FBI: Agents retrieve 'missing' evidence from James Comey's home

James Comey (FBI photo)

Hillary Clinton, while U.S. secretary of state for Barack Obama, kept emails with classified information on an unsecure server in her home.

James Comey, who was FBI director at the time, didn't do that.

But he kept memos with classified information in his home.

We know because the FBI revealed that's where it obtained them, according to government watchdog Judicial Watch.

The organization said Wednesday it obtained, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, pages of records from the FBI showing that in June 2017, shortly after he was fired, agents visited Comey's home. They collected as evidence four memos that allegedly detail conversations he had with President Trump.

"These extraordinary FBI docs further confirm that James Comey should never have had FBI files on President Trump at his home and that the FBI failed to secure and protect these private and classified files," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "Mr. Comey's illegal leaking these FBI files as part of his vendetta against President Trump (directly resulting in the corrupt appointment of Robert Mueller) ought to be the subject of a criminal investigation."

It was only a day after the FBI was at Comey's home that the FBI director testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he leaked memos of his conversations with President Trump "because (he) thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."

It was Columbia University Law professor Daniel Richman, a friend of Comey's, who turned over copies of the memos to investigators, bypassing a request by Congress.

Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017. Judicial Watch said the memos were collected on June 7 and were dated Feb. 14, March 30, April 11 and "last night."

"The FBI documents also revealed that Comey recalled writing two other memos after conversations with Trump that he claimed were 'missing,'" Judicial Watch said.

An FBI document shows the agents "collected memorandums (memos) as evidence from James Comey at his residence."

The records came to Judicial Watch in a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department that sought all records of communications relating to Comey providing memoranda of his conversations with Trump to special counsel Robert Mueller and his team.

Noted Judicial Watch: "The Justice Department previously argued to the court in a separate case that Comey's leak of the memo regarding former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was unauthorized and compared it to WikiLeaks. Comey admitted to Congress regarding the 'Flynn' memo, 'I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter [for The New York Times] … I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.' The New York Times published a report about the memo on May 16, 2017. Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed the following day."

Further, the Hill reported sources familiar with the Comey documents said more than half of the memos were determined to contain classified information.