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Former FBI director James Comey faces yet another indictment from the Department of Justice. This one may be more difficult to shake than the supposed "8647" threat against Donald Trump. In fact, this alleged violation actually precedes Trump's first term, according to the court filing, although that doesn't mean Trump isn't part of the case:

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Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged by federal prosecutors with transmission of national defense information and conspiracy to transmit national defense information.

Comey and his team moved to dismiss the case last week, NBC News also reports, but apparently without success. The indictment under seal alleges that Comey transmitted national security information to "a person not entitled to receive it."

The three-page indictment does not go into much detail. It alleges that Comey violated 18 USC 793, a statute that became very familiar during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's bathroom e-mail server. It is commonly known as the Espionage Act, but the statutes cover a lot more bad behavior than direct spying. It establishes the mishandling of sensitive information as a crime – which also came up in the Mar-a-Lago investigation run by Jack Smith as special counsel – and especially leaking such material to people not cleared to access it.

That includes reporters, and the spare two-count indictment makes that allegation. It also alleges that Comey had help in laundering the leak:

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In furtherance of the conspiracy and to effect the objects thereof, on October 5, 2016, the defendant through one or more co-conspirators directed Individual #1 to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication.

All in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(d) and (g).

Then-Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigators improperly saw potential attorney-client privileged materials on multiple occasions during its probes of President Donald Trump, calling into question the controversial prosecutor's recent Senate testimony that his team had always followed so-called filter team protocols to protect such information.

Emails obtained under federal open records laws by The Oversight Project, a nonprofit investigative watchdog, show that Smith's team internally acknowledged on at least six occasions between December 2022 and August 2023 when it had accidentally or improperly let suspected attorney-client privileged materials or other sensitive communications slide through filter team reviews. The documents were sent to frontline investigators, like FBI agents.

I hate Trump because he’s fascist

According to “DataRepublican,” a well-known data-crunching online influencer who previously worked as an analyst for the Pentagon, the Democratic Socialists of America have plans for all of us. She cites literally “thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings” showing what those plans are.

“You’ve heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits,” DataRepublican wrote on X.

“What you have not heard is — there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become ‘foot soldiers’ in constant clashes with the administration to cross a ‘red line’ or invoke a ‘doomsday scenario’ — meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.

“Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep American governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a ‘young and brown’ demographic.”