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雅各布·罗森 司法部记者
杰克·罗森是负责报道美国司法部的记者。此前他曾担任竞选数字记者，报道特朗普总统2024年竞选活动，还曾担任《玛格丽特·布伦南面对全国》节目的助理制片人。
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前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米于周二晚间提交新动议，试图推翻联邦指控。这些指控称他通过发布一张排列成“86 47”数字的贝壳照片，威胁总统特朗普的安全，科米将这项起诉描述为多年来因批评总统而遭受惩罚的最新一击，并指控政府存在不当行为。
这份文件附带一份长达76页的电子表格，列出了过去九年来特朗普和科米两人互相攻击的所有言论，主张应以报复性起诉和选择性起诉为由驳回这项起诉。科米的律师还请求法院排除针对科米账户搜查令获取的证据，并要求政府披露导致他被起诉的大陪审团审理程序。
“在此案中，政府之所以单独起诉科米先生，是因为特朗普总统对科米先生及其受保护的言论怀有敌意，而且这一行为直接响应了总统的敦促，以及科米先生成功驳回先前一项起诉的动议，”这位前联邦调查局局长的律师辩称。
美国司法部否认科米是因其政治观点而被单独起诉。
在驳回动议中，科米还指控美国特勤局在2025年春季科米发布Instagram帖子后不久，在没有搜查令的情况下，“应司法部一名高级官员的要求对科米先生开展非法电子监视”。
科米的律师提交的文件显示，特勤局工作人员曾讨论“定位”科米的手机以追踪其位置，部分人员对此持怀疑态度，同时还有人因“紧急”情况请求威瑞森公司提供位置信息。当时，科米正准备从北卡罗来纳州前往他在弗吉尼亚州的家中。
“当时我们不认为任何人的生命面临直接危险，从法律上讲，定位手机是个糟糕的主意，”一名未具名的特勤局官员在一条消息中说道。
这些关于监视的细节，以及其他有关政府仓促调查科米的指控，均来自科米的律师帕特里克·菲茨杰拉德提交的一份宣誓书，他援引了“政府提供的大量调查材料”。
科米的法律团队还请求举行弗兰克斯听证会，这是一项法庭程序，负责审理此案的法官将裁定政府是否在批准搜查令时误导或欺骗了治安法官。在本案中，搜查令涉及这位前联邦调查局局长及其妻子的数字账户。
科米的法律团队表示，这些搜查令所依据的宣誓书“省略了宣誓人已知的事实”，并“用重大虚假陈述误导了治安法官，荒谬地暗示科米的律师（前美国检察官）和科米的妻子阻碍了政府的调查”。
科米的律师写道，搜查令申请提及了一名认识并与科米妻子交谈过的人。周二提交的法庭文件称，在接受联邦执法部门的采访时，这名证人“承认他们与科米先生已经疏远，至少两年没有和他说过话”，并且“明确表达了他们对科米的强烈偏见”。
再次援引菲茨杰拉德审查的证据，科米的法律团队表示，这名证人在两次采访中都告诉执法人员，他们最初看到“86 47”的帖子时，以为这与餐厅俚语有关，指的是餐厅没有某道菜单菜品，直到他们收听了鲁迪·朱利安尼的播客节目。
随后，联邦调查局在2025年9月搜查了其数据库中与科米经办案件相关的“86”一词的任何提及内容，根据科米律师提交的法庭消息记录，一名联邦调查局工作人员称结果“毫无定论”。
对联邦调查局关于约翰·甘比诺黑帮老大案件的档案进行的另一项搜查也未发现相关术语。甘比诺是科米在20世纪90年代起诉的对象。菲茨杰拉德写道，科米被起诉后，一名联邦调查局特工和一名联邦检察官还采访了萨尔瓦托雷“公牛萨米”格拉瓦诺——甘比诺犯罪家族的前成员，并询问科米是否曾与他讨论过“86”一词。格拉瓦诺表示不太可能和科米提起这个词，但他确实说过这个词可以表示“杀死”。
此次新的一系列法庭文件提交的前一天，科米要求负责审理此案的美国地区法官路易丝·W·弗拉纳根以其他理由驳回对他的起诉。他辩称，对他的起诉针对的是受第一修正案保护的言论，而作为起诉核心的“86 47”短语并非真正针对特朗普的威胁。
科米去年在另一项案件中被起诉，该项指控他在2020年向国会撒谎。他和他的法律团队以类似理由请求驳回该案，但负责审理此案的弗吉尼亚州联邦法官从未对此作出裁决。相反，法官以负责起诉科米的检察官被违宪任命为临时美国检察官为由驳回了该案。
科米将于9月30日在北卡罗来纳州新伯尔尼就两项威胁杀害总统的指控接受传讯。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已就周二提交的文件联系司法部、美国特勤局和科米的法律团队置评。
针对科米的一系列刑事指控源于这位总统与这位前联邦调查局局长之间长达数年的不和，这可以追溯到2017年特朗普在第一任期内解雇科米之时。从那时起，科米严厉批评特朗普，称他“在道德上不适合担任总统”，而特朗普则称科米是“肮脏的警察”，并暗示要起诉他。
2025年5月，科米在Instagram上发布了一张海滩上的贝壳排列成“86 47”数字的照片。他没有明确说明其含义，但“eighty-six”通常意为“驱逐”或“摆脱”，而特朗普是美国第47任总统。
特朗普及其盟友指控科米威胁总统的生命，科米强烈否认，称他偶然发现这些贝壳，并认为这是一个“政治信息”。他删除了该帖子，表示“反对任何形式的暴力”。
特勤局迅速展开调查，科米也接受了特工的采访，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻此前曾报道过此事。此事在之后近一年的时间里未公开，直到代理司法部长托德·布兰奇在4月公布了对科米的指控。
要以选择性起诉为由驳回起诉，被告需要证明他们是因歧视性原因被起诉，且“处境相似”的人并未因相同行为被起诉。要证明报复性起诉，被告需要证明他们被起诉完全出于敌意，或是为了惩罚他们行使合法权利。法院通常对这类主张持怀疑态度。
作为证据，科米的法律团队指出，网上有大量带有“86 47”或“86 46”（指前总统乔·拜登）信息的商品在售，而政府并未采取类似措施起诉卖家。
他们还指出了特朗普“对科米进行人身攻击并呼吁通过刑事起诉报复”的历史。他们认为，在先前针对科米的撒谎国会指控被驳回后，司法部出于“政治权宜”对科米提起了威胁特朗普的指控。
科米的律师还分享了电子邮件，显示在科米接受特勤局采访的当天，一名与特朗普及其团队一同乘坐空军一号出行的特勤局官员询问了最新进展，并表示他“收到了大量疑问”。
布兰奇否认科米是因政治原因被起诉，他今年早些时候告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，此案是由北卡罗来纳州的“当地检察官”牵头的。
在另一次哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访中，被问及特朗普是否指示了这项起诉时，布兰奇说：“当然没有，绝对、肯定没有。”
