[UPDATE BELOW] IT TOOK THEM UNTIL NOW TO FINALLY NOTICE ALL THE TORPEDOES CIRCLING BACK?
The New York Times just published an opinion by Daniel Richman titled ‘The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released’ pic.twitter.com/TPF4cLLu3n
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 23, 2026
More from Ed Morrissey: NYT Disclosure Fail.
I thought the name on this column sounded familiar. Richman is a friend of Comey’s who had possession of memos by Comey that the former FBI Director had leaked through him as a way to force the appointment of a special counsel in 2017. Judicial Watch discovered the deception in 2019 after going to court over a FOIA demand:
On June 8, 2017, Comey 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.” Columbia University Law professor Daniel Richman, a friend of Comey’s, reportedly“turned over copies of the former FBI director’s explosive memos … to the FBI, sidestepping a request by congressional committees to deliver the materials to Capitol Hill.”
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.
Interestingly, neither Richman nor Comey disclose this connection in this column, even though Richman specifically cites the Comey prosecution in his argument. Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Hmmmm, indeed.