JIm Comey Charged for Leaking National Secrets – Fat Elephant
The Department of Justice charged former FBI Director James Comey with allegedly transmitting national defense information and conspiring to transmit it, according to court documents made public on Monday.
Comey, who launched the FBI probe into purported Russian election interference in 2016, now faces his third federal case, according to an NBC News report.
The outlet reported that Comey has not been indicted, and that his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the charges.
The Department filed a waiverless criminal information to toll the statute of limitations on allegations involving former FBI Director Comey. Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized federal-court practice and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals. This is an ongoing criminal investigation, and we will not comment further.
In other words, it’s criminal information under investigation. They’re paying the toll to keep the statute of limitations from hampering the probe.
The complaint alleged that Comey told an unnamed individual to “disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication,” CNBC reported.
The information matches a leak in The New York Times.
This is the third time Comey has been charged.
BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with violating the Espionage Act for allegedly directing the disclosure of national defense information to a reporter in 2016. The case is assigned to Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington, D.C. https://t.co/iIPThx9Xr3
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) October 26, 2026
Access the newly unsealed docket here: https://t.co/BOhyjXqOQs
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) October 26, 2026
Karma
The day after Joe Biden was sworn in as President, James Comey was publicly calling for Trump to be thrown in prison and barred from running for office again.
Have fun Comey. https://t.co/vISbCDm7Mu
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 26, 2026
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