Trump’s Unfounded Leak Claim
by Robert Farley
Jul 10, 2017
4 minutes
President Donald Trump made the unfounded accusation that former FBI Director James Comey illegally “leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media.” His claim appears to have been based on a news story that makes no such determination.
on July 9 that four of seven memos Comey wrote about his conversations with the president contained classified information. One of the seven memos was shared with a friend, who leaked the information to the media at Comey’s direction, the former FBI director has said. But despite Trump’s tweet, the report — which is based on anonymous officials “familiar with the documents” — does not say whether the memo shared with the friend was among those deemed
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