The criminal indictment against former FBI director James Comey will be parsed on the law , the facts, and the question of whether the Trump administration’s decision to indict a person on Donald Trump’s enemies’ list in the first place amounted to a vindictive and selective prosecution. All of those analyses have their place, and Comey has already indicated that he has “great confidence in the federal judicial system” such that he is willing to proceed with a public trial to clear his name.

Yet the reason he finds himself in the president’s crosshairs, apart from the subservience of a newly appointed U.S. attorney in Virginia with no experience in criminal law, and an attorney general who can’t even bring herself to refer to Comey by name on the day of his indictment, can be trac

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