"Thrust into the job because no one with any prosecutorial experience would sign off on criminal cases against former FBI Director James " 8647" Comey and current NY Attorney General Letitia James - cases that make no sense - Halligan approached the task at hand in a manner befitting a graduate of the Dunning Kruger School of Law, digging the government into successively deeper holes at every turn."
"Questions about the indictment swirled from jump, when the court wondered why they'd received two different indictments, confusingly at odds over the number of charges. The government never offered much of a satisfactory explanation for this, and ultimately the Magistrate ordered the DOJ to turn over grand jury material to Comey's lawyers. Halligan fought this, and now we know why: she had, in fact, royally screwed up the grand jury process."
Lindsey Halligan was elevated to run the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia despite limited prosecutorial experience. She approved criminal cases against former FBI Director James " 8647" Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Two inconsistent indictments were delivered, prompting court questions and a magistrate order to produce grand jury materials. The grand jury heard three charges and rejected the first count. The Justice Department then drafted a two-count indictment without resubmitting it to the grand jury and had the foreperson sign it. Halligan resisted disclosure and experienced prosecutors departed amid concerns about the cases' legitimacy.
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