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US closes case against ex-FBI boss McCabe with no charges
AP News ^ | 14 Feb 20 | ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: SkyPilot

So what, they impeach him again, nobody cares.

McConnell will have to give him a replacement, or Trump can appoint someone Temporarily, maybe that Rob O’Brien guy at the NSC who is cleaning that dump up.


301 posted on 02/14/2020 12:58:00 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: SkyPilot

The Swamp critters win again.


302 posted on 02/14/2020 1:00:44 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: DoughtyOne
The problem is, if the populace were to rise up and say enough of the criminality, they would be the ones facing the law immediately.

I watched a video today of some Canadian citizens who were fed up that the police were allowing a bunch of wackos to set up dangerous blockades on a highway, so they removed the barriers themselves. The cops were standing right there.

This was supposedly about a pipeline on Native-American land, but the companies had already paid them off and had legal rights for the pipeline, but the groups were shaking them down even further.

So they put the public in danger with these make-shift barriers that could have caused accidents and loss of life.

And what did the cop do?

He arrested the citizens who were taking down the illegal barriers on the highway.

See the video here, the one halfway down the page:

https://globalnews.ca/news/6539253/video-plywood-truck-bc-highway-blockade/

Same rationale in D.C. The criminals go free, the innocent are persecuted.

303 posted on 02/14/2020 1:02:45 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Glad2bnuts
The Government does not silently turn someone. They do it publicly after a perp walk, and a few days of bank draining costs.

Correct.

There is no "secret deal" with McCabe.

304 posted on 02/14/2020 1:05:23 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

I think he should fire Barr.

Tonight.

Yeah, yeah - I know. The Senate won’t replace him, the Democrats will Impeach him all over again if does, blah, blah, blah.

But this B.S. has stop.


The Deep State coupists and their GOP enablers in the Senate have run the big coup issues up so close to the election so that POTUS is hamstrung. He can’t afford an intra GOP food fight in campaign season. Firing Barr right now would be a nuclear bomb on the beltway. So POTUS is stuck trying to defend his outflanked position beyond enemy lines until the election.


305 posted on 02/14/2020 1:05:50 PM PST by lodi90
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To: JoSixChip
mcconnel is doing to Trump and his supporters exactly what he did to the Tea Party.

No one here seems to remember Mitch declaring they must marginalize those TeaParty guys before they get here. Hope springs eternal in the Lucy Crowd.

306 posted on 02/14/2020 1:06:24 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: SkyPilot

He’s probably going to testify in something bigger coming down the pike....let it ride, let it ride!


307 posted on 02/14/2020 1:23:36 PM PST by caww
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To: caww
He’s probably going to testify in something bigger coming down the pike

Yeah that’s it, he will get them later for sure, no really, he will.

308 posted on 02/14/2020 1:29:24 PM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: SkyPilot

The old ‘No Reasonable Prosecutor Would Bring Such a Case’ standard.......


309 posted on 02/14/2020 1:37:48 PM PST by Lockbox
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To: itsahoot

No one here seems to remember Mitch declaring they must marginalize those TeaParty guys before they get here. Hope springs eternal in the Lucy Crowd.


Yep. And those sunshine pumpers won’t remember the Deep State crimes once Trump is gone. They’ll go right back to voting for those GOPers that enabled the coup from the start.


310 posted on 02/14/2020 1:44:43 PM PST by lodi90
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To: a little elbow grease

Thanks. We’ll see now it goes...


311 posted on 02/14/2020 1:50:08 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: SkyPilot

Yes, if you don’t control crime, then you will control those who refuse to accept crime.

Someone should file a massive law suite against those officers and their department.


312 posted on 02/14/2020 1:51:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: bagster

This is what’s known as “grasping desperately at straws”.

Face it. You’ve been conned.

That or you’re one of the cons.

But you’re not nearly smart enough for that, so.....

L


313 posted on 02/14/2020 1:52:44 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: a little elbow grease
This McCabe crap/news SUCKS!

America has become a Potemkin village; all the trappings of a functioning government are in place, but they are hopelessly corrupt and rotten to the core. Maybe Durham is the last honest man but even Vegas wouldn't set odds :)

314 posted on 02/14/2020 2:02:58 PM PST by JonPreston
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To: SkyPilot

Impeach them.


315 posted on 02/14/2020 2:15:27 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Lurker
But you’re not nearly smart enough for that, so.....

But I'm smarter than you so that must put you at retard level.


316 posted on 02/14/2020 2:22:37 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: JoSixChip
mcconnell is never going to confirm someone who will get the job done. mcconnel is doing to Trump and his supporters exactly what he did to the Tea Party.

He can make a temporary appointment...

317 posted on 02/14/2020 2:23:25 PM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
He can make a temporary appointment...

It would have to be someone who is part of the doj or Trump's cabinet and has already been through the confirmation process, who would that be?
318 posted on 02/14/2020 2:28:14 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: bagster

“But I’m smarter than you...”

You’re a shining example of the Dunning Kruger Effect.

L


319 posted on 02/14/2020 2:29:41 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SkyPilot

Holy crap I have had it! These bastards get off one by one! Nothing is going to change in this damned country until people are scared of their life to undermine our president.


320 posted on 02/14/2020 2:30:17 PM PST by Phillyred
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