跟进：司法部称可能对科米追加指控：正争取大陪审团起诉并称已握新证据
华盛顿——美国司法部 10月30日在一场联邦法庭听证会上表示，可能对前联邦调查局（FBI）局长詹姆斯·科米（James Comey）追加指控：检方正争取由 Washington 的大陪审团正式起诉，并称已在本案中掌握了新的证据。据 CNN 报道，主审此案的联邦法官 Trevor McFadden 接下来要裁定，现有的占位性质控罪能否存续。
本案源于今年 10 月初提出的一项指控：司法部指控科米在 2016 年合谋向一家媒体分享敏感信息，以纠正另一家媒体的报道。这项指控是以「刑事控告书」（information）的形式提出的，未经法官或大陪审团批准，本身不能直接把案件推进下去。此前，司法部的两次调查都没有就这起涉嫌泄密事件提出指控，其中一次由康涅狄格州联邦检察官 John Durham 经手，他在 2018 年决定不起诉。检方周五称，他们在 Durham 调查之后收到了新信息。
司法部律师在庭上表示，他们正考虑指控科米在 2016 年 10 月之后、一直到 2017 年 4 月的行为，这关系到《间谍法》定下的 10 年起诉期限问题。检方同时主张，法律中「起诉」一词应作更宽的理解，不限于大陪审团作出的正式起诉。科米的律师则向 McFadden 法官表示，相关法律不允许以刑事控告书的方式来暂停这一时效期限，政府等了十年、在最后一刻才出手。
McFadden 在听证结束时说，此案「至少有一个新颖问题」，并表示在自己作出裁定之前，司法部若选择先争取大陪审团起诉，那是检方的权利。他还警告检方，若对科米住所搞拂晓突袭式拘捕，他会「极为不满」；检方当庭承诺不会那样做。科米的律师在庭上说，联邦探员已被安排在科米家门外，此案已经悬在他的头上。
关联：前FBI局长科米第三度被起诉：司法部指控其2016年传递国防信息并指使他人向记者披露
Follow-Up: Justice Department Says It May Bring More Charges Against Comey, Seeks Grand Jury Indictment
Washington — The Justice Department told a federal judge on Friday that it may bring more charges against former FBI Director James Comey, saying prosecutors are working to obtain an indictment from a Washington, D.C., grand jury and have gathered additional evidence in the case, CNN reported. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden must now decide whether the placeholder charges can survive while that effort goes forward.
The case stems from charges brought in early October accusing Comey of conspiring in 2016 to share sensitive information with a media outlet in order to correct reporting from another outlet. The charges were filed as an information, meaning no judge or grand jury approved them and they cannot by themselves move the case forward. Two previous Justice Department investigations into the alleged leak did not result in charges, including one led by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, who declined to bring charges in 2018. Prosecutors said Friday they had received new information since Durham's investigation.
Justice Department attorneys told the court they are considering charging Comey with alleged crimes that occurred after October 2016, including through April 2017, which bears on the 10-year deadline for bringing charges under the Espionage Act. They argued that the term indictment in the law should be understood more broadly as a charging act, not merely a grand jury return. Comey's attorneys told Judge McFadden that the law does not allow a charge brought by information to pause the statute-of-limitations deadline, and that the government had waited until the last minute after a decade.
"There is at least one novel issue," McFadden said near the end of Friday's hearing, adding that it was the Justice Department's prerogative to seek a grand jury indictment before he issues a ruling. He warned prosecutors he would be extremely frustrated if there were a dawn raid on Comey's home, and prosecutors promised nothing like that would happen. Comey's attorney told the court that FBI agents have been placed outside Comey's home and that the case is already hanging over his head.
Related: Former FBI Director Comey Charged a Third Time: DOJ Alleges 2016 Transfer of Defense Information
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