Minimal details are included in former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment, but it doesn’t necessarily signal a lack of evidence.
Though prosecutors face legitimate challenges to securing a conviction, some legal experts have cautioned that it is too early to really assess the strength of the government’s indictment, which charged Comey with two counts for allegedly obstructing a congressional proceeding and making a false statement to Congress during his September 2020 testimony about the Trump-Russia probe.
“The government does not have to disclose at this stage of the proceeding what evidence it has gathered that Comey was intentionally lying,” Empower Oversight founder Jason Foster told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “But he issued broad denials under oath that he never authorized any leaks. The government only has to prove that he authorized one to disprove that claim as false.”…
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