{"id":944,"date":"2026-10-27T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/2026-10-27-james-comey-charged\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:37:26","slug":"2026-10-27-james-comey-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/2026-10-27-james-comey-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department files new national-defense charges against James Comey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Justice Department files new national-defense charges against James Comey<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Created:<\/strong> 2026-10-27T07:00:00-04:00 (America\/New_York)<br><strong>Last updated:<\/strong> 2026-10-27T06:36:31-04:00 (America\/New_York)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A federal court in Washington unsealed a criminal information charging former FBI Director James Comey with transmitting national-defense information and conspiracy, tied to alleged October 2016 disclosures to a reporter; Comey\u2019s lawyers have moved to dismiss, citing the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we can say from primary-oriented reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, United States v. James Brien Comey, Jr., No. 1:26-cr-00229 (TNM); unsealing memorandum order by Judge Trevor N. McFadden dated Oct. 26, 2026.<\/li>\n<li>Per the order, the government filed a criminal information (not a grand-jury indictment) on Oct. 5, 2026, with two counts: 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 793(d) (transmitting national-defense information) and conspiracy under \u00a7\u00a7 793(d) and (g).<\/li>\n<li>The charges concern alleged conduct on Oct. 5, 2016, while Comey was FBI director. The government moved to seal, citing unindicted co-conspirators; Comey moved to dismiss and sought unsealing, and the government did not oppose unsealing.<\/li>\n<li>Coverage (NBC, CNBC, WaPo) describes this as the third federal case brought against Comey; Comey said in a video that he is innocent (as reported by NBC).<\/li>\n<li>Not yet verified against a primary source (TBD): The criminal information itself and DOJ\u2019s statement were not retrieved in this run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primary sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Comey-Unsealing-Order.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">Memorandum Order unsealing U.S. v. Comey, No. 1:26-cr-00229 (D.D.C., Oct. 26, 2026) (PDF, hosted by MS NOW)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How outlets framed it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Visually separated appendix \u2014 outlet angles from headlines in today\u2019s scout. Not our voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>WaPo:<\/strong> Headline frames the story as: \u201cJustice Dept. charges James Comey, ex-FBI director, for a third time\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>NBC:<\/strong> Headline frames the story as: \u201cJames Comey charged for a third time by the Trump administration\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>CNN:<\/strong> Headline frames the story as: \u201cFmr. FBI Director James Comey charged by DOJ for third time\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bloomberg:<\/strong> Headline frames the story as: \u201cDOJ Accuses Ex-FBI Director Comey of Sharing Defense Secrets\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>WSJ:<\/strong> Headline frames the story as: \u201cJustice Department Charges James Comey Again\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Department files new national-defense charges against James Comey Created: 2026-10-27T07:00:00-04:00 (America\/New_York)Last updated: 2026-10-27T06:36:31-04:00 (America\/New_York) A federal court in Washington unsealed a criminal information charging former FBI Director James Comey with transmitting national-defense information and conspiracy, tied to alleged October 2016 disclosures to a reporter; Comey\u2019s lawyers have moved to dismiss, citing the statute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themedianow.net\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}