Article snippet: Posted at 9:00 pm on July 9, 2017 by streiff Let’s take a quick trip back to former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8. He had this exchange with Senator Roy Blunt: When Comey personal memos on meetings with Trump were made known, several observers, myself among them made two points. First, the memos were clearly government documents as defined by the Federal Records Act. You had one federal employee writing an aide memoire concerning a conversation he had with another member of the federal government about matters involving his official duties. The meeting took place while both officials were on duty. The meeting took place in a government office. The memo was written on a government provided computer while the individual writing it sat in a government card, driven by a government driver, and most likely with at government bodyguard. Some of the memos were discussed with subordinates of the author during duty hours in a government office. In short, if there was ever such a thing as a government document, Comey’s memos were that thing. The second point was that the memos almost certainly contained classified information because of the nature of the discussions. They were certainly classified at the For Official Use Only level simply because they were private conversations between an agency head and the president. This is just one of those I-told-you-so moments. Via The Hill: This in not shocking. It was obvio... Link to the full article to read more
Two Surprising Facts About James Comey's Memos Contradict His Senate Testimony
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