James Comey might be pondering ‘leadership and values’ at Gettysburg

“Little Round Top, Gettysburg. Good place to think about leadership and values,” user “Reinhold Niebuhr” tweeted Thursday afternoon, showing a picture of the famous hill in Pennsylvania where Union troops successfully fended off a Confederate assault during the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War.

The tweet is notable because it is the second in two days from a suddenly active account that had been private after two reports in March, one by Gizmodo and another by the New Yorker, tied Comey to it right after Comey revealed that he was secretly on Twitter and Instagram during a dinner event. The account was then made private.

However, late Wednesday the account tweeted a picture of a kayaker on water, with the caption: “Beautiful fall day at West Point. Lone kayaker on the Hudson” — the account’s second tweet after a months-long hiatus.

Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare, who is a longtime friend of Comey’s, has avoided confirming whether the account is in fact Comey’s but has teased it and did say that he convinced the account holder to unlock it.

On Thursday, Wittes said that if the account user “is not, in fact, James Comey, this is the best gag ever for getting Twitter followers,” along with a smiley face emoji.

The activity on the account coincides with Comey being back in the news after the FBI released documents on Monday revealing he drafted a statement about the conclusion of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server long before that investigation had actually concluded. The other big story of the week concerning the White House is the controversy surrounding President Trump’s phone calls with families of fallen soldiers.

Comey was fired as FBI director by Trump in May.

The Reinhold Niebuhr account follows only 29 other accounts, including Wittes, the FBI, a number of journalists, and various media outlets.