Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Wednesday that fired FBI Director James Comey broke FBI agency protocol by giving memos to a friend to then have leaked to the press.

Washington Examiner reports:

“As a general proposition, you have to understand the Department of Justice. We take confidentiality seriously, so when we have memoranda about our ongoing matters, we have an obligation to keep that confidential,” Rosenstein said on Fox News after being asked if it would ever be proper for an FBI director to take notes on a meeting with the president and then leak them to the press. “I think it is quite clear,” he added when asked if he would approve of Comey’s leak. “It’s what we were taught, all of us prosecutors and agents.”

As TGP previously reported, more than half of the memos fired FBI Director James Comey wrote during his private conversations with President Trump have been determined to contain classified information.

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FBI policy forbids any agent from releasing classified information or any information from ongoing investigations. All records created by agents during official duties are also considered to be government property.

The Hill reports: