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Grins

(8,898 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:17 AM Friday

Quick questions on the Comey indictment...

From the news: The basis of the grand jury charging Comey was the 2020 hearing on the FBI’s probe into links between Trump and Russia during the 2016 campaign. The grand jury charged Comey on two counts:

- Making false statements to Congress, and
- Obstruction of a congressional proceeding,

A third count of lying to Congress was rejected by jurors.

Questions:

#1: Did Congress file charges against Comey? Isn't that the first step in any crime? Someone has to file a complaint? No complaint, no injury?

#2: If the third count of lying to Congress was rejected, then how can Comey be indicted for "Making false statements?"

#3: If the hearing was about the 2016 campaign and Russia, can the full (Bill Barr 100% unredacted) Mueller Report be brought into evidence?

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Quick questions on the Comey indictment... (Original Post) Grins Friday OP
The best answer I can give you True Dough Friday #1
Discovery will be interesting SheltieLover Friday #2
The grand jury is ostensibly the voice of the People. Frasier Balzov Friday #3
What gets me is that Rump probably... TrunKated Friday #4

Frasier Balzov

(4,580 posts)
3. The grand jury is ostensibly the voice of the People.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 11:52 AM
Friday

But historically it is often a rubber stamp for what a prosecutor wants to pursue.

Grand juries are going to need to say no more often if the folks who sit on them want to be a check against the obvious systematic abuse of power now going on.

TrunKated

(275 posts)
4. What gets me is that Rump probably...
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 01:12 PM
Friday

...wouldn't have won without Comey's Hatch act violation.

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