re: Geraldo on Fox just stated that Trump Admin plans to file complaints with The DOJ & IG

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Comey previously spoke out strongly against leaks to the media, as we previously noted. The original post from May 17 follows:

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“I've spent most of my career trying to figure out unauthorized disclosures and where they came from,” Comey said in congressional testimony March 20. “It's very, very hard.”

In that same hearing, before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey spoke at length about his disdain for leaks. He said that “any unauthorized disclosure of classified conversations or documents is potentially a violation of law and a serious, serious problem.”

He said that “a lot” of information leaked to the media “is just dead wrong.”

He also seemed to endorse the view that Trump has been hit by more leaks than his predecessors and even flirted with support for the president's claim that reporters make things up, when he said this: “It does strike me there's been a lot of people talking — or, at least, reporters saying people are talking to them — in ways that have struck me as unusually active.”

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These are words that could come back to haunt Comey — especially the words that were designed to cast doubt on the veracity of news reports based on leaks. If Comey were to attempt to hurt Trump by leaking information, his effort could only be effective if people were to trust the ensuing press coverage. Comey has told the public — quite recently — that reports based on leaks should be eyed skeptically.

Comey testified again May 3, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and had this exchange with Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa):

GRASSLEY: Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
COMEY: Never.
GRASSLEY: Question two, relatively related, have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?

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Comey's testimony in March suggested that he has not softened in the past 12 years. “I do think it should be investigated aggressively,” he said of leaks, “and, if possible, prosecuted so people take as a lesson, this is not okay. This behavior can be deterred, and it's deterred by locking some people up who have engaged in criminal activity.”

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