{"id":165747,"date":"2025-09-26T00:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-for-making-false-statement-to-congress-and-obstruction-of-justice-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:23:09","slug":"former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-for-making-false-statement-to-congress-and-obstruction-of-justice-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/former-fbi-director-james-comey-indicted-for-making-false-statement-to-congress-and-obstruction-of-justice-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI director James Comey indicted for making false statement to Congress and obstruction of justice – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comey, one of Trump\u2019s frequent targets, indicted on counts of making false statements and obstruction of justice
US politics \u2013 latest updates<\/a>
James Comey, the former FBI director and one of Donald Trump\u2019s most frequent targets, was indicted on Thursday on one count of making a false statement to Congress and one count of obstruction of justice, in the latest move in the president\u2019s expansive retribution campaign against his political adversaries.
\u201cNo one is above the law. Today\u2019s indictment reflects this Department of Justice\u2019s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people,\u201d Pam Bondi<\/a>, the US attorney general, said in a statement<\/a> on Thursday.
Trump celebrated the charges in a post on Truth Social.
\u201cJUSTICE IN AMERICA! One of the worst human beings this Country has ever been exposed to is James Comey<\/a>, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI,\u201d he wrote in a post. \u201cToday he was indicted by a Grand Jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts. He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!\u201d
The indictment came shortly after Trump instructed Bondi to \u201cmove now\u201d to prosecute Comey and other officials he considers political foes, in an extraordinarily direct social media post trampling on the justice department\u2019s tradition of independence.
The charges came less than a week after Lindsey Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia, after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert, after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence.
Halligan, most recently a White House aide and former Trump lawyer who has no prosecutorial experience, was also presented with a memo earlier this week laying out why charges should not be brought. But the justice department still pushed it through, people familiar with the matter said.
The indictment, filed in federal court in the eastern district of Virginia, shows grand jurors charged Comey was charged with obstructing \u201ca congressional investigation into the disclosure of sensitive information\u201d and making a false statement to the FBI when he said he did not authorize someone at the agency to be an anonymous source. Prosecutors sought a third charge<\/a> against Comey, but grand jurors rejected the request, court documents show.
\u201cToday, your FBI<\/a> took another step in its promise of full accountability,\u201d Kash Patel, the FBI director, said in a statement.
Mark Warner, a Democratic senator from Virginia, condemned the charges.
\u201cDonald Trump has made clear that he intends to turn our justice system into a weapon for punishing and silencing his critics,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThis kind of interference is a dangerous abuse of power. Our system depends on prosecutors making decisions based on evidence and the law, not on the personal grudges of a politician determined to settle scores.\u201d
Days before submitting his resignation under pressure, Siebert reportedly conveyed to his superiors at the justice department that the cases against Comey and James were unlikely to result in charges.
In social media posts on Saturday, Trump claimed that Comey, James and a third political opponent, Democratic senator Adam Schiff of California, were \u201cguilty as hell\u201d and that his supporters were upset that \u201cnothing has been done\u201d.
\u201cWe can\u2019t delay any longer, it\u2019s killing our reputation and credibility,\u201d Trump posted. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!\u201d
Trump\u2019s contempt for Comey stretches back to the early days of his first term, when according to Comey, Trump sought to secure a pledge of loyalty from the then FBI director, who refused. At the time, Comey was leading the criminal investigation into Russian meddling in the US election. Trump dismissed Comey in May 2017.
Earlier this year, Comey was investigated by the Secret Service after he shared and then deleted a cryptic social media post of seashells in the formation of \u201c8647\u201d that Trump\u2019s allies alleged was an incitement of violence against the president.
Comey said he opposed violence of any kind and said he was unaware that \u201c86\u201d had a violent connotation. Comey voluntarily sat for an interview with the agency.<\/p>\n

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