FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the case into former FBI Director James Comey is not over after a federal judge tossed his criminal indictment earlier this week.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Epoch Times that was released on Saturday, Patel said the FBI and Department of Justice are weighing “numerous options” to keep the case, which centers on an alleged false statement and obstruction of Congress, alive.
“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. So we’re not done,” he said.
Patel teased an announcement to come after the Thanksgiving holiday, which will include “multiple responses” from federal law enforcement agencies.
The comments are not entirely surprising, as Attorney General Pam Bondi immediately vowed to appeal the ruling after it came down. She said the DOJ would pursue “all available legal action” without elaborating on what that could be.
But questions remain over who can bring the charges against Comey after the ruling removed the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, from the case, saying she was illegally installed.
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Halligan, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump, had been appointed as an acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia in September, bringing the case against Comey mere days later.
Comey himself has denied all wrongdoing, recently calling the case one “based on malevolence and incompetence.” But the Trump administration maintains the indictment was only thrown out over a technicality, and President Donald Trump has previously said the former FBI director is “guilty as hell.”