Great Comey interview by Maddow. Comey says he commissioned a probe of leaks to Giuliani by the NYC field office but was fired before he learned the result. Now he needs to explain who told the NYT that the leaks factored into his reasoning—he now says no.
2/ So Comey is saying—bizarrely—that someone *falsely* leaked to the New York Times, the *day after* he sent his letter to Congress, that concerns about leaks from the New York field office were critical to Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton case. Who leaked that, and *why*?
3/ Comey's reply—leaks were irrelevant to my letter to Congress—echoes him being unwilling to say Clinton would be a better POTUS than Trump and his flailing defenses of the FBI. He may *think* he's being honest; he's playing politics. I don't think he even admits it to himself.
4/ Remember, too, that Comey won't/can't discuss why nothing was done on the Clinton case from October 3 to 26—and why he gave it no attention and (perhaps) McCabe didn't or was expecting others to. That's the *other* NYC field office shenanigan we'll hear more about eventually.
