Posted on 11/17/2025 10:41:08 AM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a federal judge ruled Monday in directing prosecutors to produce to defense lawyers all grand jury materials from the case.
Those problems, wrote Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, include “fundamental misstatements of the law” by a prosecutor to the grand jury that indicted Comey in September, the use of potentially privileged communications during the investigation and unexplained irregularities in the transcript of the grand jury proceedings.
“The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted,” Fitzpatrick wrote “However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding.”
The 24-page opinion is the most blistering assessment yet by a judge of the Justice Department’s actions leading up to the Comey indictment. That case, along with a separate prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James, have stirred concerns that the Justice Department is being weaponized to pursue President Donald Trump’s political opponents.
Both defendants have filed multiple motions to dismiss the cases against them before trial, arguing that the prosecutions are improperly vindictive and that the prosecutor who filed the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was illegally appointed.
Comey’s lawyers had sought the grand jury materials out of concerns that irregularities in the process may have tainted the case. The sole prosecutor who defense lawyers say presented the case to the grand jury was Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience who was appointed just days earlier to the job of interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Oh please. Someone’s panties are in a wad.
No J6er ever had his case scrutinized like this. Two tier justice at its finest.
The second person used to leak information is not a lawyer, to my knowledge, and wasn't Comey's lawyer (even if licensed). How can those communications be "privileged"?
Judge has already decided to throw out the case.
Another fag DemonRAT jughead and his RAT comrades keepin’ da RATS like Comey above the law instead of putting his butt in prison.
He just called the Grand Jury Members “Stupid”. A usual Dem tactic...and the Dems don’t even know it.
Because judgie-poo says so.................
Most of the Federal bench are partisan, lying scum.
Sure, Magistrate Jan.
How is it privileged when the attorney in question is a material witness and potential co-conspirator and should not be allowed to be on the case due to a conflict of interest?
Didn’t have time to read past the first few sentences. Was this a creditable judge with measurable IQ or was it a Dorkbama or Biden pseud0-judge?
The government swamps must provide a list of what crimes can be investigated and prosecuted by democrats, because the laws applying to me sure ain't the ones applied to them.
Another scumbag judge.
The judge must have gotten a call from Hillary.
JMO....
Last time I checked, the DOJ outranks this fool judge.
“Last time I checked, the DOJ outranks this fool judge.”
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The DOJ is part of the Executive Branch. The courts, including this judge, are part of the Judiciary Branch.
One branch of our government does not outrank the other two.
Prosecutors have yet to go in front of a real jury, nor have they denied the evidence (In COMEY’S own handwritten note) to the the defense.
There isn’t any ‘prosecutor misconduct’ because you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. The real question is why the rush, since they now have evidence that Comey did obstruction of justice by hiding evidence in ‘burn bags’ in a ‘secret room’.
IMHO, Comey cooked himself by 1) writing down the evidence of subversion for political purposes 2) Hiding the evidence and Obstructing Justice. Fairly stupid behavior for a lawyer that is head of the FBI.
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