{"id":311930,"date":"2017-06-09T00:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snowden-on-comey-it-seems-the-fbi-director-agrees-with-leaking\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T23:40:40","slug":"snowden-on-comey-it-seems-the-fbi-director-agrees-with-leaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/snowden-on-comey-it-seems-the-fbi-director-agrees-with-leaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden on Comey: \u2018It Seems the FBI Director Agrees\u2019 with Leaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>NSA whistleblower defends leaking to press amid Comey revelation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mikael Thalen<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>June 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p>NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday to defend his leak of classified surveillance documents to the press in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Comey, who allegedly kept detailed notes of his encounters with President Trump prior to being fired last month, admitted to giving an associate permission to leak details of those memos to the media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bl1uIFefRKo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President tweeted on Friday, after I got fired, that I better hope there\u2019s not tapes,\u201d Comey said. \u201cI woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night, because it didn\u2019t dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arguing that he wanted to get his version of events provided to the public, Comey stated that he asked a friend, now confirmed to be Columbia law professor Daniel C. Richman, to \u201cshare the content of the memo with a reporter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel, so I asked a close friend of mine to do it,\u201d Comey added.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden took to Twitter to point out how Comey allegedly felt he had a moral obligation to leak to the press, drawing parallels between himself and the former FBI director.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It seems the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FBI\">@FBI<\/a> Director agrees: sometimes the only moral decision is to break the rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1V6xROs9y\">https:\/\/t.co\/j1V6xROs9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden\/status\/872850661288890369\">June 8, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt seems the FBI Director agrees: sometimes the only moral decision is to break the rules,\u201d Snowden said.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet proved controversial among both defenders and opponents of Comey, with Twitter users on both sides of the aisle arguing the validity of the comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Other prominent figures including WikiLeaks founder&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/snowden-on-comey-it-seems-the-fbi-director-agrees-with-leaking.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSA whistleblower defends leaking to press amid Comey revelation Mikael ThalenPrison Planet.comJune 8, 2017 NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee Thursday to defend his leak of classified surveillance documents to the press in 2013. 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