CBS Panel Lauds Comey Leaking Memo: ‘This Is How Washington Works’

‘It’s not - it’s not clean, it doesn’t look pretty, but it’s what happens day to day her’

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O’KEEFE: "Yeah, and I just - I thought it was fascinating how quickly everyone in Trump’s orbit seized on the idea that he’s a leaker. There is nothing inherently illegal about somebody sharing information with a reporter or leaking it, unless it’s classified, and it looks like there may be an FBI policy that he violated by taking his work product home and then sharing it with a reporter. But, regardless, it wasn’t classified information. This is how Washington works, at least the old way. And I thought that was one of the most brilliant moments of the whole thing because it was really transparently describing to people at home, literally, this is how this works. You know, you see it in the paper. 'This is what I did to make that happen.' And I think the other important thing here is, he put into the public record now months of reports about how the President behaves as a boss. You wrote about this for 'The Atlantic,' that this was an HR document, essentially, and he was confirming a lot of what we heard about the way the President works. And the idea that people are fearful of confronting him in the moment about this stuff that, for whatever reason, he is intimidating, or he, you know, somehow exudes something that stops people from telling him, 'Sir, that’s not a good idea.'"
 

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