WASHINGTON — Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey has been granted access to all grand jury materials in his case after a federal judge found “profound investigative missteps” that could result in the dismissal of Comey’s indictment.

Eastern District of Virginia Federal Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick wrote Monday that issues with evidence, testimony and statements to the grand jury outweigh the usual heavily guarded secrecy of proceedings.

The government filed a motion for an emergency stay hours after the order.

In the 24-page order, Fitzpatrick delivered a scathing account of the government’s mishandling, and possibly illegal access to, evidence presented to grand jurors, including a potential Fourth Amendment violation.

Additionally, the single person to

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