Lawyers for the Justice Department now say a grand jury did fully approve a final indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, backtracking answers given to a judge on Wednesday that suggested the indictment hadn't followed proper procedure.

Lindsey Halligan, interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in new statements Thursday that the grand jury approved a two-count indictment against Comey after it rejected one of the original three counts initially brought by the Justice Department.

The new filing describes the cause of the confusion as a "clerical inconsistency." It includes transcripts from when the two-count indictment was returned in September that appear to show that the jury approved of the revised two-count indictment.

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