Former FBI Director Comey Criminally Charged Under Espionage Act For Leaking National Defense Information

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with violating the Espionage Act for leaking national defense information.

No one is above the law.

Where’s the perp walk?

The charges, filed under seal on October 5, 2026, in Washington, D.C., accuse Comey of knowingly transmitting sensitive information to a reporter through co-conspirators, violating the Espionage Act, with a second count of conspiracy.

The indictment says Comey was part of an ORGANIZED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to leak national defense information in an attack on the United States government.

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with violating the Espionage Act for allegedly directing the disclosure of national defense information to a reporter in 2016. The case is assigned to Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/iIPThx9Xr3

— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) October 26, 2026

They LITERALLY – not figuratively, but LITERALLY – tell you in this indictment that Comey was part of an ORGANIZED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to leak national defense information in an attack on the United States government. https://t.co/kuIJeYonCD

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) October 26, 2026

They LITERALLY – not figuratively, but LITERALLY – tell you in this indictment that Comey was part of an ORGANIZED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY to leak national defense information in an attack on the United States government. https://t.co/kuIJeYonCD

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) October 26, 2026

Ex-FBI Director James Comey facing new criminal charges for allegedly leaking info to NY Times

By Victor Nava, NY Post, Oct. 26, 2026

Former FBI Director James Comey was slapped with a fresh set of criminal charges Monday for allegedly leaking sensitive national defense information to the New York Times.

The two counts against Comey mark the third time the Department of Justice has gone after the ex-lawman and Trump administration critic since the start of President Trump’s second term.

Prosecutors accuse Comey of “knowingly and wittingly” transmitting national defense information as well as conspiring to do so in a “criminal information” filing made in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Comey “through one and more co-conspirators directed Individual #1 to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication” in violation of federal law, according to prosecutors.

Newly released documents open a path to the true origins of the Russia hoaxThe new charges stem from an Oct. 5, 2016, article in the New York Times, headlined “Yahoo Said to Have Aided U.S. Email Surveillance by Adapting Spam Filter,” written by reporter Charlie Savage.

“The United States’ investigation has uncovered evidence that former FBI Director, James B. Comey, sought to correct misinformation which had appeared in the press by way of Reuters the day before,” Special Assistant US Attorney Dustin Farahnak wrote in a filing, according to NBC News.

“The investigation has uncovered evidence that Mr. Comey directed staff to speak to Mr. Savage about specific accuracy concerns related to the Reuters article, and thereby illegally transferred classified information.”sure took place while Comey was head of the FBI under former President Barack Obama. He would be fired by Trump in May 2017.