As the Justice Department's criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey looks increasingly imperiled , U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan and other DOJ officials are leveling unusual public attacks at the judge overseeing the case by mischaracterizing comments he made at a Wednesday hearing. "Personal attacks -- like Judge Nachmanoff referring to me as a 'puppet' -- don't change the facts or the law," Halligan said in an statement exclusively to the New York Post . "A federal judge should be neutral and impartial. Instead, this judge launched an outrageous and unprofessional personal attack yesterday in open court against US Attorney Lindsey Halligan. DOJ will continue to follow the facts and the law," DOJ spokesperson Chad Gilmartin said in a sta
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