“如果这个国家里有人认为——尤其是考虑到过去两年关于特朗普总统发生的事情——任何人都可以威胁美国总统……然后媒体或其他人说，好吧，那不是认真的，那么我们这个国家面临的问题比我想象的还要严重，”布兰奇说。
Comey claims DOJ conducted “illegal” surveillance in new motion seeking dismissal of Trump threat charges
July 29, 2026 / 1:31 AM EDT / CBS News
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Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Former FBI Director James Comey filed new motions late Tuesday in his effort to toss out federal charges accusing him of threatening President Trump’s by posting a photo of seashells arranged to form the numbers “86 47,” casting the indictment as the latest salvo in a yearslong effort to punish him for criticizing the president — and accusing the government of misconduct.
The filing — accompanied by a 76-page-long spreadsheet listing out all of the insults Mr. Trump and Comey have hurled at each other over the last nine years — argues the indictment should be dismissed on the grounds of vindictive and selective prosecution. Comey’s lawyers also asked the court to suppress evidence from warrants for Comey’s accounts, and to force the government to disclose the grand jury proceedings that led to his indictment.
“Here, the government has singled out Mr. Comey for prosecution because President Trump harbors animus toward Mr. Comey and his protected speech, and it has done so in direct response to the President’s urgings and Mr. Comey’s successful motion to dismiss a prior indictment,” the former FBI chief’s attorneys argued.
The Justice Department has denied that Comey is being singled out due to his political views.
In the motion to dismiss, Comey also accused the U.S. Secret Service of conducting “illegal electronic surveillance of Mr. Comey at the request of a high-level DOJ official” without a warrant shortly after Comey’s spring 2025 Instagram post.
Filings submitted by his lawyers show discussions between Secret Service staff about “pinging” Comey’s phone to track its location, which some personnel viewed skeptically, and a request for Verizon to provide location information due to an “emergency” situation. At the time, Comey was set to travel from North Carolina to his Virginia home.
“At that time we did not believe that anyone’s life was in immediate danger and legally it was a bad idea to ping the phone,” an unnamed Secret Service official said in one message.
Those details on the surveillance — along with other allegations about the government’s scramble to investigate Comey — are from an affidavit filed by Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, who cited “substantial discovery provided by the Government.”
Comey’s legal team is also asking for a Franks hearing, a court proceeding where the judge overseeing his case would determine if the government misled or lied to the magistrate judge who approved search warrants. In this case, the warrants are related to digital accounts belonging to the former FBI director and his wife.
