Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged for the third time with federal crimes, according to a court filing unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., at Comey's request.
Comey is accused in the new case with knowingly communicating information related to national defense to a person not entitled to receive it.
He is also charged with conspiring with others to violate the law against sharing such information.
The charging document, known as an information, says Comey, "through one or more co-conspirators," directed an unnamed individual "to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication."
According to a court filing by Comey, who is seeking to dismiss the new case, the information relates to the "alleged disclosure of classified information" to The New York Times on Oct. 5, 2016.