Sidenote: Comey strongly implied (damn near said it really) in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that this did not actually happen and the news articles were way off. Makes you wonder what did actually happen.
I missed this exchange in the livestream, relevant bit: "BURR: Were there other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session?
COMEY: There were other things that contributed to that. One significant item I can’t, I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been some public accounts of it, which are nonsense, but I understand the committee’s been briefed on the classified facts."
We obviously don't know what the classified facts are. This also seems to be in reference to the announcements in late summer vs the disclosure right before the election which I haven't found anything in the transcript about.
Full Transcript: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearin... (Aside: linking to NY times because it was slightly less ad heavy than other sites I could find. Couldn't find a single one without auto-play video...)