Columbia Law Website Crashes After Professor Is Identified During James Comey Testimony

A law professor gains fleeting internet fame thanks to the Comey testimony.

James Comey (Getty Images)

James Comey (Photo by Getty Images)

In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, James Comey, the former director of the FBI, testified today before the Senate Intelligence Committee as to his private conversations with President Donald Trump. During his testimony, Comey said he’d asked a friend at Columbia Law to leak certain information to the press:

[T]he president tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there’s not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night because it didn’t dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might a tape. My judgement was, I need to get that out into the public square. I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself for a variety of reasons. I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. I asked a close friend to do it. … A close friend who is a professor at Columbia law school.

Comey’s friend has since been identified as Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor who currently serves as one of Comey’s advisers. As soon as people put the pieces together, they flocked to the Columbia Law website to take a look at his biography. Needless to say, this is what they saw when they arrived:

Columbia Law Broken Page

When the school became aware of the issue, this tweet was issued:

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The website issue has since been resolved, but this is likely the most anyone has cared about desperately searching for information on a Columbia Law professor since Professor Philip Bobbitt married one of his students.

Congratulations on your fleeting internet fame, Professor Richman!

Columbia Law School Faculty Website Crashes After Comey’s Comments On Professor [Daily Caller]
Comey’s memo leaker, a Columbia Law School friend, identified [Crain’s New York Business]


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