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US Justice Department may seek disqualification of former FBI Director James Comey’s defence lawyer

October 20, 2025 10:53 pm

Prosecutors referred in the filing to a 2019 Justice Department inspector general report that found that Fitzgerald played a role in media disclosures in 2017 after Comey’s dismissal.

‘I’m innocent, let’s have a trial’: Former FBI Director James Comey responds to indictment

Former FBI director James Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges after Trump's call for prosecution

October 08, 2025 8:21 pm

Comey made his first appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Wednesday, facing charges stemming from his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020, when he denied authorising leaks to reporters.

Trump administration secretly seized phone records of New York Times reporters

June 03, 2021 10:33 am

Last month, the Biden Justice Department disclosed Trump-era seizures of the phone logs of reporters who work for The Washington Post and the phone and email logs for a CNN reporter.

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Trump campaign aide sues over Russia probe surveillance

November 29, 2020 3:40 pm

A former Trump campaign associate, who was the target of a secret surveillance warrant during the FBI's Russia investigation, says that he was the victim of "unlawful spying."

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Former FBI director James Comey is criticized over handling of memos about Trump

August 29, 2019 11:58 pm

Trump and his allies are sure to use the report’s conclusions to attack Comey, whom the president fired abruptly in 2017 and partly blames for opening the Russia investigation. In a tweet, Trump said Comey should be "ashamed of himself".

Sixteen women sue FBI, alleging a ‘Good Old Boy Network’ at its training academy

May 31, 2019 12:04 pm

According to the lawsuit, male instructors at the academy in Quantico, Virginia, exposed the women to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment and inappropriate jokes.

McConnell says he has confidence in Mueller

AG nominee sent memo on Mueller probe to Trump's lawyers

January 15, 2019 10:25 am

Democrats were already seeking to question Barr about the memo, which he sent, unsolicited, to the Justice Department in June.

Ex-FBI chief James Comey says Donald Trump undermines rule of law with 'lies'

December 18, 2018 8:20 am

Comey said lawmakers had again asked about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails and a dossier that Republicans claim was used to justify a warrant to conduct secret surveillance of a Trump presidential campaign aide.

Former FBI chief James Comey: Russia investigation initially looked at four Americans

December 09, 2018 8:15 am

Comey also told the House Judiciary Committee that, contrary to Trump's claims, he was "not friends in any social sense" with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is now leading the Russia investigation.

Former FBI director James Comey agrees to testify privately before Republican lawmakers

December 03, 2018 10:18 am

Comey's lawyers told a federal judge on Friday that the interview should be done in a public setting because they fear that statements from a closed-door interview would be selectively leaked.