By Peter AitkenShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberFBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the Trump administration is not done with its pursuit of former FBI Director James Comey even after a federal judge dismissed the case against him.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie found that Lindsey Halligan had been appointed as interim U.S. Attorney just two days before Comey's case with no prior prosecutorial experience. Her disqualification renders her actions, including the signing of the indictments, legally invalid.
However, Patel said that the Trump administration will look at other options in their case against Comey even as the appeals process plays out.
"The judicial process can make whatever determination it wants, but we at the FBI and our partners at the DOJ have numerous options to proceed, and we're executing on all those options," Patel told Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek during an exclusive interview posted on X. "So we're not done."
Patel said he could not say too much due to the ongoing appeals process, but he said to "stay tuned for right after Thanksgiving, and you'll see multiple responses, in my opinion."
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