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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Copy of the letter from DOJ to McCabe is online confirming this report.
Barr doin’ work, sans Tweets.
How dare the president and everybody else criticize Barr.
Not charging for this one offense.
This one offense
Disgusting...
So true and not enough people seem to realize this.
Is it at all conceivable that they flipped McCabe? It’s still possible Barr sees him as a smaller fish and we’ve not been betrayed.
Barr cried to ABC News yesterday, and "bravely" stated that no one would "intimidate" him from "doing my job."
Barr, of course, had already made the decision to allow the coup traitor McCabe off the hook.
#46 = LOLOLOL
The President will not be pleased. I hope Barr had given thought as to what he will be doing after government service.
Notice how swift “justice” is for swamp creatures?
Fire Barr today!
It sets up a pardon or low sentence for Stone and others.
FU BB!!!!!
FU BB!!!!!
Guess it’s possible given that we heard there would be indictments this week. Maybe he did cut a deal but I won’t hold my breath.
Not a chance.
I still say Chris Christie would have been the best AG from the start. Trump needed a pal in that spot, everyone else has been a snake so far
I was defending Barr on here because I thought he was a professional and I could understand that Trump’s tweets can make it difficult for him to do his job because it could give the appearance that the DOJ is taking orders from the president (through twitter no less). I can understand where he was coming from on that.
BUT McCabe is a dirty sleazeball show should be in prison right now, but won’t because Barr doesn’t have the balls to go after him.
And why wasn’t McCabe and Comey replaced on day one? Who in the administration gave Trump advice to leave them in place? We need to figure out the root of this, and that is the problem that is still in the White House.
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