text: They weren't sent to "colleagues" within the FBI.   They were given to "a friend" from Columbia University who leaked to the press which prompted a Special Counsel headed by Mueller  to investigate the Flynn incident.   You nicely left out the "leaker friend" part.
  COMEY: Yes, I — yes. I think nearly all of my written recordings of my conversations — had a chance to review them before filing my statement.
  LANKFORD: Do you have a copy of any those notes, personally?
  COMEY: I don’t. I turned them over to Bob Mueller’s investigators.
  LANKFORD: The individual that you told about your memos, that then sent on to the New York Times — do they have a copy of those memos, or were they told orally of those memos?
  COMEY: Had a copy — had a copy at the time.
  LANKFORD: Do they — do they still have a copy of those memos?
  COMEY: That’s a good question.
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  STOP SPREADING FAKE NEWS!