A federal judge ordered the FBI to reveal additional parts of former FBI Director James Comey’s memos about his meeting with President Trump.
The FBI must unredact some names of countries and world leaders mentioned in the conversations between Trump and Comey, Judge James Boasberg said Friday.
The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit from CNN.
In the memos, Comey recounts a conversation with Trump about the president’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. According to Comey, Trump said he had “serious reservations” about Flynn’s judgment and expressed frustration about how Flynn handled the scheduling of calls from world leaders.
Boasberg said the FBI’s argument that unredacting those portions would harm national security was inadequate. However, he agreed to keep one redaction in which the president speaks critically of a country.
“Given the statement and context, the Court has no trouble following the link offered by the FBI between disclosure and harm to national security,” Boasberg wrote.
