According to a Secret Service email at the time, Comey was interviwed by phone the day he posted the photo in May 2025. “We needed to believe that there is an imminent threat to life or limb,” the agent’s email from the day after Comey posted the seashell photos reads. According to the court filings, Secret Service agents had also begun physically surveilling Comey at the time. The unnamed individual was interviewed by Secret Service agents around the time the photo was posted last year. Agents also interviewed two retired FBI agents who had worked against organized crime in New York.