WASHINGTON — A day after the Justice Department acknowledged to a federal judge that the full grand jury had not reviewed the final indictment of former FBI Director James Comey , the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney overseeing the case abruptly reversed herself , insisting Thursday that the panel properly approved the charges as she tried to contain the fallout from earlier statements that risked imperiling the prosecution.

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The Trump-appointed prosecutor overseeing the James Comey case is insisting in a new court filing that the full grand jury approved the final indictment against the former FBI director

She is reversing course from statements a day earlier that defense lawyers had seized on to ask for a dismissal

The latest statements from Lindsey Halligan,

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