Comey was hit with two federal counts this week, but the grand jury also rejected one count as the DOJ sought to argue Comey had lied when he claimed not to recall a CIA referral about the Clinton Plan intelligence. The grand jury that indicted ex-FBI Director James Comey for lying to Congress rejected one count brought by the Justice Department, allowing the ex-bureau chief to dodge a false statement charge over his claim that he did not recall a CIA referral memo on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign plan to tie Donald Trump to Russia. Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023…
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Longtime deputy to Robert Mueller and key Trump-Russia investigator Andrew Weissmann is in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors By Matt Taibbi for Racket News For years, Andrew Weissmann was one of the most visible and vociferous critics of Donald Trump, as a former deputy to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and MSNBC legal analyst who wrote a book wondering if the president “paid bribes to foreign officials,” or had “Russian business deals in the works” when he ran for president. Now Weissmann is facing hard questions of his own, about eerily similar themes. In a pair of letters obtained by Racket,…