A recently unsealed court filing shows prosecutors are drawing directly from a 2017 FBI leak investigation to support criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey, reinforcing allegations that he misled Congress about authorizing disclosures tied to the Hillary Clinton email case and sensitive intelligence.
The filing, entered Monday by Comey’s legal defense team, confirms that evidence collected in the leak investigation, codenamed Arctic Haze, is central to the Justice Department’s false-statement and obstruction case against him. Those findings could cast doubt on Comey’s sworn 2020 testimony before Congress, in which he maintained his previous claim that he never allowed anyone at the FBI to serve as an anonymous source for news reports about politically charged investigations.
FILE – Former FBI director James Comey speaks during a Senate
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