Former special counsel Jack Smith excoriated the Justice Department over its indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying it "reeks of a lack of process," and he also weighed in on other actions by the department under the Trump administration.
In an interview with former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman at the University College London, Smith said, "The apolitical prosecutors who analyzed this said there wasn't a case, and so they brought somebody in who had never been a criminal prosecutor on days' notice to secure an indictment a day before the statute of limitations ended."
Smith, who investigated and prosecuted President Trump before his reelection, accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of being "driven to achieve certain outcomes, no matter what," particularly in the ca