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🗞️ Story file #1105

Federal prosecutors charge james comey with Espionage Act violations

Oct 28, 8 PM ET to Oct 28, 8 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 28, 8 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 286 AM12 PM6 PMRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 26, 6:00 PM ET: DOJ Hits James Comey With New Espionage Act Charges — but There's a CatchThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Oct 26, 7:00 PM ET: James Comey Indicted Over Alleged National Security Leak To ReporterThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Oct 26, 7:00 PM ET: Breaking: Comey Charged for Reportedly Leaking National Security Secrets in 2016The Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 26, 9:00 PM ET: Comey Charged for Alleged Unauthorized Disclosure of National Security InformationThe BlazeThe BlazeThe Blaze, Oct 26, 9:00 PM ET: Comey charged with violating the Espionage ActCrooks and LiarsCrooks and LiarsCrooks and Liars, Oct 27, 10:00 AM ET: 'Back Again': James Comey Responds After 'Espionage' Charges From Trump's DOJ
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Back Again”1
  2. “Espionage”1

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Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

James ComeyDonald TrumpEspionage ActReporter

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 FBI director charged again

  1. Federal prosecutors charge james comey with Espionage Act violations (this story)

    Oct 28, 8 PM ET

  2. Justice Department charges former FBI Director James Comey for third time

    Oct 26, 6 PM ET

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