As FBI Director, Comey Asked For Probe Of Possible Leaks To People ‘Like Rudy Giuliani’

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Former FBI Director James Comey testified to the House Oversight and Judiciary committees Friday that he was concerned in late 2016 “that there appeared to be in the media a number of stories that might have been based on communications reporters or nonreporters like Rudy Giuliani were having with people in the [FBI’s] New York field office.”

The Wall Street Journal first noted the exchange in a report Saturday night. Read Comey’s testimony about Giuliani below: 

 

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