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James Comey Does a Mrs. Clinton, Mishandles Classified Information

James Comey, fired head of the FBI appears to be either ignorant of or apathetic to the laws he was sworn to uphold, from Hill [1]:

More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information,

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This revelation raises the possibility that Comey broke his own agency’s rules and ignored the same security protocol that he publicly criticized Hillary Clinton

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Comey testified last month he considered the memos to be personal documents and that he shared at least one of them with a Columbia University lawyer friend. He asked that lawyer to leak information from one memo to the news media in hopes of increasing pressure to get a special prosecutor named in the Russia case after Comey was fired as FBI director.

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FBI policy forbids any agent from releasing classified information or any information from ongoing investigations or sensitive operations without prior written permission, and mandates that all records created during official duties are considered to be government property.

Mr. Comey argued that Mrs. Clinton was not guilty of mishandling classified information because she had no criminal intent. That is to say Mrs. Clinton was, and is, too stupid to understand her actions were felonious. Maybe Mr. Comey will argue that his false testimony to Congress that his records of his work conversations with the President were his personal property was also not a crime, because He too was too stupid to understand the very law he was sworn to uphold and defend.