If this really is FBI Director James Comey's Twitter account, he gave an A+ response to being outed

by Jen Hayden

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Thursday, Mar. 30, 2017 Thursday, Mar. 30, 2017 at 6:46:05pm PDT

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: FBI Director James Comey testifies during a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee September 27, 2016 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on 'Fifteen Years After 9/11: Threats to the Homeland.' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Is that you, Director Comey?

Gizmodo likely unmasked FBI Director James Comey’s secret Twitter account today. Following a social media trail of crumbs, the eventually landed on the account of @projectexile7, a/k/a "Reinhold Niebuhr." After Gizmodo published their article, “Reinhold Niebuhr” quickly began to gain new followers, including many national reporters.

A few hours later the account @projectexile7 tweeted just one thing before locking the account. A meme from the movie Anchorman and a link to jobs at the FBI!

I think @projectexile7 just confirmed that he is FBI Director James Comey and now he wants to hire @ashleyfeinberg pic.twitter.com/1coP1G0SoB
Ã¢ÂÂ sick transit, gloria (@samknight1) March 31, 2017

Over on Comey’s alleged Instagram account, this was added and the owner of the account tagged Ashley Feinberg, the Gizmodo sleuth who dug up the accounts:

A post shared by Reinhold Niebuhr (@reinholdniebuhr) on Mar 30, 2017 at 4:07pm PDT

If that’s him—that’s a hilarious way to respond to a very public social media outing.