Using the U.S. Department of Justice to persecute an enemy represents a serious abuse of power, yet President Donald Trump and his DOJ underlings from Attorney General Pam Bondi on down seem perfectly happy to go after former FBI Director James Comey with the most threadbare of cases . Comey is alleged to have lied to Congress and obstructed a congressional investigation. That certainly sounds bad, but upon closer examination, there is not much there there.

Comey is charged with lying during a 2020 hearing about whether he had authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source for news reports years earlier. That the indictment was sought just days before the statute of limitations was about to kick in offers one clue about the validity of the charge. That a career prosecutor

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