James Comey will face more charges connected to an allegation he “knowingly and willingly” passed sensitive top secret national defense information to the New York Times, a flagship of the progressive state press.
The DOJ stated it filed a “waiverless criminal information to toll the statute of limitations as it relates to allegations concerning former FBI Director Comey. Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals.”
James Comey Faces New Charges In Alleged NYT Leak– thefederalist.com
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Mr. “86 47” is facing more federal legal trouble, this time on charges related to the alleged leaking of national defense information to The New York Times a decade ago.
According to court documents filed earlier this month and made public on Monday, former FBI Director James Comey on or about Oct. 5, 2016 “knowingly and willfully” passed along or caused national defense information to be transmitted to The Times. The charges involve a story the corporate media outlet published about Yahoo’s use of a surveillance system to scan emails for child pornography and spam. The authority was meant to meet the demands of a court order directing Yahoo to track communications of a state-sponsored terrorist organization, the newspaper reported at the time.
The Obama administration’s Department of Justice obtained permission from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge. Yahoo was barred from disclosing the matter, according to The Times.
Prosecutors allege the disgraced former FBI director authorized James Baker, the agency’s general counsel at the time, to provide the corporate media outlet with classified national security details. Comey, the DOJ alleges, wanted to “correct misinformation” published the previous day by Reuters.