IG investigating Comey memos over classified information: report
By Olivia Beavers - 04/20/18 04:19 PM EDT
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is reviewing former FBI Director James Comey’s decision to provide his friend with memos that government officials now view as containing classified information, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
As FBI director, Comey had the authority to decide what information should be treated as classified in his memos, at least initially.
Comey has admitted to giving at least one of his memos to Daniel Richman, a law professor at Columbia University who leaked its contents verbally to a reporter at The New York Times.
He said he gave Richman a “single unclassified memo,†with the intention that it be leaked to the press in an effort to prompt the appointment of a special counsel — something that came to pass when the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller to that very job.
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