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PEN America condemns lawyers using passage from thriller to bolster claim ex-FBI director intended to harm Trump A leading US free-expression group has hit out at federal prosecutors’ use of a novel written by former FBI director James Comey in their case accusing him of threatening to kill Donald Trump. “Citing a novel to save an indictment that is constitutionally dubious is a desperate Hail Mary and should be rejected,” said a statement posted on Friday by Mara Gassmann, legal director of PEN America, using a term for a last-second heave in American football. Continue reading...
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PEN America condemns lawyers using passage from thriller to bolster claim ex-FBI director intended to harm Trump A leading US free-expression group has hit out at federal prosecutors’ use of a novel written by former FBI director James Comey in their case accusing him of threatening to kill Donald Trump. “Citing a novel to save an indictment that is constitutionally dubious is a desperate Hail Mary and should be rejected,” said a statement posted on Friday by Mara Gassmann, legal director of PEN America, using a term for a last-second heave in American football. Continue reading...
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AIPROPX has consolidated 2 reports from 2 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Free speech group calls foul play at prosecutors using Comey novel in case against him.” The covered outlets are based across 2 regions — Other and UK.
The earliest report in this entry came from The Guardian US (Aug 22, 2026, 16:32 UTC); the most recent came from LAist (Aug 23, 2026, 12:01 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “fbi director”.
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