The situation is worse than you think. There is definitely a culture of corruption within the FBI, DOJ and CIA. Horowitz is too chicken shit to admit the obvious and with every passing day it looks like Barr will do nothing as well.
Rat bastards, all of them. They do not know what they are sowing with this.
He gave the material to a lawyer to leak for him. The lawyer was a special hire ( something Comey set up as director) who was given the proper security clearance. Who gave him the clearance? Comey. So when comey gave him the material, he technically gave it to an authorized person and could say on record and say, he didn’t leak it or give classified material to unauthorized people.
It’s the FISA investigation where they might get him.