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===Comey leaks===
 
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On June 7, 2017 ''Vox'' reported: {{quotebox|FBI Director James B. Comey pulled aside three of the bureau’s top officials for private chats. In calm tones, he told each of them about a private Oval Office meeting with [[President Trump]]...Those three officials, according to two people with detailed, firsthand knowledge of the matter, were [[Jim Rybicki]], Comey’s chief of staff and senior counselor; James Baker, the FBI’s general counsel; and [[Andrew McCabe]], then the bureau’s deputy director, and now the acting director...<br>One senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter said that Comey specifically sought legal advice from Baker about when and how to tell the DOJ about Trump pressing Comey to shut down the Russia probe. The same official said that Comey and Baker had more than one discussion about the matter, and that Baker almost certainly made extensive notes about those deliberations.
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On June 7, 2017 ''Vox'' reported:  
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{{quotebox-float|FBI Director James B. Comey pulled aside three of the bureau’s top officials for private chats. In calm tones, he told each of them about a private Oval Office meeting with [[President Trump]]...Those three officials, according to two people with detailed, firsthand knowledge of the matter, were [[Jim Rybicki]], Comey’s chief of staff and senior counselor; James Baker, the FBI’s general counsel; and [[Andrew McCabe]], then the bureau’s deputy director, and now the acting director...<br>One senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter said that Comey specifically sought legal advice from Baker about when and how to tell the DOJ about Trump pressing Comey to shut down the Russia probe. The same official said that Comey and Baker had more than one discussion about the matter, and that Baker almost certainly made extensive notes about those deliberations.
    
Both Comey and Baker sought the advice of Rybicki and McCabe as to whether to inform the Justice Department of Trump’s pressure of Comey to shut down the Russia probe, according to this same official. All four of them had reservations about doing so because they did not fully trust [[Attorney General]] [[Jeff Sessions]] — and because the events were unprecedented in their experience.<ref>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/7/15751336/fbi-trump-russia-comey-trump-flynn</ref>}}
 
Both Comey and Baker sought the advice of Rybicki and McCabe as to whether to inform the Justice Department of Trump’s pressure of Comey to shut down the Russia probe, according to this same official. All four of them had reservations about doing so because they did not fully trust [[Attorney General]] [[Jeff Sessions]] — and because the events were unprecedented in their experience.<ref>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/7/15751336/fbi-trump-russia-comey-trump-flynn</ref>}}
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