12 Jul 2017 10:43 pm
Not the one that was leaked.roadkill » 12 Jul 2017 5:34 pm » wrote:"Comey’s private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material"
BY JOHN SOLOMON - 07/09/17 08:12 PM EDT
http://thehill.com/policy/national-secu ... classified
Got it?Trump and Fox News Think Comey Leaked Classified Information. Did He?
From the Hill:
Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a friend.
He asked that friend, a lawyer at Columbia University, to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.
Comey insisted in his testimony he believed his personal memos were unclassified, though he hinted one or two documents he created might have been contained [sic] classified information.
“I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership,” he testified about the one memo he later leaked about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Contrary to the implication of both Trump’s tweet and the Fox & Friends segment, nowhere in the report does the Hill claim that Comey actually gave classified information to his friend at Columbia.
The report merely states that most of the memos Comey wrote were marked as containing some classified information when they were recently shown to Congress.
In fact, the Hill’s John Solomon noted that it’s unclear whether the classified information in the memos was classified at the time the memos were written and Politico’s Austin Wright reports Monday afternoon that some of Comey’s memos were indeed classified only retroactively.
The bottom line is that we don't know what exactly Comey gave to his friend, how much of it is classified, or when it was classified.
The article doesn't say that he gave his friend a classified document.
It says that some of the memos he handed over to Congress were marked classified.
Comey testified that the memo that was leaked was prepared in an unclassified manner.
COMEY: “I immediately prepared an unclassified memo of the conversation about Flynn and discussed the matter with FBI senior leadership,” he testified about the one memo he later leaked about former national security adviser Michael Flynn.