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Sam Levine

Justice department charges ex-FBI director James Comey for third time

James Comey stands with a serious expression before a microphone at a hearing
James Comey testifies to the US Senate select committee intelligence on Capitol Hill in June 2017. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The justice department charged former FBI director James Comey on Monday with two counts of leaking information related to national defense, the third time the Trump administration has filed criminal charges against one of Donald Trump’s most despised foes.

The charges, filed in federal court in Washington DC, provide few details about what Comey is alleged to have leaked. The government alleges that the former FBI director leaked the information in 2016 and conspired with an unnamed person to give the information to a national news outlet.

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