Apparently, Kash Patel just discovered Daniel Richman, the guy who leaked information on behalf of James Comey; and along with that name from the past, someone in the Kash Patel office decided they wanted to highlight the 8-year-old FBI investigation about the FBI hunting for internal leakers.
Patel sends John Solomon the information on Daniel Richman. Solomon repackages the information and sells it as new bombshells. I’m not sure what these guys are doing, but Richman is a well known name from the past, when James Comey made the unsolicited announcement, a self-admission in 2017 about his use of Richman to leak to the New York Times.
SEE Solomon Article HERE – READ the FBI Information HERE
If you find something new about Daniel Richman and his leaking for Comey, let me know. So far, it seems like something we discussed and outlined years ago being repackaged for Tick-Tock promotion.
The story of James Comey using Daniel Richman is old news. Even OIG Michael Horowitz investigated the FBI leaks and wrote a report about it.
SEE Richman article from 2018 – SEE Richman article from 2017 – See Richman article from 2019
In 2018, Congressman Jim Jordan made mention of the issue where James Comey had a special employee on assignment ‘off-the-books’. People started asking questions, and Fox News’ Catherine Herridge detailed how Daniel Richman held special access privileges to the FBI, as an outcome of former FBI Director James Comey authorizing his friend as a “Special Government Employee” or SGE.
2018 – The professor, Daniel Richman, confirmed the special status in response to an inquiry from Fox News, while referring other questions, including on the scope of his work, to the FBI.
“I did indeed have SGE status with the Bureau (for no pay),” Richman wrote in an email.
Richman emerged last year as the former FBI director’s contact for leaking memos documenting his private discussions with President Trump – memos that are now the subject of an inspector general review over the presence of classified material. Sources familiar with Richman’s status at the FBI told Fox News that he was assigned to “special projects” by Comey, and had a security clearance as well as badge access to the building. Richman’s status was the subject of a Memorandum of Understanding. (read more)
Daniel Richman is part of the Lawfare association and close friends with Benjamin Wittes, another of Comey’s tribe. Remember the little cannon Wittes would use during Andrew Weissmann’s Trump-Russia investigation?
ARCTIC HAZE
(U//……….. Date: 09/15/2017
(U//……….. Report: Notification of Opening of Full Investigation
(U//……….. Preliminary Investigation (PI) Single subject
(U//……….. FBIHQ/DOJ notice via Letter Head Memorandum (LHM) required if Full on US Person (USPER)
I. Purpose of the Investigation:
(U//………… Purpose for which the investigation is being initiated, as per Attorney General’s Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations (AGG-Dom) II.B.1 and Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) §§6.2 and 7.2:
To detect, obtain information about, or prevent, or protect against federal crimes or threats to the national security.
II. Predication for the Investigation:
Appropriate circumstances: Check the appropriate circumstance(s) on which the initiation of the Preliminary Investigation or Full Investigation is based, as per AGG-Dom II.B.3 and DIOG Sections 6.5 and 7.5:
(U//……….. An activity constituting a federal crime or a threat to the national security has or may have occurred, is or may be occurring, or will or may occur and the investigation may obtain information relating to the activity or the involvement or role of an individual, group, or organization in such activity;
Factual Predication:
According to a Letterhead Memorandum (LHM), dated 01 August 2017, from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Security Division, Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES), ………… , dated 23 June 2017, from ………………….., reported the unauthorized disclosure of classified information in eight articles published between April and June 2017. Subject matter experts determined the articles disclosed ………… information classified up to the ………. level.
III. Sensitive Investigative Matter(s):
A member of the media or a news organization (unless excepted in DIOG Appendix G, Section G)
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On 09/08/2021, FBIHQ and Department of Justice provided concurrence to close Arctic Haze investigation.
CONCLUSION
(U//……….. The investigation has not yielded sufficient evidence to criminally charge any person, including Comey or Richman, with making false statements or with the substantive offenses under investigation.
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(U//……….. Factual Predication:
…………………. FBI Washington Field Office (WFO) opened the Arctic Haze investigation based on a …………………. …………………. …………………. dated June 23, 2017.
The …………………. related that a New York Times article contained classified information (hereinafter “the Classified Information”) held by ………………….. .
The article was titled “Comey Tried to Shield the FBI from Politics. Then He Shaped an Election” which was published on April 22, 2017.
The article was written by New York Times reporters Matt Apuzzo, Michael Schmidt, Adam Goldman, and Eric Lichtblau.
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…………………. The article discussed the FBI Midyear Exam investigation concerning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. In particular, the article focused on FBI Director James Comey’s (Comey) decision to make public statements regarding the Midyear Exam investigation. On July 5, 2016, Comey issued a public statement announcing the FBI had completed the Midyear Exam investigation.
His public statement, which was made unilaterally, and in a manner the United States Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (U.S. DOJ OIG) later found to be in violation of long-standing Department policy, criticized Clinton for uncharged conduct concerning the handling of classified information, and recommended the Department decline prosecution.
Later, Comey made additional unilateral statements to Congress about re-opening and then again closing the Midyear Exam investigation in October 2016, just prior to the presidential election.
This second set of statements was also criticized in the public and by the DOJ OIG.
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…………………. Comey has publicly indicated on several occasions that classified information contributed to his decision to make his independent July 5, 2016 and October 2016 announcements.
Comey provided sworn testimony to the U.S. DOJ OIG and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Comey testified he made the July 5, 2016 announcement independently because he believed participation by Attorney General (“AG”) Loretta Lynch would result in “corrosive doubt” about whether Lynch was acting impartially.
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Comey provided several justifications for this belief.
First, Lynch was appointed by a President from the same political party as Clinton.
Second, Lynch had earlier directed Comey to refer to Midyear Exam as a “matter,” not an investigation.
Third, Lynch had a widely publicized private conversation with former-President William Clinton during an apparent chance encounter on the tarmac of a Phoenix, Arizona airport on June 26, 2016.
And fourth, Comey had concerns the Classified Information, which directly related to whether or not the Attorney General should have been recused from the Midyear Exam investigation, would be leaked to the media or would otherwise be disclosed.
Comey stated, “One significant item I can’t, I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been some public accounts of it, which are nonsense, but I understand the committee’s been briefed on the classified facts.”
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(U//……….. Comey alluded to the Classified Information in his book, “Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.”
According to Comey, there was a development in early 2016 concerning some classified information that had come into the possession of the United States government.
According to Comey, the information came from a classified source, which remains classified, and it is still unknown to the American public.
“Had it become public, the unverified material would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the Attorney General’s independence in connection to the Clinton investigation.”
Comey wrote he was “bothered that there was classified information that would someday become public and used to attack the integrity of the investigation and, more important, call into question the independence of the FBI.”
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(….. //…………. In classified testimony to the OIG, Comey confirmed the specific Classified Information, which was discussed in the New York Times article, and indicated it did impact his decision to make unilateral, public statements about the Midyear Exam investigation.
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