CNN’s Toobin: Comey May Get in Trouble for ‘The Kind of Thing That Hillary Clinton Was Tortured About’
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin believes former FBI Director James Comey is ironically in a similar situation as Hillary Clinton in the wake of his released memos.
It was reported on Friday that two out of the seven memos Comey leaked to his friend had classified information, something DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating. Toobin drew some comparisons between what Comey may have done and what the former Secretary of State did with her emails.
“Can we talk about karma here for a second?” Toobin asked. “Remember, Comey has been saying, ‘Well, these memos weren’t marked classified so they weren’t classified.’ This is what Hillary Clinton said about her emails. But just because something isn’t marked classified, after the fact, the classification authorities who are wildly overzealous can mark things as classified and in fact based on what was released yesterday, it appears that some of the Comey memos do contain classified information. So he could wind up getting in trouble for precisely the kind of thing that Hillary Clinton was tortured about, which I think might well give satisfaction to Hillary’s people long after the fact.”
Toobin then blasted the former FBI Director for leaking his memos to his friend, who ended up sharing some of its contents with the press.
“Why was he giving these extremely sensitive––we don’t know if classified, but certainly… you know, he was doing it as a kind of protection because he wanted it leaked. But who is he to do that?” Toobin continued. “I just think Comey has a real problem here.”
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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