The indictment of James Comey is not a victory for justice but a cautionary tale about what happens when a president turns prosecutors into political instruments. Donald Trump has spent years nursing grievances against the former FBI director who presided over the early Russia investigation. Now, back in office, Trump is pressing the Justice Department to settle his personal scores. The result is an indictment so thin, and so obviously tainted by presidential meddling, that it exposes Trump more than it damages Comey.

From the start, the case has been shaky. A grand jury even refused to endorse one of the charges pitched by prosecutors. What remains is a pair of counts built on disputed testimony and procedural quibbles, the sort of allegations normally handled administratively or dismiss

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