There were a total of seven memos prepared by Comey after
his nine conversations with Trump. Four of those memos are marked as classified
at the “secret” or “confidential” level, officials told the Hill.
It’s true that “the former FBI director’s personal memos
detailing private conversations with President Trump contained … secret
information,” as the Fox report summarizes, though not, apparently, top secret
material. (The levels
of classifications go “confidential,” “secret” and then “top secret.”)
But the wording on that Fox report is misleading. The memos contained
classified information is true when considering the memos as a group.
It is not true, though, that eachmemo contained classified
information — or, at least, it’s not true that each memo was marked as being
classified.
This issue came up during
Comey’s June testimony, at which point Comey made clear that the memo he
gave to his friend to leak, documenting a
meeting on Feb. 14 of this year, was not one that included classified material.
I'd like to think I can get to the point of anticipating the wingnuttia.
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