Article snippet: President Trump’s personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz will file a complaint with the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General asking for an inquiry into James Comey over his leaking the details of his conversations with the president and the memos about those conversations, according to a source close to the Trump legal team. Kasowitz is also drafting a similar submission to be sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the former FBI director's Senate testimony Thursday and “other matters,” the source told ABC news. The plans come after legal experts. It would only be a crime if the information was classified, the experts told ABC News but, that said, his actions were improper and violated well-established norms. Kasowitz said Thursday, "Although Mr. Comey testified he only leaked the memos in response to a tweet, the public record reveals that the New York Times was quoting from these memos the day before the referenced tweet, which belies Mr. Comey’s excuse for this unauthorized disclosure of privileged information and appears to entirely retaliatory.” But Kasowitz's statement offers an inaccurate chronology of events. Comey was fired May 9 and Trump tweeted May 12, "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" In the hearing Thursday, Comey said he woke up "in the middle of the night on Monday night," May 15, "because it didn't dawn on me originally, there might be cor... Link to the full article to read more
Trump's legal team to file complaint with DOJ about Comey leak - ABC News
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