Judge scolds Justice Department for ‘profound investigative missteps’ in Comey case

WASHINGTON AP The Justice Department engaged in a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps when it secured an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey a federal judge ruled Monday in directing prosecutors to produce to defense lawyers all grand jury materials from the episode Those problems wrote Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick include fundamental misstatements of the law by a prosecutor to a grand jury that indicted Comey in September the use of potentially privileged communications in the analysis and unexplained irregularities in the transcript of the grand jury proceedings