Columbia Law School site crashes following Comey mention

Emma Kinery | USA TODAY

The Columbia Law School website crashed after former FBI Director James Comey testified at a congressional hearing that he asked a friend who is a professor at the university to leak a memo he wrote about a conversation with President Trump.

The Columbia Law School faculty page is down cuz everyone's trying to pinpoint Comey's snitch pic.twitter.com/Idmsj8zanH — Michelle Collins (@michcoll) June 8, 2017

Columbia Law's site is down at the moment. We are working on a solution. Stay tuned. — Columbia Law School (@ColumbiaLaw) June 8, 2017

The comment sent people into a fury of trying to figure out exactly who Comey was referring to.

A professor at Columbia law school's phone right now pic.twitter.com/SNC4Cm5ax5 — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 8, 2017

It didn’t take long for people to figure out that Comey was referring to Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School who states in his faculty biography that he's an adviser to Comey.

Richman, a former federal prosecutor, confirmed to the Washington Post that he was the person who Comey asked to leak his Trump meeting memos to the press.