Comey’s defense lawyer said in court on Wednesday their side believed the former FBI director’s constitutional rights may have been violated but still don’t know enough about the information federal investigators collected years ago.
The defense had requested that the judge give them the ability to review to any information that the government collected as part of their leak probe to ensure that prosecutors can’t “rummage through” old warrants for anything new that could incriminate Comey.
The Justice Department has until Thursday at 5 p.m. to provide Comey’s team with all of the details it recovered while searching Richman’s electronic accounts in 2019 and 2020, as well as all grand jury documents and transcripts.
“The government has had this for five and a half years … this is an unfair burden the government is placing on the defense, but I don’t see another path forward,” the judge said, referring to the enormity of the records the defense will have to review in a short amount of time.
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