“I can’t understand it,” said Comey, who appeared to grimace at the mention of Nunes’ name. “I’m sure there is some story he tells himself that tries to make sense of it all, but I can’t explain it.”

ormer FBI Director James Comey sat idly by on Friday while his friend, Benjamin Wittes, made a comparison between House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency analyst who stole and leaked classified government documents.

During an event Brookings Institution hosted, Benjamin Wittes asked Comey about a recent battle between Nunes and the Justice Department over records related to a top secret source who has reportedly provided information about President Donald Trump’s campaign to the FBI, CIA and the special counsel’s office.

Nunes has requested documents related to the mysterious source, but the Justice Department has pushed back, claiming that revealing the information could put the source’s life at risk and expose intelligence community methods. House Republicans, including Speaker Paul Ryan, have backed Nunes’ push, arguing the Intelligence Committee has a right to view the records.

Ryan told reporters on Thursday the request is “wholly appropriate.”

Wittes and Comey clearly disagree.

“[Nunes] is affirmatively acting in a fashion that some of us judged Edward Snowden very harshly for, right, for behaving in a fashion that puts at risk intelligence sources and methods…when being told by senior levels of the Justice Department,” said Wittes, who operates Lawfare, a blog Brookings hosts.

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