Comey Subpoenaed in 2016 Russia Probe Investigation

Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in Florida as part of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into the actions of intelligence and law enforcement officials during the 2016 presidential election and subsequent probes into Russian interference.

The subpoena, issued last week by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, seeks information about Comey's involvement in preparing the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment. That report, produced by multiple U.S. intelligence agencies, concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to benefit then-candidate Donald Trump and harm Hillary Clinton. A later review of the assessment identified procedural issues, including a rushed process and the inclusion of unverified information from the Steele dossier, a collection of reports compiled for Clinton's campaign. The investigation, overseen by a grand jury in Fort Pierce and U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is led by U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones.

This probe examines whether officials from the Obama and Biden administrations engaged in wrongdoing to undermine Trump, from the early stages of the...