It's privileged conversation and notes concerning it are government property , not to be made public unless the gov. oks it.....
Comey committed a crime....
You hang onto that, bravs. Brighter legal minds than yours disagree.
Did Comey violate executive privilege by testifying in the Senate and disclosing his conversations with the president?
No, according to experts on executive privilege, in part because Comey is no longer an administration official. Moreover, the president may have waived any privilege by also
publicly discussing his contacts with Comey.
“Executive privilege does not apply to a private citizen who is called to testify before the Senate,” said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the school of policy and government at
George Mason University and the author of a 2010 book on executive privilege. “Trump tripped himself up, first by speaking about his conversation and by firing Comey.”
Typically, legal privileges are invoked by people who have evidence or documents that someone else is seeking. By invoking their privilege, they are saying they are refusing to turn over the material. But in this instance, Comey was a private citizen who was willing to speak to the Senate. “There is no legal prohibition on him, as a private citizen, discussing his conversations with the president,” Rozell said, so long as he was not revealing information that was classified as secret. And Comey said Thursday that he intentionally ensured that nothing in his memos about the Trump meetings contained anything that could be considered classified material
So did Comey violate any law or privilege by releasing the memo recounting his conversations with Trump?
Probably not. Several lawyers said he was free to reveal the information. But some were troubled by Comey disclosing the actual memo.
“These were unclassified notes made by Comey himself. I know of no legal bar to his releasing them to the press,” said Walter Dellinger, a former White House lawyer under President Clinton.
Lawyers pointed to the dozens of books written in which former White House aides described their times working with the president, including details about their confidential conversations. The 1st Amendment and its protection for the freedom of speech would probably stand in the way of any effort to block such a book, assuming it did not reveal classified information."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-comey-privilege-qa-20170608-htmlstory.html