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Andrew McCarthy: Why wasn't Andrew McCabe charged?
Fox News ^ | 16 Feb 2020 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 02/16/2020 10:44:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated. McCabe was fired in March 2018, shortly after a blistering Justice Department inspector general (IG) report concluded that he repeatedly and blatantly lied — or, as the Bureau lexicon puts it, “lacked candor” — when questioned, including under oath.

Why not indict McCabe on felony false-statements charges? That is the question being pressed by incensed Trump supporters. After all, the constitutional guarantee of equal justice under the law is supposed to mean that McCabe gets the same quality of justice afforded to the sad sacks pursued with unseemly zeal by McCabe’s FBI and Robert Mueller’s prosecutors.

George Papadopoulos was convicted of making a trivial false statement about the date of a meeting. Roger Stone was convicted of obstruction long after the special counsel knew there was no Trump–Russia conspiracy, even though his meanderings did not impede the investigation in any meaningful way. And in the case of Michael Flynn’s false-statements conviction, as McCabe himself acknowledged to the House Intelligence Committee, even the agents who interviewed him did not believe he intentionally misled them.

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KEYWORDS: andymccarthy; doj; mccabe
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1 posted on 02/16/2020 10:44:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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Gee, anyone detect a pattern?

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2 posted on 02/16/2020 10:47:02 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because we are using somewhat benign. deep state apparatchiks to clean the deep state

Still ineffective

Trump should have pulled someone from outside DC and DOJ

Sidney Powell

Some conservative State AG

anyone but more swamp...


3 posted on 02/16/2020 10:47:15 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These things happen in Banana Republics.


4 posted on 02/16/2020 10:49:28 AM PST by McGruff
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

McCabe made a deal. It looks like the DOJ wants Brennan, Clapper and Comey. Strozk and Page will also see indictments and the star witnesses will be the Ohr’s.


5 posted on 02/16/2020 10:50:16 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: AnthonySoprano
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6 posted on 02/16/2020 10:50:43 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No intent?
No controlling legal authority?

There are so many to chose from!


7 posted on 02/16/2020 10:51:09 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Enjoy the show. Logical thinking and all that.


8 posted on 02/16/2020 10:52:02 AM PST by deadrock
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To: AnthonySoprano
Gee, anyone detect a pattern?

Yeah. The concept of equal justice under the law is a ruse for the rubes to keep them voting for the foxes overseeing the hen house.

9 posted on 02/16/2020 10:52:12 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

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Not true.

Plea deals don’t allow one to attack the Prosecution and Prosecutors.

And he’s publicly denied it, which would ruin his credibility.

This is nothing more than wishful thinking.

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10 posted on 02/16/2020 10:53:22 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can someone post the PDJT quote where he said, “we caught them, we have them all”? Or something like that...I believe him...it may happen not like we think, though...and when did he say this?


11 posted on 02/16/2020 10:53:28 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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In addition to this story by McCarthy, be sure to read the EXCELLENT story on the two-tier justice system by J. Christian Adams today on PJ Media:

President Trump Starts to Drain the Swamp, Yanks Jessie Liu Treasury Dept. Nomination (PJ Media article)

President Trump Starts to Drain the Swamp, Yanks Jessie Liu Treasury Dept. Nomination (FR Post)

Many here on FR will remember that Adams wrote many fine articles about the horrendous abuses in the Obama Voting Rights Section at DOJ during his tenure there. He is now an election lawyer. His New York Times bestselling book is Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department (Regnery). His website is www.electionlawcenter.com.

12 posted on 02/16/2020 10:53:34 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: wardaddy

He needs to get a private citizen who does not care how many careers he/she destroys nor the amount of carnage caused in the private lives of these leaches to clean house, and to do it with absolute ruthlessness.


13 posted on 02/16/2020 10:54:10 AM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual and political hemlock)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

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Damn, you’re good.

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14 posted on 02/16/2020 10:54:25 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: CincyRichieRich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEklMr8qhhg


15 posted on 02/16/2020 10:55:58 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Trust Sessions


16 posted on 02/16/2020 10:56:38 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Mueller’s Maulers” ... apt description.

Here’s an interesting take on things:

The Sentencing of Michael Flynn Represents a Very Big Problem for AG Bill Barr…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/15/the-sentencing-of-michael-flynn-represents-a-very-big-problem-for-ag-bill-barr/

For the past week CTH has been outlining some lengthy research, highlighting key issues to help understand the background of what is evident. If you’ve followed along, in this outline the individual pieces will all come together. Bill Barr has a very big problem…

Andrew McCabe cannot be prosecuted in 2020 for the same reason James Wolfe could not be prosecuted in 2018. When we understand why we realize the problem that Michael Flynn now represents to U.S. Attorney Bill Barr.

Continued at link.


17 posted on 02/16/2020 10:57:10 AM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
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Trust Sessions

Oh, I do! With all my heart!

18 posted on 02/16/2020 10:57:25 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you! PDJT has not failed to do what he said he would do.


19 posted on 02/16/2020 11:01:34 AM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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That’s an interesting piece at CTH but I disagree with its basic premise.

From AG Barr’s perspective, there’s no way the institutions of government could survive the potential evidence at a McCabe trial.

AG Barr can’t possibly be this delusional. NAMBLA and ISIS deserve more public respect than the DOJ right now. Barr has to know this better than anyone.

I’m at the point where I wouldn’t even vote to convict a defendant in a case where the evidence against him was 100% certain. I’m sure I’m far from the only one who operates this way. How do the “institutions of government” hold up under that kind of scenario?

20 posted on 02/16/2020 11:07:13 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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