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Russian woman claims she was manipulated into entrapping Gen. Flynn; Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports. The FBI also promised to file a follow-up to explain the redactions in the Archey declaration by next week. The Comey memos were more widely shared within the government than previously known , three sources familiar with the matter told Fox News last year -- although Comey later admitted to hiding the memos from some senior DOJ officials.

Last April, the DOJ gave lawmakers redacted versions of five of the memos. Public outrage centered on the news that Comey wrote in one of his memos that Trump had told him, "I hope you can let this go," amid reports that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI and senior White House officials about his contacts with Russia's government. Trump, for his part, promised to "declassify and release" key FBI FISA warrant applications and related documents -- including the entirety of a FISA application to surveil a Trump aide that relied heavily on an unsubstantiated, leaked dossier created by an anti-Trump ex-British spy working for a firm hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

Leaked information about the dossier and the FISA application kickstarted the Russian collusion narrative. As president, Trump has the unique authority to declassify and publicize not only the FISA materials, but also the Comey memos and the FBI's efforts to keep them hidden.

Mueller's investigation completed last month without securing the indictment of a single American for collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice -- "despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.

Richman ultimately leaked the contents of the memo to The New York Times. The media firestorm that followed the leak proved a watershed moment that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment. Strzok, according to the report, urged Richman to "please preserve" anything Comey had given him. Richman told the inspector general that after his initial conversation with Strzok, he had multiple conversations with members of the FBI about the "mechanics" and "logistical complexities" of retrieving Comey's memos from his computer.

By June 13, , FBI agents went to Richman's home in New York to remove his desktop computer and returned it only after they took steps "to permanently remove" the memos from it. According to the report, the FBI agents also assisted Richman in deleting the text message with photographs of Comey's memo--specifically "memo 4"--from his cell phone. Public outrage centered on the news that Comey wrote in one of his memos that Trump had told him, "I hope you can let this go," amid reports that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI and senior White House officials about his contacts with Russia's government.

Although Comey said he wrote the memos so that they would not contain classified information, two of his memos--memos "1" and "3"--contained information later classified at the "SECRET" level. Comey, whom Trump fired in May , denied that sharing the memos with his legal team constituted a leak of classified information.

According to the report, Comey reviewed his memos on the back porch of his home on June 7, , after the FBI provided them to him. His first reaction was that some of the classification markings seemed "reasonable" and some seemed "overly conservative. Boasberg -- an Obama appointee who was also tapped by Chief Justice John Roberts for a seat on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA court -- issued an order Wednesday demanding the FBI hand over "clean and redacted copies of the documents in dispute here," apparently including the Comey memos and documents relating to the declarations.

Boasberg will review the materials "in camera," meaning privately, as he determines whether to make public the FBI's secretive declarations.

The FBI, in its opposition filing , insisted there was no legal basis to turn over the materials. But CNN's reply brief argued that the FBI had "failed" to establish a compelling reason to keep the documents secret, noting that there is a strong presumption in favor of access to court records -- and that, by releasing the memos to Congress, the FBI had conceded there was no legitimate law enforcement justification for denying the FOIA request in he first place.

The DOJ's inspector general, meanwhile, is reviewing whether some of the Comey memos improperly contained classified information. Boasberg's order comes as President Trump, in a fiery interview Wednesday night on Fox News' "Hannity," vowed to "get to the bottom" of how the discredited Russia-Trump collusion narrative began.