The truth hurts, eventually.

On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on two counts related to lying. A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, found that Comey violated 18 U.S.C. Section 1001(a)(2) when he “did willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement” by telling a U.S. senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he had not “authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports.”

The grand jury noted that Comey knew he had “authorized a person to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning PERSON 1.”

The second count is “obstruction of a Congressional proceeding,” a violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1505. The grand jury said Comey “did corruptly endeavo

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