After an extensive amount of research, Gizmodo reporters have possibly found FBI Director James Comey’s Twitter account @projectexile7.
Here’s the “evidence” to support their claim after four hours of “sleuthing”:
First, at a National Security Alliance leadership Dinner, Gizmodo reported Comey saying,
“… I care deeply about privacy, treasure it. I have an Instagram account with nine followers. Nobody is getting in. They’re all immediate relatives and one daughter’s serious boyfriend. I let them in because they’re serious enough. I don’t want anybody looking at my photos. I treasure my privacy and security on the internet. My job is public safety.”
By requesting to be friends with one of Comey’s family members on Instagram, a list of “suggestions for you” popped up, only two of the accounts showed fake names and only one of the accounts was reported to have close to the nine followers Comey claimed to have, “reinholdniebuhr.”
It is believed that “reinholdniebuhr’ or Reinhold Niebuhr is Comey because he wrote his senior thesis on the theologian, said Gizmodo.
Gizmodo reported finding seven twitter accounts with variations of “Reinhold Niebuhr” as a username, but only one was “operating in stealth: @projectexile7.”
@projectexile7 is following only 27 accounts and had only one follower at the time of the report, Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare, who wrote he is a personal friend of Comey.
Of the 39 tweets the account has liked, Gizmodo reported eight referring directly to Comey, one to an active FBI investigation and four referring to the Trump administration.
Gizmodo reached out to Wittes and the FBI.
Wittes replied, “I actually commented earlier today on Comey’s Twitter account — on Twitter, no less. Beyond that public statement, I have nothing to say,” and the FBI had no comment.
Gizmodo said the “proof” they found is not definite, but it would be a coincidence if it were anyone else.
Not certain, but this is probably the FBI director’s Twitter account
