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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They only need you to believe it’s going to happen next year.
Hint: there’s no next year.
They ran from Guiliani because he has info on the Prince. Now, a branch of the DoJ where Comey’s daughter works is trying to take out Guiliani.
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More made up stuff.
I trust he will keep making cookies in the tree.
Here is the real stuff from McCarthy’s article which acknowledges my point of McCabe revealing too much if charged:
“No matter the outcome, the Justice Department stood to take some hits if McCabe had been charged. Focus on McCabe’s leak would have drawn attention to pressure DOJ officials had put on the Bureau over the Clinton Foundation investigation (which, reportedly, is likely to be closed without charges). It would also renew interest in the question of whether the FBI improperly allowed McCabe to play a role in Clinton-related investigations when his wife, as a political candidate, got major funding from Clinton-tied sources.”
“..... that the Justice Department and FBI did not comply with regulations in what appears to be the rushed termination of McCabe, adding heft to the former deputy director’s claim that he was being singled out for abusive treatment, potentially including prosecution, because of vengeful politics.”
Two-Tiered Justice System - bump for later...…….
The "politics", vengeful or not, are irrelevant when there are real reasons to prosecute.
Another point made by me and others here and reverberated in the McCarthy article:
“Finally, we must note that when the District of Columbia is the venue for any prosecution with political overtones, Justice Department charging decisions must factor in the jury pool, which is solidly anti-Trump.”
“And the jury would be weighing against that evidence (a) whatever problems caused prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office to beg off, and more significantly, (b) defense arguments that McCabe would not have been fired or prosecuted if not for the fact that he had gotten crosswise with a president of the United States whom at least some of the jurors are apt to dislike.”
My solution is that Washington DC should be a safe zone from any federal jury trial. Abolish the DC district court.
There are 93 other district courts to choose from and 13 circuit courts in this country. Washington DC has 120 judges in their two courts. Good riddance.
Exactly.
If the government is headed in the direction of becoming a banana republic if we do nothing, there is zero excuse for doing nothing. It is the very time to act.
As for the DC court system being rotten, it seems that the chief justice could rule that a federal case may be tried in any federal court in the US.
Regardless, present rules and laws allow appeal eventually to the Supreme Court.
Because they didn’t think they could get a non-biased (meaning not anti-Trump!) DC jury!
It amazes me how many gullible Freepers think President Trump is stupid.
Like good progressives they swallow the media line and recreate lore to justify their perversion
"Mueller's Maulers" -- indeed!
Thanks for the CTH link. I'll read that. The McCarthy and J. Christian Adams articles and the abuses they chronicle at the DOJ have me so incensed this morning!
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Then they should close up shop and admit they only Prosecute Republicans.
A DoJ that doesn’t follow the Law?’
Maybe, the Dept of Politics is more appropriate.
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You and your family are faced with financial ruin for all eternity. You are up against the infinitely deep pockets of the prosecutors. How many people have the fortitude and the deep resources to stand up against that onslaught?
Exactly. Maybe they weren’t even able to get a grand jury to indict.
“Abolish the DC district court.” — that is an excellent recommendation. The DC District Court is nothing but a tool of the deep state and does their bidding. The inherent conflict is so obvious on its face — everybody in the greater metropolitan DC area extending far into Virginia and Maryland makes their living off FedZilla. That conflict should disqualify every one of the 6.1 million people in the greater Washington DC metro area from serving on a federal jury.
The people in DC aren’t subject to the same laws the rest of us our bound to for some reason.
I think I see a big problem on the horizon for the DC fat-cats. Americans have had about enough of this.
Not saying this is an honest DOJ. Even if the DOJ was screamingly proGOP if they know there is no possibility of a guilty verdict or even an indictment from a grand jury they’re not going to pursue the case.
“...the DOJ wants Brennan, Clapper and Comey. Strozk and Page will also see indictments...”
May you be a prophet among us!
When there is no justice, there’s just us.
Good points, but wrong solution. Forget about the DC District Court. My recommendation would be to eliminate the U.S. Department of Justice in its entirety. It didn’t even exist until 1870, and at least 95% of the criminal cases in these courts involve matters that shouldn’t even be Federal crimes.
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