That is a neutral description, but Mr. Trump on Friday used the term in a way that was clearly intended to carry pejorative connotations: “He’s a leaker,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Comey at a news conference. Sometimes former officials, without authorization, publish memoirs recounting high-level internal conversations, or officials blurt out secret information at a congressional hearing. “If we define authorization as coming from the White House, Comey looks more like a leak than a plant,” Mr. Pozen said. Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.”But Mr. Comey specifically testified that he did not include classified information in the memos he shared. The president’s lawyers are said to be planning to file a complaint with the Justice Department’s inspector general next week arguing that Mr. Comey had improperly disclosed what they deemed privileged communications.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2017 00:06 UTC