{"id":1011,"date":"2026-05-13T12:42:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:42:51","slug":"second-indictment-of-ex-fbi-chief-james-comey-signals-retaliation-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Second indictment of ex-FBI chief James Comey signals retaliation fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say latest move by acting attorney general suggests more cases against foes amid claims of vindictive DoJ<\/p>\n<p>The second indictment of ex-FBI director James Comey, a top target of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> in his drive for revenge against critics, suggests more charges could be coming against other Trump foes as the US president continues to use the department of justice to settle political scores, ex-prosecutors and law professors said.<\/p>\n<p>Legal critics also see the new indictment by acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, as \u201cembarrassing\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d and revealing Blanche\u2019s desire to quickly appease Trump and persuade him to make his appointment as America\u2019s top justice official permanent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/james-comey-fbi-retaliation-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say latest move by acting attorney general suggests more cases against foes amid claims of vindictive DoJ The second indictment of ex-FBI director James Comey, a top target of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1011\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}