Comey Pal Responds to Trump Tweet About 'Illegal' Leaks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump went after former FBI director James Comey on Twitter Monday, accusing him of breaking the law by leaking classified information to the news media.

But that isn't true, according to Comey's friend, Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman, who received some of the memos and shared some elements with reporters.

At issue is a report in The Hill newspaper stating that more than half of the memos Comey wrote about his conversations with Donald Trump were determined to contain classified material.

The report appeared to prompt a tweet from Trump, saying what Comey had done was "so illegal."

Link to tweet

No evidence has surfaced supporting that charge. Three of the memos were classified from the beginning, and were never shared with Richman, the professor tells NBC News.

Of the remaining four, a small portion — much less than half — has been retroactively deemed classified, said a Congressional source familiar with the matter.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/comey-pal-responds-to-trump-tweet-about-illegal-leaks/ar-BBE9iz5?ocid=edgsp

[YCHDT]

1. "retroactively deemed classified"...GOP and their double talk

[brush]

7. "Retroactively classified". Let's see, where have I heard that before?

Oh yes, it's coming back to me. During Comey's July 16 presser where he chastised Hillary, her defense was that the emails in question were "retroactively classified", meaning they were classified after being shared in emails.

Now look who's using that defense.

[Gothmog]

2. There were no illegal leaks

[Mr. Ected]

3. Trump's base is tiring of anti-Obama, anti-Hillary rhetoric. They want new red meat.

Now serving, the Comey Burger.

The first sacrificial lamb burger of alt-right Fascinistas.

[Stuart G]

8. Ah...a new term...."the Comey Burger" ...new red meat....well said...nt

[riversedge]

4. k for visibility

[lapucelle]

5. "Retroactively classifed"...

Schadenfreude.

[blueinredohio]

6. At least if he did leak classified info it was to Americans not russians