when he decided to give memos to a friend in the hopes they would be shared with the media. ...Author of the article cannot be trusted. From the report, " Comey instructed Richman to share the contents of Memo 4, but not the Memo itself, with a specific reporter for The New York Times."
The story being reported at the time was that the NYT never saw the memos, but simply accepted what was being read to them over the phone by this Richman jerk.
That one piece of information demonstrates a reckless disregard for even the most basic standards of half-assed journalism. No confirmation of sources, no confirmation of the accuracy of the information that was being READ to them, and — remarkably — NO VERIFICATION THAT THE MEMOS EVEN EXISTED AT ALL.