NSA whistleblower defends leaking to press amid Comey revelation
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday to defend his leak of classified surveillance documents to the press in 2013.
Comey, who allegedly kept detailed notes of his encounters with President Trump prior to being fired last month, admitted to giving an associate permission to leak details of those memos to the media.
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Now that Comey is in the same league as Snowden will the treatment be the same?
Comey didn't leak anything confidential. He gave his non-confidential memos to a confidant so that they could be passed on to the press. If you wrote an op-ed and then got it published in a newspaper (or newsblog) you wouldn't say that you leaked your writings....
The papers were not his to leak. They were government papers. How do you know they were not confidential since they were supposedly conversations between him and the President. Those conversations are confidential if he documented the complete conversations since classified statements were made during this time.
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