Former FBI Director James Comey testifies before a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 8, 2017. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/File

Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey argued in a filing Thursday that the indictment against their client is too vague and have requested a detailed explanation of what false statements, exactly, Comey allegedly made to Congress.

The dispute is at the heart of a new motion to dismiss the case his attorneys also filed Thursday, arguing that questions posed to him by GOP Sen. Ted Cruz during a 2020 hearing “were fundamentally ambiguous” and that Comey’s answers are not false statements as prosecutors have alleged.

Comey is being charged with making false statements and obstructing Congress.

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