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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
KEYWORDS: adealwasmade; barr; deepstate; durham; fixisin; gitmo; mccabe; q; qanon; qisnonsense; spygate; trump; trustbarr; trustdurham; trustsessions; trusttheplan; unsealed; why
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To: central_va
How are they going to find the vigilantes?

You think they care? They'll shoot anyone they want to.

261 posted on 02/14/2020 11:42:32 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
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To: JerseyDvl
Trump better take a deep breath before tweeting about this development. This whole week has been defined by self inflicted wounds that easily could have been avoided with a little restraint. It’s time to start a new winning streak because fighting with the DOJ in the media is a losing proposition

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?

262 posted on 02/14/2020 11:44:09 AM PST by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

Same here....I had to hit my weight room to blow off steam.


263 posted on 02/14/2020 11:45:05 AM PST by EODGUY (God's Will...nothing more....nothing less.....nothing else!)
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To: JerseyDvl

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.


264 posted on 02/14/2020 11:50:14 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JoSixChip

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.


265 posted on 02/14/2020 11:50:17 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: JerseyDvl

“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.


266 posted on 02/14/2020 11:50:49 AM PST by plain talk
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To: MayflowerMadam

Seems like Barr wants to go


267 posted on 02/14/2020 11:51:26 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: kempster

“So this means the special investigator Durham has no meaning whatsoever?”

Yes.


268 posted on 02/14/2020 11:51:48 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Get a new guy in there ASAP in case we lose the Senate in November so Trump can get confirmation.

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.
269 posted on 02/14/2020 11:53:16 AM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: cp124; Lurker; LS
From the Washington Post a few minutes ago:

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.”

270 posted on 02/14/2020 11:53:26 AM 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: central_va

They don’t have to find you.

They just start using the same tactics against your politicians.


271 posted on 02/14/2020 11:53:34 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: MayflowerMadam

Durham is a “special” investigator, short bus kind of “special”.


272 posted on 02/14/2020 11:54:14 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: kabar

Exactly.


273 posted on 02/14/2020 11:58:07 AM PST by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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To: SkyPilot

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


274 posted on 02/14/2020 11:59:56 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: SkyPilot

No justice.


275 posted on 02/14/2020 12:00:49 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SkyPilot

disappointment runs deep


276 posted on 02/14/2020 12:05:58 PM PST by EBH (DNC=Party NON GRATA)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“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.


277 posted on 02/14/2020 12:06:12 PM PST by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
It lasts until the next significant economic crisis.

Cronovirus may hasten our demise.

278 posted on 02/14/2020 12:07:41 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

PDJT has full right to Tweet about FBI/DOJ/CIA corruption now...phasers on full power now.


279 posted on 02/14/2020 12:11:27 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

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.


280 posted on 02/14/2020 12:12:16 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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