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BREAKING
Justice Dept. Investigating Years-Old Leaks and Appears Focused on Comey
An inquiry into years-old disclosures of classified information is highly unusual and leaves law enforcement officials open to accusations of politicizing their work.
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Law enforcement officials are scrutinizing at least two news articles about the F.B.I. and Mr. Comey, published in The New York Times and The Washington Post in 2017, that mentioned the Russian government document, according to the people familiar with the investigation. Hackers working for Dutch intelligence officials obtained the document and provided it to the F.B.I., and both its existence and the collection of it were highly classified secrets, the people said.
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The investigation into the leaks began in recent months, the people said, but it is not clear whether prosecutors have impaneled a grand jury or how many witnesses they have interviewed. What prompted the inquiry is also unclear, but the Russian document was mentioned in a book published last fall, “Deep State: Trump, the F.B.I., and the Rule of Law” by James B. Stewart, a Times reporter.
A lawyer for Mr. Comey declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for the United States attorney’s office in Washington.
article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/us/politics/leak-investigation-james-comey.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=20390&user_id=75ee940ebe2fd3e9d0a6bb93cf283302®i_id=16112385
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