Posted on 10/26/2025 12:38:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion on Monday to dismiss the charges of lying to Congress brought by District Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey, however, has retained yet another one of his former leak recipients as a defense attorney, raising the question: Is there anyone on Comey’s defense team that he wasn’t leaking to?
According to a 2019 Office of Inspector General report, in May 2017, James Comey sent four confidential FBI memos to his personal lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald, along with instructions to share the documents with two other lawyers: Daniel Richman and David Kelley. Fitzgerald and Kelley are Comey’s defense lawyers in the case brought by Halligan.
As Federalist CEO Sean Davis pointed out in an X post, Comey hiring his leak recipients as his legal team not only prevents two direct witnesses of his allegedly illegal behavior from testifying against him, but also potentially places incriminating communication between the three men under the protection of attorney-client privilege.
Understandably, the prosecution asked Judge Michael Nachmanoff last weekend to approve a “filter team” to comb through the evidence in order to — as Politico’s reporting framed it — “clarify Fitzgerald’s role in the 8-year-old disclosures.”
Contrary to Politico’s spin, Fitzgerald’s role needs little additional “clarification.” The Office of the Inspector General report on the investigation into Comey’s leaks already clarified the situation — but perhaps not in the way Politico and Comey would have liked. As The Federalist’s Breccan Thies reported, “An August 2019 Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) report shows that Fitzgerald received detailed memos documenting Comey’s private...
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They were all part of Comey and his daughter’s ‘Cross-eye Hurricane”.
The problem for Comey is that he leaked, and shared official memos that he created as Director of the FBI, after he’d already been fired. He shouldn’t have even had those documents in his possession. They were government property.
I’d be stunned if they got a conviction in this case. “Bull” Durham let the statute of limitations run in the really serious stuff, such as perjury in the one or two FISA application where Comey personally swore that there was probable chase for issuance of a FISA warrant when it is now clear that the FBI new it was all BS from the outset
If Comey’s legal team needs help, I’m willing and able to take a leak on them every day...every hour, if needed.
-PJ
Comey is taking all that witnessed him off the witness stand. A judge should disallow this maneuver.
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A Grand Conspiracy insurrection-treason only rivaled by the succession of states leading to the civil war.
Not kidding. It happened and is still going on.
For a former FBI director, Comey has a unique inability in not committing felonies and turning aides into accessories.
This tactic has been used before in Washington by democrats accused of crimes, by democrats appearing in front of Repubbie Committees investigating democrat politicians.
I think Hillary, several others like Jarrett and the former head father dnc.
Jumpin’ Jack Flash is my favorite Strolling Bones song. It really pissed my off that the FIBBIES stole the phrase “crossfire hurricane” to use as part of their Biden/Obammy macho man fluster cuck.
I hear you and Stones over Beatles any day of the week. The Beatles were a bunch of saps.
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