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...or at best, concealed it.
Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins
Judge Cameron McGowan Currie says a section of the grand jury transcript in James Comeys case is missing.
Currie said that she did not receive transcripts for several minutes of the proceedings from late September.
____Judge Currie said Thursday that a section of the grand jury transcript in James Comeys case is missing.
Currie said that she did not receive transcripts for part of the proceedings from late September.
It appears there was no court reporter present, the judge said, or the court reporter had stopped taking notes.
The missing section is important because Attorney General Pam Bondi had said she reviewed the presentations as part of the governments arguments that Lindsey Halligan had the authority to secure an indictment against the former FBI director.
It became obvious to me that the attorney general could not have reviewed the entire proceeding, Currie said.
The missing portion of the grand jury transcripts that Currie referred to was from 4:28pm ET until the return of the indictment, which happened much later in the evening.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/lindsey-halligan-hearing-comey-james-11-13-25

Rose Mary Woods attempting to demonstrate how she may have inadvertently created the gap
FakeNoose
(39,590 posts)So basically the hearing is null and void, because Halligan didn't know any better.
Deuxcents
(24,873 posts)And the Defense caught it, I think, so she tried to pull a fast one?
bigtree
(93,257 posts)...is it really about this idiot subterfuge?
That would be an amazing scandal.
Genius Trump Attorney Submitted Wrong Comey Indictment Docs to Judge
The grand jury on Thursday voted to indict Comey on two of three counts sought by Halliganfalse statements and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
Halligan failed to convince 12 jurors to vote for another false statements charge, related to Comeys answers to Senator Lindsey Graham during a September 2020 hearing. (Comey had replied, That doesnt ring any bells with me, when asked by Graham if officials informed the FBI that Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign was going to create a scandal regarding Trump and Russia to distract from her email scandal.)
After the jury rejected that charge, prosecutors presented U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala with an indictment with just the two others. But, as The Washington Post reports, Halligan accidentally gave the judge both indictments Thursday evening, prompting confusion.
This has never happened before. Ive been handed two documents ... with a discrepancy, Vaala said. Im a little confused why I was handed two things ... that were inconsistent.
https://newrepublic.com/post/200983/trump-comey-indictment-rocky-start-lindsey-halligan-doj
FakeNoose
(39,590 posts)(3) Currie said that the beginning and ending of Halligans presentation of the Comey indictment were not recorded and that for a stretch the court reporter was either absent from the room or not recording at all. Its embarrassing and undermines the subtext of the Trump administrations argument that the cases were handled perfectly routinely even though Halligan is an insurance lawyer with no experience as a prosecutor who was hastily appointed by her former client Trump to beat the statute of limitations clock, which was about to strike midnight in the Comey case. In short, the new revelations further highlighted how nothing about either case is normal.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-bondi-lindsey-halligan-appointment-james-comey-letitia-james
The Grand Jury hearing ran overtime and the court reporter had to leave to pick up her kids. There was nobody to record the proceedings. And yet Lisa Halligan submitted it anyway and Pam Bondi said she reviewed and approved the court transcripts. (She obviously lied.)
bigtree
(93,257 posts)...no one told them to knock off or anything, right?
RockRaven
(18,464 posts)With him and his goons, assume malice and the incompetence is an optional add-on. That is the pattern they have established.
gab13by13
(30,730 posts)Was deliberate.
vapor2
(3,482 posts)Marie Marie
(10,750 posts)No way. Trump would never allow it. He is a letter of the law kinda guy - that's just the way he rolls.