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In a courtroom drama that's been brewing for years, former FBI Director James Comey is stepping into the federal dock Wednesday morning, indicted for allegedly lying his way through a congressional probe and stonewalling investigators digging into the Russia hoax mess.
Comey has said he is innocent, in spite of the words he said under oath that turned out to be false.
The once-mighty G-man turned author, 'Nature Boy,' and Trump critic, is due for his initial appearance at 10 a.m. Eastern in the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse, smack in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey's wife, Patrice, and daughter Maurene were already spotted queuing up outside the building early Wednesday, a poignant snapshot of family steeling for the storm.
The once-mighty G-man turned author, 'Nature Boy,' and Trump critic, is due for his initial appearance at 10 a.m. Eastern in the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse, smack in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey's wife, Patrice, and daughter Maurene were already spotted queuing up outside the building early Wednesday, a poignant snapshot of family steeling for the storm.
Presiding over the spectacle is District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff.
The hammer dropped in September when a federal grand jury slapped Comey with two counts: false statements in the legislative branch's wheelhouse and straight-up obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
The indictment paints Comey as the roadblock in a probe over leaking classified intel, breaching 18 USC 1505 like it was yesterday's news.
Prosecutors claim Comey fibbed big-time when he swore under oath that he never greenlit an FBI underling to play anonymous leaker. Per the paperwork, that was a whopper. Fox News Digital broke the story back in July that Comey was in the FBI's crosshairs for a criminal probe. The heat was all about whether he perjured himself during that September 30, 2020, Hill testimony on his stewardship of the FBI's original Trump-Russia witch hunt, internally dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane."
"No one is above the law," Attorney General Pam Bondi fired off on X post-indictment, underscoring that it "reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case."
Current FBI Director Kash Patel had this to say: "previous corrupt leadership and their enablers weaponized federal law enforcement, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust."
"Every day, we continue the fight to earn that trust back, and under my leadership, this FBI will confront the problem head-on," Patel added. "Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose."
Patel went on: "Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch."
Comey, ever the showman, responded with an Instagram video after the cuffs came calling, brushing off the charges like yesterday's briefing.
"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way," he said. "We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right."
"But I'm not afraid," Comey added.
"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith," Comey said. Fox News Digital's got the exclusive on another deep-state domino: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan's sweating a criminal probe tied to the same Trump-Russia farce.
By federal clock, prosecutors had until Tuesday to drop the charges, five years from the alleged lies.
The Eastern District of Virginia's U.S. Attorney’s Office is steering the ship on this one. Flashback: The FBI kicked off its Trump-Russia obsession in July 2016 under the "Crossfire Hurricane" banner.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, sparking the inevitable backlash.
Enter Robert Mueller days later as special counsel to inherit the FBI's fever dream probe.After a two-year taxpayer-funded odyssey, Mueller's March 2019 finale? Zilch on criminal collusion between Team Trump and Moscow meddlers in '16.
Then John Durham was assigned as special counsel to autopsy the "Crossfire Hurricane" origins. The FBI blew off a neon-red flag that they were the marks in a Clinton-orchestrated ploy to twist law enforcement for an electoral edge pre-2016.
"The aforementioned facts reflect a rather startling and inexplicable failure to adequately consider and incorporate the Clinton Plan intelligence into the FBI's investigative decision-making in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Durham’s report states.
"Indeed, had the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation as an assessment and, in turn, gathered and analyzed data in concert with the information from the Clinton Plan intelligence, it is likely that the information received would have been examined, at a minimum, with a more critical eye," the report continued.
Durham hammered home: The FBI "failed to act on what should have been, when combined with other incontrovertible facts, a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election."
Years in the making, Comey's day in court feels like poetic justice; a reckoning for the Russia hoax architects who bet the house on taking down Trump, only to watch the foundations crack.
The hammer dropped in September when a federal grand jury slapped Comey with two counts: false statements in the legislative branch's wheelhouse and straight-up obstruction of a congressional proceeding.
The indictment paints Comey as the roadblock in a probe over leaking classified intel, breaching 18 USC 1505 like it was yesterday's news.
Prosecutors claim Comey fibbed big-time when he swore under oath that he never greenlit an FBI underling to play anonymous leaker. Per the paperwork, that was a whopper. Fox News Digital broke the story back in July that Comey was in the FBI's crosshairs for a criminal probe. The heat was all about whether he perjured himself during that September 30, 2020, Hill testimony on his stewardship of the FBI's original Trump-Russia witch hunt, internally dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane."
"No one is above the law," Attorney General Pam Bondi fired off on X post-indictment, underscoring that it "reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case."
Current FBI Director Kash Patel had this to say: "previous corrupt leadership and their enablers weaponized federal law enforcement, damaging once proud institutions and severely eroding public trust."
"Every day, we continue the fight to earn that trust back, and under my leadership, this FBI will confront the problem head-on," Patel added. "Nowhere was this politicization of law enforcement more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose."
Patel went on: "Everyone, especially those in positions of power, will be held to account – no matter their perch."
Comey, ever the showman, responded with an Instagram video after the cuffs came calling, brushing off the charges like yesterday's briefing.
"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way," he said. "We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right."
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| Comey's wife and daughter |
"But I'm not afraid," Comey added.
"My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent, so let’s have a trial and keep the faith," Comey said. Fox News Digital's got the exclusive on another deep-state domino: Ex-CIA chief John Brennan's sweating a criminal probe tied to the same Trump-Russia farce.
By federal clock, prosecutors had until Tuesday to drop the charges, five years from the alleged lies.
The Eastern District of Virginia's U.S. Attorney’s Office is steering the ship on this one. Flashback: The FBI kicked off its Trump-Russia obsession in July 2016 under the "Crossfire Hurricane" banner.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, sparking the inevitable backlash.
Enter Robert Mueller days later as special counsel to inherit the FBI's fever dream probe.After a two-year taxpayer-funded odyssey, Mueller's March 2019 finale? Zilch on criminal collusion between Team Trump and Moscow meddlers in '16.
Then John Durham was assigned as special counsel to autopsy the "Crossfire Hurricane" origins. The FBI blew off a neon-red flag that they were the marks in a Clinton-orchestrated ploy to twist law enforcement for an electoral edge pre-2016.
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| John Durham |
"The aforementioned facts reflect a rather startling and inexplicable failure to adequately consider and incorporate the Clinton Plan intelligence into the FBI's investigative decision-making in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation," Durham’s report states.
"Indeed, had the FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation as an assessment and, in turn, gathered and analyzed data in concert with the information from the Clinton Plan intelligence, it is likely that the information received would have been examined, at a minimum, with a more critical eye," the report continued.
Durham hammered home: The FBI "failed to act on what should have been, when combined with other incontrovertible facts, a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election."
Years in the making, Comey's day in court feels like poetic justice; a reckoning for the Russia hoax architects who bet the house on taking down Trump, only to watch the foundations crack.
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