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The Indictment of Charles McGonigal

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The Indictment of Charles McGonigal
Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office, leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York on Jan. 23, 2023. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Eric Felten
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One evening in May 2017, Charles “Charlie” McGonigal was about to take the stage to give a talk to the Foreign Policy Association when he learned that less than four months into his presidency, Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey.

Eric Felten
Eric Felten
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Eric Felten is an investigative correspondent for RealClearInvestigations, reporting on government corruption. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and previously a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University. Felten has been published in Washingtonian, People, National Geographic Traveler, The Weekly Standard, Daily Beast, National Review, Spectator USA, and Reader’s Digest.
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