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Originally Posted by Delgar
While I'm behind Comey and against Trump, Comey should not have leaked. That's the only mistake he made IMHO. It was meant to be a confidential meeting. Not classified, but confidential. All he needed to do was make notes (the memo as he did) and make sure its in the hands of senior members of his department (which he also did) to ensure there is corroboration he made the notes right after the meeting to preserve his memory.
The leak was unnecessary. Other than that, Comey came across as a really great director of the FBI.
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There was no political impetus. Remember, at this point all we had was a crumbling house committee and a Senate committee with Terri part time staffers working on it. There was no special prosecutor and Nunes and sessions were controlling things even though they'd recused themselves