As you'll no doubt recall, during former FBI Director James Comey's congressional testimony he claimed that he “understood" his memos to be nothing more than his "recollection recorded of my conversation with the president." Comey said that, "As a private citizen," he thought it was "important to get it out.” So, he decided to leak at least one of his memos to the press.
Unfortunately for Comey, a new report at The Hill indicates that there were seven of these "personal memos." Of them, four contained classified material, and ALL of them were "government documents." As such, their removal is a direct violation of 18 USC 1924, which forbids the "Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material."
More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information, according to interviews with officials familiar with the documents.