Former FBI director James Comey's latest tweet was a defense of the press — a quote from Thomas Jefferson's Jan. 28, 1786 letter from Paris to physician James Currie.
"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost," Comey tweeted Saturday evening along with a picture of the Capitol.
Lifting a quote from a 200-year-old letter that Jefferson had written to the doctor who treated Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson, his daughter, and tweeting it may seem random and innocuous on the surface, but its timing suggests otherwise.
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.