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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRWers tweeting again that Comey leaked classified info. Elisha Cummings corrects that.
Tweet from Politico's Kyle Cheny:
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Rep. Elijah Cummings: The documents from DOJ "confirms that the memo Director Comey said he shared with a friend to read to press outletsthe memo detailing his meeting with President Trump on February 14, 2017is clearly marked 'UNCLASSIFIED.'"
Politico article (cowritten by Kyle Cheney) about this from last July:
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/10/james-comey-memos-retroactively-classified-240362
James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media, Trump said on Twitter. That is so illegal!
At issue are a series of memos Comey wrote before Trump fired him on May 9, cataloguing his meetings and phone calls with Trump.
In one of those memos, Comey described what he believed to be pressure from Trump to back off an investigation into Trump ally and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey recounted the conversation with Trump which occurred in the Oval Office in February during testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in May.
Richman's comment also comes after a report that indicated some of the details in Comey's memos appear to have been classified.
But a source with knowledge of the memos said several of them appear to have been "retroactively classified," and it's unclear whether any of those details were shared with anyone without a proper clearance.
The source said it was also unclear whether the memos that were retroactively classified included one in which Comey says Trump encouraged him to end the FBIs investigation into Flynn. That's the memo that Richman described to the Times and that he says was not classified at the time he shared its contents.
At issue are a series of memos Comey wrote before Trump fired him on May 9, cataloguing his meetings and phone calls with Trump.
In one of those memos, Comey described what he believed to be pressure from Trump to back off an investigation into Trump ally and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey recounted the conversation with Trump which occurred in the Oval Office in February during testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee in May.
Richman's comment also comes after a report that indicated some of the details in Comey's memos appear to have been classified.
But a source with knowledge of the memos said several of them appear to have been "retroactively classified," and it's unclear whether any of those details were shared with anyone without a proper clearance.
The source said it was also unclear whether the memos that were retroactively classified included one in which Comey says Trump encouraged him to end the FBIs investigation into Flynn. That's the memo that Richman described to the Times and that he says was not classified at the time he shared its contents.
From Rep. Cummings' statement, that memp was NOT retroactiively classified, was never classified.
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RWers tweeting again that Comey leaked classified info. Elisha Cummings corrects that. (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Apr 2018
OP
Tell Dwump that mentioning that there are classified memos is also illegal.
LiberalFighter
Apr 2018
#3
unblock
(52,302 posts)1. Republican definition of classified:
Any conversation with Donnie as well as any email on Hillary's server.
Republican definition of unclassified: anything Donnie says, e.g., to Russians.
malaise
(269,157 posts)2. Same lying shit they tried with Hillary
They intend to use taxpayer money for bogus investigations leading up to the midterm elections.
LiberalFighter
(51,029 posts)3. Tell Dwump that mentioning that there are classified memos is also illegal.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)4. KNR Thank you!
highplainsdem
(49,027 posts)5. Matthew Miller talking about this now on The Last Word