Comey and James about to be indicted?
By 
Lindsey Halligan, Miss Colorado USA Semi-Finalist (2009)
Looking that way:
Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. Attorney in Virginia is planning to ask a grand jury in the coming days to indict former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress, despite prosecutors and investigators determining there was insufficient evidence to charge him, sources with direct knowledge of the probe told ABC News.
Earlier this week, prosecutors presented Lindsey Halligan — Trump’s former personal attorney whom he appointed to lead the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia — with a detailed memo recommending that she decline to bring perjury and obstruction charges against Comey, the sources familiar with the memo said.
A monthslong investigation into Comey by DOJ prosecutors failed to establish probable cause of a crime — meaning that not only would they be unable to secure a conviction of Comey by proving the claims beyond a reasonable doubt, but that they couldn’t reach a significantly lower standard to secure an indictment, the sources said.
According to Justice Department guidelines, prosecutors are generally barred from bringing charges unless they can prove a defendant will “more likely than not be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by an unbiased trier of fact and that the conviction will be upheld on appeal.”
Despite their recommendations, Halligan — who has never prosecuted a criminal case in her career as an insurance lawyer — plans to present evidence to a grand jury before the statute of limitations for the alleged offense expires next week, the sources said.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to pressure his lapdog prosectors to bring what appear to be bogus mortgage fraud charges against Letitia James:
The investigations into this form of alleged fraud in the case of Attorney General James have yielded little in terms of concrete evidence that any crimes have been committed by anyone. An investigation into Comey’s involvement in the Mueller investigation from the first Trump presidency appeared to be bringing about little in the way of indictable offenses. The cases are so weak that Eric Siebert, who was until last week the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who was investigating James and Comey, was reluctant to bring cases against any of them because there was insufficient evidence to justify indictments in either case. That did not stop the president from pressuring Siebert to bring the cases anyway or step down, which he did Friday.
On one level, nobody deserves to be persecuted by a corrupt president more than James Comey, whose cowardice and stupidity in October of 2016 played such a key role in making sure the bad fascist joke that is Donald Trump’s political career wasn’t strangled in its crib.
On another, what Trump is doing here is actually worse than what forced Richard Nixon’s resignation, and put his former attorney general in prison.
We are sleepwalking into authoritarianism.