Matt Taibbi
“Comey was a key player in the production and dissemination of phony evidence that created a false national security crisis in which the world was led to believe a sitting president was a stooge of Vladimir Putin. There is no “free speech absolutist” alive who’d count perjury and classified leaks as protected First Amendment activity. In Comey’s case there’s the additional novelty of classifying false information that was then leaked, to produce a desired political effect. This was comprehensive abuse of federal investigative machinery, and Trump was not the only victim. If there was such a thing as defamation of the entire United States, Comey would be liable.”
https://www.racket.news/p/jim-comey-a-man-of-many-faces-none