DOJ Investigating @Comey’s Role in Leak of Classified Doc During Clinton-Email Probe nationalreview.com/news/departmen…
Department of Justice prosecutors are reportedly investigating the possibility that Comey leaked a classified Russian intelligence document to the media during the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to a Thursday report from the New York Times.
Per the Times, the investigation is centered around two 2017 articles from the Times and WaPo describing the Russian document, which played a key role in Comey’s unilateral decision to announce in July 2016 that the FBI would not pursue charges against Clinton.
The document, which was shared with the U.S. by Dutch intelligence, includes an analysis of an email exchange between Representative @DWStweets, who was then chairing the @DNC, and Leonard Bernardo, an official with the Soros-backed non-profit Open Society Foundations.
Wasserman-Schultz assures Bernardo in the email that then-attorney general Loretta Lynch will make sure Clinton wasn’t charged in the email probe.
Both Bernardo and Wasserman Schultz have denied ever having the exchange, and the FBI’s assessment claimed that the document was a fake and part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
Investigators are examining whether Comey’s personal lawyer, Daniel Richman, gave the Russian document to reporters. Richman played a key role in a different, confirmed leak that Comey orchestrated to hand over memos of his private encounters with Trump.
In August, Horowitz found that Comey violated policy and set a “dangerous example” for the rank-and-file by retaining and leaking the memos. Horowitz referred Comey for potential prosecution over the matter, but the DOJ declined to prosecute.
