” (he should have had enough brains to know that the FBI wasn’t ‘fishing’ at that point).”
Covert meetings and correspondence with reporters 1,2,3,4 including one romantic fair going on for years!
Perhaps more than one “romantic affair”. Reporter Marianna Sotomayor is a moderately cute, recent graduate. The other two reporters are male, but perhaps they supplied cute “assistants” once they understood the price for access.
The bigger concern is whether foreign intelligence also played the game. This could wind up really big.