Feds may have botched Comey indictment

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00:00Lindsay Halligan, President Trump's handpicked U.S. attorney responsible for the indictment of

00:04former FBI Director James Comey, has admitted to a trial judge that the full grand jury

00:10never saw the final version of the charges leveled against the disgraced lawman.

00:15Excuse me, what? That is not how the grand jury system works. Halligan revised the charges against

00:23Comey after the grand jury couldn't agree on one of them, and she told U.S. District Judge

00:28Michael Nachmanoff that when she presented the new version, quote, the foreperson and another

00:34grand juror was also present, but apparently not the rest of the group. And grand juries function

00:42similarly to a trial jury. So picture only two out of the 12 hearing a whole case before rendering a

00:49verdict. The judge actually called Halligan a, quote, puppet for President Trump. And another

00:55prosecutor insisted, though, that the revised indictment was only slightly changed from the

01:00original. Still, that's a change. But one of Comey's defense attorneys called for the case to be thrown

01:05out, claiming that the indictment had not been properly secured by the full grand jury before

01:10the statute of limitations expired. And if you'll remember, this came down to the wire. The expiration

01:17date was just a few days after Comey was charged. Now, this latest development is somewhat related to

01:23that issue I told you about earlier this week. Another U.S. judge had ordered Halligan to turn

01:28over all the grand jury documents that are kept under seal. The feds argued against that order,

01:33and that's how they ended up here on Wednesday, with the possibility that this whole thing could

01:39just get tossed out. Now, after Wednesday's back and forth, Halligan told the Post in part,

01:44quote, personal attacks like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a puppet don't change the facts or the law.

01:50My focus remains on the record and the law, and I will continue to fulfill my responsibilities

01:55with professionalism.