Case against Comey may end in humiliation for rump's DOJ [View all]
By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney
09/26/2025 06:50 PM EDT
... in Comey’s case, there is ample public evidence that the charges were not the result of prosecutors’ neutral assessment of the facts. Rather, they appear to have been brought at the behest of a president seeking to use prosecutorial muscle to settle an old score ...
... the indictment is devoid of any details about how Comey’s testimony can be proven to be a criminal lie. It doesn’t contain a single quote that Comey allegedly uttered ...
... federal indictments are signed by assistant U.S. attorneys, the rank-and-file prosecutors who specialize in specific areas of criminal law and who may have spent months or years building the case. But the Comey indictment was signed only by Halligan, a longtime insurance lawyer who had no prosecutorial experience when she was sworn in ...
There may be a more mundane reason prosecutors struggle to convict Comey, even if the case reaches trial: technology glitches in the Covid era. During the September 2020 Senate hearing, Comey testified remotely from his home in McLean, Virginia, and right from the start there were signs of a poor internet connection ...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/26/james-comey-indictment-flaws-00582920
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