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Originally Posted by belsarius
If it was confidential and privileged information then the Don should have used his executive privilege. As it was unclassified information it was within the public realm of information, fully accessible under FOIA. It was more a disclosure than a leak.
A private citizen disclosed public information to the press about his conversations with the president, in the interest of the public good. Comey is a stand up guy who has some very clear moral guidelines.
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I believe he also testified that the reason he sent the information out was he was hoping it would compel the appointment of a special counsel. Which it did. When asked why he did not do it himself, he said he could not leave his house because reporters were camped in his driveway. This is the only point that I think was a bit...odd. I could email the wapo right now if I wanted to. He was also clearly not concerned about the fact of the distribution becoming public. All in all hardly compelling enough to in any way impact his credibility.