Former FBI Director James Comey, with his attorney, David Kelley, right, speaks to reporters in December 2018 after a day of testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department engaged in a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, a federal judge ruled Monday in directing prosecutors to produce to defense lawyers all grand jury materials from the case.

Those problems, wrote Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick, include “fundamental misstatements of the law” by a prosecutor to the grand jury that indicted Comey in September, the use of potentially privileged communications dur

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