In their haste to shore up that shaky case before it was too late, FBI agents took shortcuts that cast doubt on the indictment's validity, U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick found.

The hearing Wednesday morning in the case against former FBI Director James Comey ended with a revelation by prosecutors and a conundrum: if a full grand jury never reviewed the final set of charges h...

“The grand jury voted to reject the only indictment that the government presented to it,” Comey’s attorneys wrote in Friday’s filing.