The statute of limitations is NEXT Tuesday. If anything is going to happen it has to happen ASAP.
But it would be justice served if Comey were to end up being bars.
He is on record lying but this one could actually stick. And if they can get the former CIA director involved that would be icing on the cake!
And this gives some more info . . . Full story at the link at CNBC
But it would be justice served if Comey were to end up being bars.
He is on record lying but this one could actually stick. And if they can get the former CIA director involved that would be icing on the cake!
And this gives some more info . . . Full story at the link at CNBC
Former FBI Director Comey expected to be indicted soon in Virginia federal court: MSNBC
Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted on criminal charges in the coming days in federal court in Virginia, MSNBC reported Wednesday.
Comey for years has been a target of President Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director early in his first term in the White House.
News of the potential indictment comes days after the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia resigned under pressure from Trump after opposing the filing of charges against Comey in that district.
The prosecutor, Erik Siebert, was replaced as interim U.S. Attorney on Monday by Lindsey Halligan, who has represented Trump in legal cases in the past.
Trump in a social media post Saturday, called Comey “guilty as hell” as he raged about the lack of charges against the former FBI leader.
MSNBC reporter Ken Dilanian, in a post on X, wrote Wednesday, “The full extent of the charges being prepared against Comey is unclear.”
“But the sources believe that at least one element of the indictment — if it goes forward — will accuse him of lying to Congress during his testimony on September 30, 2020 about whether he authorized a leak of information,” Dilanian tweeted.
Comey, that day under questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stood by his prior testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did not, as FBI director, authorize a leak of information to The Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 article.
That article detailed a Justice Department probe of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email use.
Dilanian, who reported Wednesday’s story with his MSNBC colleague Carol Leonnig, noted that the five-year statute of limitations on a charge of lying to Congress against Comey would lapse next Tuesday.
Cruz, in a December 2020 letter to the Justice Department, wrote that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had admitted knowing about and authorizing the leak.
Cruz wrote that while McCabe has insisted that Comey was aware of his decision to authorize the disclosure, Comey “has denied this claim.”
“Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote. “Mr. McCabe says that he told Mr. Comey of the leak and that Mr. Comey approved — effectively authorizing the leak after the fact. Mr. Comey, on the other hand, has said that he neither authorized the leak nor knew of Mr. McCabe’s involvement.”
“One of them is lying under oath — a federal crime,” Cruz wrote.
CNBC has requested comment from Comey through his book publisher.
Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday that was aimed at Attorney General Pam Bondi, said that Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, are “all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to get done.” . . .
