James Woolsey on Comey: It's "stunning that he would…give up the secrecy of a conversation with the President" https://t.co/KX9JmKUiJf
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James Woolsey on Sunday pushed back on the argument that former FBI Director James Comey was not a leaker because the information in memos he gave to a friend to pass on to The New York Times was not classified.
“Not all leaks have to be classified. There are a number of things that are extremely sensitive without needing the technical requirements needed for classification,” Woolsey, who served as CIA director under former President Bill Clinton, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
{mosads}The former FBI director revealed in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week that he passed on information found in his memos about past conversations with President Trump to a friend after Comey was fired.
“I just found it stunning that he would I think give up the secrecy of a conversation with the president of the United States,” Woolsey said on Sunday.
Trump most recently suggested during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden on Friday that there are recordings of his conversations with Comey.
The White House downplayed these claims.