From the Comey testimony transcript

RISCH: You talked with us shortly after February 14th, when the New York Times wrote an article that suggested that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians. You remember reading that article when it first came out?
COMEY: I do. It was about allegedly extensive electronic surveillance communications.
RISCH: And that upset you to the point where you actually went out and surveyed the intelligence community to see whether you were missing something in that. Is that correct?
COMEY: That’s correct.
RISCH: After that, you 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 the case, this is not factual. Do you recall that?
COMEY: Yes.
RISCH: So, again, so the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true. Is that a fair statement?
COMEY: In the main, it was not true. And, again, all of you know this, maybe the American people don’t. 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’s going on. And those of us who actually know what’s going on are not 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.

When asked later by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton if it*would be fair to characterize the Times story "as almost entirely wrong,"*Comey replied, "Yes."

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