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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What next? An asteroid? Oh, wait...
It’s who you know.....
The law has been so corrupted by the Swamp, it’s sickening.
No kidding! Especially with technology they have now.
The title should read: “Ex-FBI Mob Boss Andrew McCabe.”
If charges are brought against, let’s say like Comey, McCabe would be called as a witness beyond a shadow of a doubt........deals are made don’t you know?
“No kidding! Especially with technology they have now.”
Yup. Makes it much more easy to identify all the Trumpers, for re-education/punishment.
I think you are dreaming. If what you say has any fact then things will come out by autumn of this year.
But I am not hoping that will happen.
McCabe is singing
Yup yup.. Plus, they’ll have viruses created to attack only us. Half kidding.
I say no on McCabe flipped, but yes on there are bigger fish to fry.
This looks like a move to check the emerging Dem narrative that Barr is Trump’s toady. I tentatively file this under prepping the battlefield for bigger stuff to come.
It reminds me of when the DOJ declined to go after Comey for his leaks. The reason given was pretty explicit: we don’t want to look petty or vindictive.
Remember, you only have ONE opening salvo. Do you use it on McCabe? Or do you save it up for better effect later.
Also this does not mean McCabe is out of legal jeopardy, new evidence..so watch Durham over the weeks ahead.
Further as you know there are ‘two Justice systems” working in DC....our guys get nailed, and theirs walk..Trump does what he has authority to do, Macabe got fired lost his pension, Stroke got fired,Comey etc....
if we keep the Senate and retake the House, we can do it ourselves
“McCabe will face justice like all the others... it’s Durham’s case!”
You forgot the /s/. I don’t believe for one minute that Durham will do anything.
A cat plays with the mouse! lets it go and then traps it again! ..... same with McCabe!
The D’s rhetoric is getting more absurd by the day! That is an indicator of desperation! Panic in DC!.....
Indeed keep the Senate and retake the House...absolutely needed then Trump can role it all out!
Meow.
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