Fox News: Clapper Urged Comey to Brief Trump on Salacious Details of the Dossier

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HERRIDGE: "Thank you, Martha. Tonight that she was on the other foot with Fox News confirming that Comey is under investigation for leaking the memos, whether he might handle classified information, as well as in communication to outside the FBI including contacts with reporters. As you mentioned, another former senior intelligence officer who oversaw the 17 intelligence agencies, director of national intelligence James clapper, also under the microscope. In the memos, Comey writes, that it was clapper who told him to privately briefly incoming president about the unverified salacious claims in a trump dossier just before the inauguration. Comey wrote, “I said media like CNN had the men were looking for a new smoke. I said it was important that we not give them the excuse whether the FBI has the material. I said it was inflammatory stuff, they would give helpful reporting straight up from the source reported rate” house intelligence committee Republicans found that clapper provided inconsistent testimony about his contacts with the media. Comey disagreed, saying you talk to media but only after he left government and we’ll know a lot more soon because that report will soon be public. Of the 15 page memos, documented by Comey, eight contain classified information, highly sensitive or confidential level. That seems to be at odds with Comey’s congressional testimony after he was fired by the president."