WATCH: James Comey Responds to New Federal Charges

James Comey Charged for Third Time — New Charge Looks Very Bad!

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BREAKING — JAMES COMEY CHARGED WITH NEW FEDERAL FELONIES: DOJ accuses disgraced former FBI Director James Comey of violating the ESPIONAGE ACT

This guy is in DEEP SH*T.

Per DOJ, Comey LEAKED national defense information to a national "reporter" via co-conspirators.

Comey… pic.twitter.com/pR6cPr7EV0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 26, 2026

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Comey is accused in the new case with knowingly communicating information related to national defense to a person not entitled to receive it.

He is also charged with conspiring with others to violate the law against sharing such information.

The charging document, known as an information, says Comey, “through one or more co-conspirators,” directed an unnamed individual “to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication.”

According to a court filing by Comey, who is seeking to dismiss the new case, the information relates to the “alleged disclosure of classified information” to The New York Times on Oct. 5, 2016.

Comey’s lawyers told a judge in that filing that the alleged disclosure “was investigated by two separate U.S. Attorneys over the past ten years. Both declined to prosecute.”

Comey has been repeatedly targeted by the Department of Justice under the administration of President Donald Trump, who fired him as FBI director in 2017. Both men have been fierce critics of one another since then.

The DOJ filed the information against Comey on Oct. 5 and asked a judge to seal it, citing the risk that an ongoing criminal investigation would be compromised by the charges becoming public. Judge Trevor McFadden granted that request that day.

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