Posted on 09/26/2025 1:11:40 AM PDT by RandFan
Comey’s indictment includes two counts: false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
The felonies each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison, though if convicted, Comey would be a first-time offender who would likely receive a lesser punishment.
They stem from an exchange between Comey and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a Sept. 30, 2020 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Cruz asked Comey if he had ever authorized a leak about the FBI’s investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The question zeroed in on conflicting accounts between Comey and his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, regarding a leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Clinton investigation days before the 2016 election.
McCabe has indicated Comey knew about and authorized the leak. Comey maintains he was unaware and that McCabe in a conversation after the story published implied he, too, wasn’t involved.
A 2018 inspector general report sided with Comey’s account, saying McCabe authorized the leak and “lacked candor” when he told his boss and later investigators that he didn’t.
“What Mr. McCabe is saying and what you testified to this committee cannot both be true. One or the other is false. Who’s telling the truth?” Cruz pressed.
Comey responded, “I can only speak to my testimony. I stand by the testimony you summarized.”
The false statements charge requires prosecutors to prove that Comey “knowingly and willfully” made a “false, fictitious, or fraudulent” statement to Cruz, and it was material.
The obstruction charge requires prosecutors to show that Comey in making a false statement corruptly endeavored “to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law.”
Comey is charged in the Eastern District of Virginia because his congressional testimony was given remotely from his home
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Most Freepers have called for this - or something like it- for a long time so nice to see even though it'll be hard to convict (looks like a high bar to prove it?)
Bolton should be an easier case if it turns out he did harvest classified material as has been alleged.
It took four of these losers at the Hill to write about five things we supposedly need toknow.
BETTER BE A LOT MORE!!
It does look like a disappointingly low probability of conviction.
And don't you dare know anything beyond that, unless directed to by the state run MSM.
Ever wonder why there’s only 5, 7 or 10 things you need to know about certain subjects?
He’ll get community service at the local DNC office. The justice system is one for the anti-American national socialists and another for patriot Americans. Has been that way for the last 50 years.
Finding Comey guilty will not be a slam dunk.
Well, remember the guy that Durham indicted (can’t remember name) and he went to trial at the same court? Acquitted by an Alexandria jury.
So satisfying. And this is not just an indictment of Comey. It is an indictment of the way the Deem State operates. Comey is being indicted for doing things that most of them do. Finding clever ways to leak classified information and manipulate the system to attack their opponents. Hopefully the new standard holds.
Comey will walk.
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Thanks for the laughs!
Thanks for the laughs!
You’re very welcome!
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