Comey Faces the Music: Ex-FBI Boss Arraigned on Lies and Obstruction Charges

Comey has a private discussion with the Lord

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. 

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."

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.

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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New evidence damning to Obama in phony Russiagate scandal

Fresh evidence unsealed in the Michael Flynn court battle confirms-not implies-that former President Barack Hussein Obama played a central role in moving forward the whole fake Russiagate "scandal" that rocked the entire country.

Handwritten notes by the disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok show that Obama and his comical side-kick, Joe Biden who played along, encouraged the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Flynn, in spite of their knowledge told to them by the FBI that Flynn's actions "appear legit."

Of course, we should not be too hard with Biden as it's quite possible his mental status is similar to what it is today--lacking the analytical capacity to distinguish his derriere from his elbow.

Strzok notes the document of then FBI chief James "Lordy" Comey's account, which gives more detail of the January 5, 22017 meeting that included Obama, Biden, Comey, Susan Rice and Sally Yates. [Rice was then National Security Adviser and Yates was then Deputy Attorney General.]

On learning that the FBI was set to close its investigation into Flynn after finding no evidence of wrongdoing, Obama and Biden suggested finding ways to keep it open, with Biden bringing up the (dead letter) Logan Act, because he graduated at the bottom third of his law school and didn't realize how preposterous his idea was at the time.

The notes show Obama ordering the continued investigation be kept secret from the incoming Trump administration.  “Make sure you look at things and have the right people on it,” Obama ordered.

After Trump entered the White House, Comey and Yates were able to take out Flynn, thus sidelining White House oversight of the 

In the new administration, holdovers Comey and Yates did manage to take out Flynn, sidelining any effective White House oversight of the unprincipled Russiagate probe — and thus allowing it to grow like fungus.

Biden lied to ABC last month, “I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn.” Still, it's possible he forgot as he has reached the point where he cannot identify his wife from his sister without assistance.

Serious-looking US Attorney John Durham is reviewing the origins of the Russiagate probe for signs of impropriety and unlawfulness. The report will hopefully be released to the public before the election in November.

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