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Career prosecutors recommended against charging Comey before Lindsey Halligan took over the case.

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Sources told ABC News that prosecutors wrote a memo to the new U.S. attorney recommending against plans to charge Comey, saying they couldn't establish probable cause. Career prosecutor Erik Siebert d...

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