Posted on 02/14/2020 9:46:20 AM PST by SkyPilot
Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether he lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe’s legal team said Friday.
The decision resolves a criminal investigation that spanned more than a year and began with a referral from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said McCabe repeatedly lied about having authorized a subordinate to share information with a newspaper reporter for a 2016 article about an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
McCabe’s lawyers said in a statement they were told in a phone call and letter that the case is closed and “no charges will be brought against him based on the facts.”
McCabe, a frequent target of attacks from President Donald Trump, has denied that he intentionally misled anyone. He has said his 2018 firing — for what the Justice Department called “lack of candor” — was politically motivated. He sued the Justice Department in August, saying officials had used the inspector general’s conclusions as a pretext to rid the FBI of leaders Trump perceived as biased against him.
In a letter on Friday, prosecutors told McCabe’s lawyers that they decided “not to pursue criminal charges against your client” after careful consideration.
“Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed,” said the letter, signed by the chief of the U.S. attorney’s office’s public corruption unit.
The decision was revealed at the week of startling tensions between Trump and the Justice Department over the treatment of one of the Republican president’s longtime allies and confidants, Roger Stone.
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the chief of the U.S. attorney’s office’s public corruption unit.
.. is a tool of the Left. Sad. The Republic deserves better than justice delayed and justice denied.
Are you really under the impression that nobody has been working to turn this thing around?
Look around out there. Conservatism is exploding on the right and Blacks and other minorities are buying in.
The Left and our government are not.
In Sept 2019, Jessie Liu (who was US DC Attny, and yes the same person Trump pulled her nomination this week), she recommended moving forward with prosecuting McCabe. His attorneys appealed all the way up to Deputy AG, Rosen..... Rosen refused the appeal, and wrote a letter back to McCabe’s attorneys...... (there is a FOX news story on this from Sept 2019)....
So the “swamp” , all the way up to Deputy AG, basically recommended moving forward with prosecution... Now 6 months later, the decision is changed to NOT prosecute.... So who could have made this decision????? Barr !!!!!
What the heck is Trump afraid of? He needs to fire AG Bill Barr...
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How can one not presume, and be extremely concerned about, that Trump knew exactly what he was getting in Barr?
Can’t help to think that voting apathy will result from this and similar future decisions. And if and when Democrats regain power, they will be more emboldened than ever and we will be in real, real trouble. Not good President Trump.
Sadly in many ways he has been his own worst enemy when it comes to picking his team.
I wonder how much of it is due to the fact that in his former life he could hire and fire people at will, so a personell mistake could be easily fixed. Such is not the case in government.
Jim,
It’s now time to shut the Qball silliness down.
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Meanwhile, the Virginia Governor and Legislature thinks who their Citizens who own Semi Automatic Rifles and Magazines that hold more than ten rounds should be subject to Arrest and Conviction of Felonies.
The Law is certainly an Ass.
If you lie, suborn justice and commit treason, you skate.
Not surprised Andrew McCabe is a free man. The Deep State looks after its own.
Is it possible McCabe flipped and they are letting him off for his fibs?
Is it possible McCabe will be charged with a bigger crime like conspiracy to commit treason?
Who will make that call, I wonder...
Also Christie was the prosecutor who put Jared Kushner's father in jail. - Tom
Plus they share the same personality in a way
Both are no nonsense
Both say what they mean
Both were friends, which sessions or barr were never friends of President Trump, sure Sessions was a supporter.
Mueller would have NEVER been appointed by Christie, there would not have been a Mueller investigation, there would have never been a Dem take over in 2018 and there would have never been an impeachment
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Huma Abedin
Strzok
Lisa Page
Sally Yates
Loretta Lynch
Nellie Ohr
Donna Brazile
Stephan Halper
Cheryl Millls
Susan Rice
Tony Podesta / John Podesta
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Thanks for the link, worth reading!
Kabuki theater. All of it. Too many Republicans would fall if the swamp were actually to be drained. The traitors are firmly in control, regardless of what anyone says. AND WE FALL FOR IT, EVERY TIME!!!
The selection bias of the DC jury pool is a problem in need of a solution, if we are using them to indict and try corruption by top Federal officials and their associates. The left will get off automatically, like this, and the right will get crucified automatically regardless of the evidence, cf. the perjurious Roger Stone jury forewoman.
Yup kind of like heads I win tails Flynn stone et al lose. Beria would have been proud.
I like your idea. Full pardons for all three.
Not yet, they're riding that smoking mess over the cliff.
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