... but he said otherwise while under oath.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/22/public-accounts-by-friends-show-james-comey-leaked-while-fbi-director/
James Comey may have misled senators on May 3, when he testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had never been an anonymous source in news reports related to the Russia investigation.
By that time, he had already leaked several private conversations he had with President Trump to his friend Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of the blog Lawfare and former editorial writer for the Washington Post.
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From those reports, it appears that Comey told both Wittes and Richman about the conversations while he was FBI director, potentially for the purpose of later leaking to the media.
Despite the leaking, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, six days before he was fired, that he had "never" been an anonymous news source on "matters relating to" the investigation on the Trump campaign.
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