{"id":"1793049712219-news-show_open","slug":"comey-reportedly-charged-over-2016-leaks","title":"Comey Reportedly Charged Over 2016 Leaks","summary":"ICE and DHS did publicly allege that Moussa Diawara had claimed to be gay to avoid deportation, and 60 Minutes did portray him as a Houston father and Uber driver. 60 Minutes also reported that an immigration judge had barred his removal to Mali, but he was later sent from Ghana to Mali; his wife and children live in Texas.","publishedAt":"2026-10-26T21:21:52.219Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"Washington","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: ICE and DHS did publicly allege that Moussa Diawara had claimed to be gay to avoid deportation, and 60 Minutes did portray him as a Houston father and Uber driver. 60 Minutes also reported that an immigration judge had barred his removal to Mali, but he was later sent from Ghana to Mali; his wife and children live in Texas.\nSource: [dailymail.com](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16239171/60-Minutes-deportations-Ghana-Mali-Moussa-Diawara-gay-lied.html), [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsn (https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2114821826622754937)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"ICE and DHS did publicly allege that Moussa Diawara had claimed to be gay to avoid deportation, and 60 Minutes did portray him as a Houston father and Uber driver. 60 Minutes also reported that an immigration judge had barred his removal to Mali, but he was later sent from Ghana to Mali; his wife and children live in Texas.","sourceName":"[dailymail.com](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16239171/60-Minutes-deportations-Ghana-Mali-Moussa-Diawara-gay-lied.html), [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsn","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2114821826622754937","claim":"ICE says a deported man featured in a '60 Minutes' interview claimed to be gay to avoid deportation to Mali...despite having a wife and two children. The program portrayed him as a “Texas father” who was detained after living in the U.S. for 25 years and working as an Uber https:","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2114821826622754937","name":"[dailymail.com](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16239171/60-Minutes-deportations-Ghana-Mali-Moussa-Diawara-gay-lied.html), [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsn","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793049712219-news-show_open-comey-reportedly-charged-over-2016-leaks","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/news","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793049712219-news-show_open-comey-reportedly-charged-over-2016-leaks","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793049712219-news-show_open-comey-reportedly-charged-over-2016-leaks and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Brian","text":"Oncast, Monday afternoon—and James Comey is suddenly back in the news."},{"host":"Brian","text":"BNO News reports the former FBI director has been charged with leaking national defense information to a reporter back in 2016."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Hold on. Charged? That's a big word for a wire report. No official court filing yet?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"Right, no confirmation from the Justice Department or Comey's team. But BNO is usually solid. If true, this is the man who ran the FBI during the Clinton email investigation now facing charges about leaks."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And this isn't gossip. National defense information is serious. But let's be clear: it's a report, not an indictment we've seen."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fair. But you remember 2016. Comey publicly reopened the Clinton case days before the election. He's a lightning rod for both parties. Some will see this as long-overdue accountability; others as political payback."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's exactly why the sourcing matters. Until the Justice Department says it on the record, I'm treating it as a report."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Understood. But it already has people picking sides."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Different fight, and this one comes from ICE: ICE says a man featured on 60 Minutes as a sympathetic deportee lied about being gay to avoid being sent to Mali—despite having a wife and two kids in Texas."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Oh, that segment got a lot of attention. They showed him as a Houston father and Uber driver here 25 years, and a judge had even blocked his deportation to Mali."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Yes, and 60 Minutes reported that judge's order. But ICE and Homeland Security say he made the gay claim to stop removal, and he was later sent from Ghana to Mali anyway. His family is still in Texas."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So who's misleading here? The man, or the program that gave him a national platform without digging into that claim?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Both can be true. His family's suffering is real. But if ICE's allegation is accurate, it undercuts the segment's whole narrative."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And that's the problem with advocacy journalism. You don't get to pick the sympathetic details and skip the ones that complicate the story."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Now you're being unfair to 60 Minutes. They did report the judge's ruling. The question is whether they knew about the alleged lie and left it out."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Either way, it's a mess for everyone involved—and another reason people don't trust either side's version until the documents come out."}]}