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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You think they care? They'll shoot anyone they want to.
What does Prez Trump’s tweeting have to do with this? Are you suggesting that if he hadn’t tweeted McCabe would have been indicted?
Same here....I had to hit my weight room to blow off steam.
If Barr is playing games because of Trump’s Tweets, then he should be fired. And if responsibility is a concern, Barr shouldn’t be bitching to the World about his petty, irrelevant annoyances.
Many share your concerns, but I see things differently.
Barr needs to go and be replaced with Sekulow or diGenova. DiGenova is a blowhard, but I think he’d do the job. Get a new guy in there ASAP in case we lose the Senate in November so Trump can get confirmation.
“Trump better take a deep breath before tweeting about this development. “
Why? Trump is just a private citizen expressing his views. It’s not like he is the President of the United States or something.
Seems like Barr wants to go
“So this means the special investigator Durham has no meaning whatsoever?”
Yes.
A White House official said Trump was not given a head’s up and was upset, and that White House lawyers moved to calm the president. The official said Trump “believes very strongly that action should be taken.”
They don’t have to find you.
They just start using the same tactics against your politicians.
Durham is a “special” investigator, short bus kind of “special”.
Exactly.
No plea deal? No admission of guilt? No naming of names, providing documents, nothing?
No matter, I and others haven’t trusted the DOJ or FBI for over 30 years.
5.56mm
No justice.
disappointment runs deep
“Why should The People assume any part of the Department Of Justice is legitimate? Oughtn’t there be an uprising?”
Oh, the power structure is quite willing to incarcerate commoners. The elites are a different story.
Cronovirus may hasten our demise.
PDJT has full right to Tweet about FBI/DOJ/CIA corruption now...phasers on full power now.
So this means the special investigator Durham has no meaning whatsoever?
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Another shiny object like Huber.
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Likely so, just one more of Lucy’s footballs.
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