Trump firing Comey is odd

This is my impression as well. I've heard from a lot of private-sector people who handled relatively low classified materials. "Confidential" is the lowest classified material rating (for reference, my brother, a 6-year grunt in the National Guard who achieved the rank of Specialist, has "Top Secret" clearance, a full two ratings higher; although likely only on a need-to-know basis), and several private contractors for the government deal with confidential information routinely. They all, almost universally, report that if they ever leaked anything with even confidential classification out to the general public they would: - Lose their job - Never get clearance to work with anything classified ever again - Face a heavy fine by way of their contract - Possibly/probably face criminal charges, depending on the information Note that among Hillary's leaked e-mails I believe something like 80 were confidential, and some number of others (not more than 12, as I recall), were even higher classification. So definitely not doing his job, and definitely would've been far, _far_ worse for any regular person who did something like that.