Posted on 02/14/2020 9:34:15 AM PST by Theoria
The decision to decline charges appears to be a move to distance the Justice Department from President Trump, who has long attacked Mr. McCabe.
Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director and a frequent target of President Trump, will not face charges in an investigation into whether he lied to investigators about a media leak, his defense team said on Friday.
The decision by prosecutors in Washington ends a case that had left Mr. McCabe in legal limbo for nearly two years. It also appears to be a sign that Attorney General William P. Barr wants to show that the Justice Department is independent from Mr. Trump: The notification came a day after Mr. Barr publicly challenged the president to stop attacking law enforcement officials on Twitter and said the criticisms were making his job more difficult.
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html
Barr, Donald: The headmaster who offered entrée.
In the 1975 Dalton School yearbook. Photo: The Dalton School
Barr was ousted shortly before Epstein, 21 and without a college degree, showed up for his first day of work teaching math and physics at the Manhattans elite Dalton School in the early 1970s. Barr announced his resignation soon after, in February 1974: He was disliked by the faculty, he was highly controversial, he hadnt raised much money, he was very conservative, said the boards chairman. Barrs leadership style was described as authoritarian and undemocratic at the time. Memorably, several former students told the New York Times that Epstein was overly familiar with teenage girls at the school. Donalds son William would intersect with Epsteins orbit while serving as a counsel at Kirkland and Ellis in 2009. The law firm secured Epstein his obscenely lenient 2007 non-prosecution deal, which the Justice Department is now reviewing. In July, Barr the son refused to recuse himself from the ongoing Epstein investigation.
Barr may actually have helped arrange for Epstein’s oopsey murder.
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