comey asked his friend to give the memos.
oddly the the cnn sources were wrong regarding the fact that comey did tell trump he was not under investigation.
and the times sources were wrong about other things...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...about-trump-campaign-having-repeated-contacts
"Risch noted that after the report came out, Comey “sought out both Republican and Democrat senators to tell them that, hey, I don’t know where this is coming from, but this is not factual.”
Risch told Comey: “So the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true. Is that a fair statement?”
“In the main – it was not true,” Comey said. “The challenge -- and I’m not picking on reporters -- about writing stories about classified information is that people talking about it often don’t really know what is going on. And those of us who actually know what’s going on aren’t talking about it. And we don’t call the press to say, hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic. We just have to leave it there.”"