[Cboldt]

COLLINS: And finally, did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the Department of Justice?

COMEY: Yes.

COLLINS: And to whom did you show copies?

COMEY: I asked -- the president tweeted on Friday, after I got fired, that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, because it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might be a tape.

And my judgment was, I needed to get that out into the public square. And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a close friend of mine to do it.

Comey Hearing June 8, 2017 - NYT

[The Westerner]

It did not occur to Comey, before, during or after his chat with the President of the United States that their conversation was recorded!?

I hope this is a lie, because if not, the inheritor of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI is either dementing or shockingly inept.