The Department of Justice could soon be dealing with a massive public relations issue after it was revealed that its case against former FBI Director Jim Comey could be on the brink of going away due to lazy errors.

According to the New York Post, earlier this week, a federal judge ordered prosecutors to hand a trove of secret grand jury documents regarding Comey's case to the former FBI director's lawyers. 

The reason for the order is not looking great for the Trump administration and the Department of Justice, as Comey's attorneys claimed there is "a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that … potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding."

If that's the case, the case against Comey could quickly disappear just as quickly as it began.

What's going on?

US Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick wasn't kind to the Justice Department in his 24-page ruling regarding the records.

The Post noted:

In a 24-page ruling, US Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick accused the feds of flouting attorney-client privilege to secure an indictment of President Trump’s longtime nemesis, ripped interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan for “fundamental misstatements of the law” to the panel, and flagged unexplained irregularities in the grand jury transcript.

Legal experts do not believe it's a great look for the DOJ, and could wind up being a massive embarrassment.

One of the primary issues included a dispute over when the prosecuting attorney last spoke with the grand jury before the indictments were handed up.

The Post noted:

Specifically, the judge laid out a timeline of the day the two-count indictment of Comey was handed up, noting that Halligan claimed to the court that she last had contact with the grand jury at 4:28 p.m., while the panelists were deliberating.

However, the grand jury rejected one additional count against the former top lawman, necessitating prosecutors to draw up a second indictment for Halligan to sign.

The argument from Comey's legal defense team is that if the times weren't correct, then the "the transcript and audio recording provided to the Court are incomplete."

They keep going

Comey's lawyers significantly picked apart the case.

"The government’s decision to allow an agent who was exposed to potentially privileged information to testify before a grand jury is highly irregular and a radical departure from past DOJ practice,” his attorney stated.

They added, "The government’s position that privileged materials were not directly shared with the grand jurors ignores the equally unacceptable prospect that privileged materials were used to shape the government’s presentation and therefore improperly inform the grand jurors’ deliberations."

Only time will tell if Comey's lawyers are able to make a case and save their client.