The DOJ's internal watchdog, which probed Comey's handling of the sensitive documents, found that Comey's friend leaked the contents of the memo to a reporter from The New York Times, but that it did not contain classified information.
According an Office of the Inspector General report released Thursday, Comey violated DOJ and FBI policies, as well as the FBI's employment agreement, by keeping copies of four of his memos in a personal safe and asking a law professor friend to make one memo public after Trump fired him in May 2017.
"Perhaps never in the history of our Country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced and excoriated than James Comey in the just released Inspector General’s Report," Trump said. Perhaps never in the history of our Country has someone been more thoroughly disgraced and excoriated than James Comey in the just released Inspector General’s Report.
In June 2017 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey said he chose to share the existence of his memos publicly after Trump tweeted that May that Comey "better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Comey was generally well-liked within the FBI, and his sudden dismissal shocked many FBI agents, who admired Comey for his political independence. Agents were stunned that Comey was fired in the midst of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
There is only one Golden Globe-nominated season of The Comey Rule available on Netflix and Showtime right now. The TV series consists of two entries with a total runtime of 210 minutes.
Comey received a three million dollar payout from Bridgewater, his net worth estimated at 14 million dollars.
In an unlikely license to Netflix, Showtime's mini-series The Comey Rule is coming to Netflix in the United States (other regions to be confirmed) on September 28th, 2021. Rewinding the clock back to 2016, The Comey Rule is a 2 episode limited series release on Showtime in 2020.