The affidavits at the center of those search warrants, Comey’s legal team said, “omitted facts known to the affiant,” and “misled the magistrates with material falsehoods, bizarrely insinuating that Mr. Comey’s lawyer (a former U.S. Attorney) and Mr. Comey’s wife had obstructed the government’s investigation.”
Comey’s lawyers wrote that the warrant applications cited a person who knew and spoke to Comey’s wife. In interviews with federal law enforcement, Tuesday’s court filings said, that witness “admitted that they had been estranged from Mr. Comey and had not spoken to him for at least two years,” and “made clear their intense bias” against Comey.
Again citing the evidence reviewed by Fitzgerald, Comey’s legal team said the witness told law enforcement in both interviews that their first reaction to the “86 47” post was that it was related to restaurant slang that an establishment was out of a menu item, until they listened to an episode of Rudy Giuliani’s podcast.
Then, the FBI in September 2025 searched its database for any references to the term “86” in cases that Comey worked on, which an FBI staffer said produced “inconclusive results,” according to messages filed in court by Comey’s lawyers.
A separate search of the FBI’s file in the case of mob boss John Gambino, whom Comey prosecuted in the 1990s, also turned up no references to the term. After Comey was indicted, Fitzgerald wrote, an FBI agent and a federal prosecutor also interviewed Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a former member of the Gambino crime family, and asked if Comey ever discussed the term “86” with him. Gravano doubted he would have brought up the term with Comey, though he did say it can mean “to kill.”
The new slate of court filings came one day after Comey asked U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, who is overseeing his case, to dismiss the indictment against him on separate grounds. He argued the case against him targets speech protected by the First Amendment, and that the “86 47” phrase at the heart of the indictment is not a true threat against Mr. Trump.
Comey was indicted last year in a different case that accused him of lying to Congress in 2020. He and his legal team moved to dismiss that case on similar grounds, but the Virginia federal judge overseeing the case never ruled on the issue. Instead, the judge dismissed it on the grounds that the prosecutor who secured the indictment against him was unconstitutionally appointed to her role as interim U.S. attorney.
Comey is set to be arraigned on the two charges of threatening to kill the president on Sept. 30 in New Bern, North Carolina.
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department, the U.S. Secret Service and Comey’s legal team for comment on Tuesday’s filings.
The bout of criminal charges against Comey follow a years-long feud between the president and the former FBI leader, dating back to when Mr. Trump fired Comey during his first term in 2017. Since then, Comey has castigated Mr. Trump and called him “morally unfit” to be president, while Mr. Trump has called Comey a “dirty cop” and mused about prosecuting him.
In May 2025, Comey posted on Instagram a photo of seashells on a beach arrayed to form the numbers “86 47.” He didn’t make his meaning clear, but “eighty-six” typically means “eject” or “get rid of,” and Mr. Trump is the 47th president.
Mr. Trump and his allies accused Comey of threatening the president’s life, which Comey strongly denied, saying he came across the shells and assumed they were a “political message.” He deleted the post, saying he “oppose[s] violence of any kind.”
The Secret Service quickly launched an investigation, and Comey was interviewed by agents, CBS News has previously reported. The matter remained out of the public eye for nearly a year after that, until Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche unveiled charges against Comey in April.
In order to get an indictment tossed for selective prosecution, a defendant needs to show that they were charged for a discriminatory reason and that “similarly situated” people haven’t been prosecuted for the same conduct. To show vindictive prosecution, a defendant needs to show that they were prosecuted solely out of animus or to punish them for exercising a legal right. Courts tend to be skeptical of these claims.
As evidence, Comey’s legal team noted that vast amounts of merchandise with the message “86 47” or “86 46” — referring to former President Joe Biden — is available for sale online, and the government has not taken similar steps to prosecute the sellers.
They also pointed to Mr. Trump’s history of “personal attacks and calls to retaliate against Mr. Comey through criminal prosecution.” They suggested that the Justice Department pursued charges against Comey for threatening Mr. Trump “based on political expediency” after their previous indictment for lying to Congress was tossed out.
And Comey’s lawyers shared emails showing that on the day of Comey’s Secret Service interview, an official at the agency who was traveling on Air Force One with Mr. Trump and his team asked for updates, saying he was “getting LOTS of questions.”
Blanche has denied that Comey was prosecuted for political reasons, telling CBS News earlier this year that the case was spearheaded by “local prosecutors” in North Carolina.
Asked in a separate CBS News interview if Mr. Trump directed the indictment, Blanche said: “Of course not, absolutely, positively not.”
“If anybody in this country thinks — especially given what happened over the past couple of years with respect to President Trump — that it is okay for anybody to threaten the president of the United States … and then have the media or others say, well that’s not serious, then we have a bigger problem than I even imagined in this country,” Blanche said.