On Sept. 30, when I wrote for Law&Crime about why James Comey's lawyers should be happy after his indictment , I underestimated the weakness of the government's case against the former head of the FBI .

The indictment against Comey charges him with lying to and obstructing Congress during an appearance he made in September 2020 in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. At the hearing, he was asked questions about whether he had authorized anyone at the FBI to serve as an anonymous source in newspaper articles about the Russian election interference investigation.

This past September, Erik Siebert, interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was being pressured by the Trump administration to indict Comey. Seibert resisted, presumably because the U.S. ttorney's office fel

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