The Trump Justice Department’s false-statement indictment against former FBI Director James Comey is so ill-conceived that the longer one analyzes it, the worse it gets. Plus, it is incoherently drafted, such that it fails to fulfill an indictment’s constitutional purpose; namely, to put the defendant on notice of what the government alleges he has done to violate the law.
As I observed after the charges were made public, the remaining false-statement charge (as opposed to the one the grand jury rejected) is unclear, to the point that one had to pore over the transcript of Comey’s Senate testimony and consult press reports to decipher the supposedly illegal conduct.
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