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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adealwasmade; barr; deepstate; durham; fixisin; gitmo; mccabe; q; qanon; qisnonsense; spygate; trump; trustbarr; trustdurham; trustsessions; trusttheplan; unsealed; why
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To: SkyPilot

One wonders how long this nation lasts now that it’s clear the Left and the ruling class agree that there should be no law and order.

When the criminals are beyond the law, those who support the law will be the only ones left to address.


121 posted on 02/14/2020 10:19:30 AM 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: jhastey
Trump is even smart enough to realize how he’s yet again been double-crossed by someone HE HIMSELF picked

Trump didn't pick him, mcconnell did.
122 posted on 02/14/2020 10:19:31 AM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: SkyPilot

Well, if they can’t get McCabe, then they can’t get anybody. I thought it was McCabe that was the lowest hanging fruit of all the conspirators.

Comey was already let off the hook months ago, and now McCabe. So, there you go. The other players will never face justice.


123 posted on 02/14/2020 10:19:33 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: SkyPilot

Thank you.


124 posted on 02/14/2020 10:19:44 AM 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

TRUMP'S FAULT!!

This entire week has been a setup to let McCabe off and blame it on tweets by the POTUS.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

125 posted on 02/14/2020 10:20:16 AM PST by SanchoP (Yippy,the next generation search engine.)
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To: SkyPilot

AG William Barr, CIA Asset and Deep State Impresario
September 10, 2019/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse /by Kelleigh Nelson

“While the many patriots who supported the election of Donald Trump have suffered immeasurably, those who colluded to destroy Trump’s chances of winning and then to frame him with the false Russia narrative, are still running free, writing books and being promoted on mainstream media. And many of them are still in the AG’s office influencing his actions.”

Diana West, author of American Betrayal and The Red Thread stated that when President Trump chose William Barr for his AG, her heart sank, and for good reason.

Conclusion

In a previous article I asked who vets the nominees for President Trump’s administration? Apparently, no one vets the administration candidates thoroughly. They use social media to see what the candidate has said about Trump. Of course, the FBI should investigate every candidate, but the FBI is not trustworthy.

Stay tuned, there’s much more to come on AG Barr.

Read at: https://drrichswier.com/2019/09/10/ag-william-barr-cia-asset-and-deep-state-impresario/


126 posted on 02/14/2020 10:20:24 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: DoughtyOne

No crying in politics. GET UP EVERY MORNING AND FIGHT. Instead of paying a car loan, stay home from work for 2 extra days of militia training, volunteer to go door to door for a candidate or 10. Liberty is not a gift, it is a legacy. It is a classic beauty of a car that needs an oil change and daily polish. You cannot pay anyone to detail it, the work must be accomplished by YOU....and ME.


127 posted on 02/14/2020 10:20:58 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: SanchoP

Yep. Deepfat Barr needed cover to do his dirty deeds.


128 posted on 02/14/2020 10:21:04 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: SkyPilot

Conclusion: There are other fish easier to fry


129 posted on 02/14/2020 10:21:26 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: rockinqsranch

The letter states specifically that McCabe will not be prosecuted for the items referred by the IG, i.e., the lack of candor on leaking. This does not mean that McCabe can’t be charged with other crimes. Maybe McCabe is singing.


130 posted on 02/14/2020 10:21:30 AM PST by kabar
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To: KittyKares

I just have no more faith in me.

Over the last 25 years they have crushed every hope I’ve had for turning this nation around.

Trump can’t do it alone, and he is the only one on our side it appears.


131 posted on 02/14/2020 10:21:32 AM 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: a fool in paradise

He did both. Oh and he apologized. However McCabe’s lawyers said this as his defense:

McCabe’s lawyer has said his story changed because in the first interview he wasn’t prepared for the question, and that he was soon distracted by President Trump’s firing of FBI chief James Comey, whom McCabe replaced as acting director.


132 posted on 02/14/2020 10:22:21 AM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: All

And the Southern District of NY will indict Guiliani, you watch.


133 posted on 02/14/2020 10:22:32 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: aynrandfreak

The Government does not silently turn someone. They do it publicly after a perp walk, and a few days of bank draining costs.


134 posted on 02/14/2020 10:23:01 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: hattend

You are kidding yourself if you THINK this will ever be drained this government has become a BEAST that will NEVER be corrected NEVER!! We will very soon be Venezuela I am very happy that I don’t have children and won’t be around to see this happen HOWEVER we are just a generation away and this republic will no longer exist the way we know it!!! HELL it doesn’t exist NOW the way we once knew it!!!


135 posted on 02/14/2020 10:23:37 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: hattend

The only way for trump to drain the swamp would be to go to kings bay. Take personal command of a boomer and launch on DC every D5 it has. Seriously that place is a fetid cesspool of back slapping bums taking a good deal of the country for a ride. Crooks skeemers psychopaths and just plain loathsome creatures. It was not designed to be this way but someone surely lost the design specs.


136 posted on 02/14/2020 10:24:19 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: SkyPilot
USA 2nd World Banana Republic

(working towards 3rd world status at lightning speed)
137 posted on 02/14/2020 10:24:19 AM PST by indthkr
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To: Engedi

Hillary lied too because she unwilling er unprepared to answer certain questions and was more forthright when Gowdy named the names she claims to have forgotten


138 posted on 02/14/2020 10:24:32 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: SkyPilot

Stone - Charged

Flynn - Charged

Papadopoulos - Charged

Gates - Charged

Cohen - Charged

McCabe - Pass

Comey - Pass

Brennan - Pass

Clapper - Pass

Podesta - Pass

(Jack Posobiec)


139 posted on 02/14/2020 10:24:35 AM PST by roses of sharon ("Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." Luke 23:43)
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To: drypowder
What the heck is Trump afraid of? He needs to fire AG Bill Barr as well as FBI Director Chris Wray. It will be his own undoing if he doesn’t. Unequal and selective justice will lead to the absolute collapse of this country.

I agree, and while he's at it how about a full pardon - TODAY - of Stone, Flynn, Manafort, and anyone else who was sucked into this little drama.

Screw Barr. He can quit if he doesn't like it.

140 posted on 02/14/2020 10:25:05 AM PST by truthkeeper (All Trump Has Going for Him is the Votes)
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