"On the morning of September 25, 2025, the team was preparing for an indictment of James Comey, to occur later that afternoon. SA Warren provided case agent SA Miles Starr and an FBI Office of General Counsel (OGC) attorney a limited overview of the text message communications to and from "Michael Garcia" (now understood to be Daniel Richman). SA Warren advised SA Starr and the FBI OGC attorney that some of the messages appeared to reference potential future legal representation."
"Halligan spent hours preparing with a group that included FBI attorneys and the agents who had led the investigation, the sources said. Halligan participated in a number of "practice runs" and spent hours going through the exhibits in preparation, the sources said. As part of that process, Special Agent Spenser Warren mentioned some texts that EDVA's prosecutors had chosen not to use in an interview weeks earlier of Dan Richman. Warren explained that they seemed to include privileged communication."
An indictment preparation team, including Lindsey Halligan, FBI Director's Advisory Team agents, and FBI attorneys, conducted extensive rehearsals and exhibit reviews. Special Agent Spenser Warren raised texts that EDVA prosecutors had omitted from a prior interview of Dan Richman due to apparent privilege. On September 25, 2025, SA Warren briefed case agent Miles Starr and an FBI OGC attorney about messages to and from "Michael Garcia" (Daniel Richman). The FBI OGC attorney instructed excluding any communications referencing potential future legal representation. SA Warren provided a two-page document of text content dated May 11, 2017, predating the representation reference. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick noted a second agent may have been on the call.
Read at emptywheel
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]