Comey basically explained how he leaked:
On the subject of leaks: James Comey, Mike Rogers Testify on Wiretapping Russian election interference. 03/20/2017
Representative KING: ...I think it was on January 6, when yourself, Admiral Rogers, Director Brennan, and General Clapper went to Trump tower to meet with President Trump. The media reports are that at the end of that meeting, Director Comey, you presented president-elect Trump with a copy of the now infamous or famous dossier. And I don’t know how many people were in the room, but within hours, that was leaked to the media and that gave the media the excuse or the rationale to publish almost the entire dossier.
Do you — does that violate any law? I mean you were at a classified briefing with the president-elect of the United States and it had to be a very, very small universe of people who knew that you handed them that dossier and it was leaked out within hours. Are you making any effort to find out who leaked it and do you believe that constitute a criminal violation?
COMEY: I can’t say, Mr. King except I can answer in general.
KING: Yes.
COMEY: Any unauthorized disclosure of classified conversations or documents is potentially a violation of law and a serious, serious problem. I’ve spent most of my career trying to figure out unauthorized disclosures and where they came from. It’s very, very hard.
Often times, it doesn’t come from the people who actually know the secrets. It comes from one hop out, people who heard about it or were told about it. And that’s the reason so much information that reports to be accurate classified information is actually wrong in the media. Because the people who heard about it didn’t hear about it right. But, it is an enormous problem whenever you find information that is actually classified in the media.
We don’t talk about it because we don’t wanna confirm it, but I do think it should be investigated aggressively and if possible, prosecuted so people take as a lesson, this is not OK. This behavior can be deterred and its deterred by locking some people up who have engaged in criminal activity.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/full-transcript-fbi-dire…/…;
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YBkKl8cBO8
see 2:12:30 mark for the above words.
Watch the two men behind Comey exchange looks when King brings up the infamous dossier being leaked.
Good observation- that's about the only time they even moved. Comey's eye did a little twitching in that exchange, too.
Amazing how much importance the Dems put on the Ukraine now that it was lost on Obama’s watch than they actually put on it when it was being lost. Their presstitutes barely covered it... as I recall they gave more coverage to the screwup of Georgia when Bush was still prez.
One of the first things Obama did was trash the missile defense deal Bush made with those countries.
Then they made fun of Romney’s warning about Russia and pooh poohed that.
Now they want Trump to be crucified for making dumb comments about Ukraine even as the Obama admin weakness and dithering was inviting Putin to keep grabbing everything in reach.
As if “red line” Obama would have done anything different to change the outcome...