Ex-FBI Director James Comey to Be Indicted

Comey for years has been a target of President Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director early in his first term in the White House.

Dilanian noted that “Justice Department guidelines say a case should not be brought unless prosecutors believe it’s more likely than not that they can win a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.” ABC News first reported

Comey, during his September 2020 testimony, under questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stood by his prior testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did not, as FBI director, authorize a leak of information to The Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 article.

That article detailed a Justice Department probe of then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email use.

Cruz, in a December 2020 letter to the Justice Department, wrote that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had admitted knowing about and authorizing the leak.

Cruz wrote that while McCabe has insisted that Comey was aware of his decision to authorize the disclosure, Comey “has denied this claim.”

“Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe’s statements are irreconcilably contradictory,” Cruz wrote. “Mr. McCabe says that he told Mr. Comey of the leak and that Mr. Comey approved — effectively authorizing the leak after the fact. Mr. Comey, on the other hand, has said that he neither authorized the leak nor knew of Mr. McCabe’s involvement.”

“One of them is lying under oath — a federal crime,” Cruz wrote.