Of course, that doesn’t mean Judge Nachmanoff is guaranteed to see it that way. Nor does it mean the indictment is immune to the other challenges Comey’s defense team is throwing at it. But as for the breathless claims floating around that the grand jury “never even saw the indictment” and all the dramatic ZOMG! hand-wringing — people need to calm down. The grand jury did see the indictment. It just originally contained an additional count they declined to endorse. That count was removed. Nothing new was slipped in; something they didn’t approve was simply taken out.
