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Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/polit...ral/index.html
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Like both of the other DJT pardons, Scooter Libby is a white, male supporter who has been charged with obstruction of justice or defying court orders.
Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/polit...ral/index.html
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Animal style please
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.fb7d071050f8
The disclosure of which McCabe was accused of authorizing came in October 2016, around the time Comey would announce the FBI was resuming its probe of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. At the time, Devlin Barrett — then a reporter at the Wall Street Journal — was preparing a story on the bureau’s handling of that case and another investigation into the Clinton family foundation. McCabe felt the story would portray him and the FBI unfairly, so he authorized two other FBI officials to give Barrett his account. Barrett now works for The Washington Post.
Background conversations with reporters in Washington are commonplace, and McCabe had the authority, as the FBI’s deputy director, to authorize them. But the inspector general came to conclude he was acting out of self interest, and that violated FBI policy.
Of particular concern was that McCabe effectively authorized the FBI to confirm an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation, by revealing a phone call in which he pushed back against a Justice Department official who warned that the bureau should not be taking overt steps in the case close to an election. McCabe asked the official: “Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?”
The inspector general wrote Comey inquired with his deputy about the disclosure, and McCabe led him to believe he did not know who was responsible. McCabe’s team, though, disputes that, and says emails between the two “clearly show that Mr. McCabe specifically advised Director Comey that he was working with colleagues at the FBI to correct inaccuracies in the story before it was published, and that they remained in contact through the weekend while the work was taking place.”
Inspector general investigators came to believe Comey, and they alleged McCabe lied on three other occasions to them and the FBI’s inspection division. Comey said in an appearance on “The View” this week: “I still believe Andrew McCabe is a good person, but the inspector general found that he lied, and there’s severe consequences in the Justice Department for lying — as there should be throughout the government.”
So...this has produced even less backlash than the Mueller investigation, why is no one surprised?
To be fair, there are more reports coming in the next month or so -- but if you go by the last OIG report about a right wing pet conspiracy theory, it's not going to shatter any worlds.
Federal prosecutors bad now
because i'm not sure that mccabe's leaking has any major ramifications... he's in trouble for leaking to the WSJ that the FBI has an ongoing investigation into the clinton foundation. i dont see how that in and of itself proves any pro-clinton government conspiracy or anything like that.
if the future IG reports show that the FBI mishandled the clinton email investigation due to some political bias aimed at protecting her, that will be a big shoe to drop... or if they find some serious fisa abuse relating to the carter page warrants. those will be bigger stories
I'm hoping for something juicy form either/both reports. These threads are running on fumes.
if they find out cohen was actually in prague that would be a significant development in the direction you probably dont like
Wont bother me in the least. I'm ready for him to be thrown out. Would love for both sides to take major, brutal hits, it'd be best for the country in cracking the partisanship stupidity and American politics as a whole.
thats the spirit!!!!
Hey, thanks man. I appreciate that.
No need to hope, this thread delivered and will keep delivering.
No need to hope, this thread delivered and will keep delivering.
I'm definitely missing something because all it's delivered is one referral. One referral. That's like djohn getting orgasmic about the nothings of the Mueller report happenings that aren't really doing what he said they were gonna do.
Horowitz is an Obama guy.
Yep, OIG reports historically aren't the bombs s people want them to be.
The conspiracy theories aren't Horowitz's, genius.
i just find it weird that the OIG report said it is being issued to the FBI "for such action that it deems appropriate" but now we're hearing they specifically referred it for prosecution
not that i doubt the veracity of today's reports, i just find it odd
Agreed. I guess since it's an FBI report the DOJ referral is considered a wholly separate thing?
This criminal referral didn't even originate from the OIG election related investigation and was referred to the OIG by the FBI.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo...with%20ROI.pdf
There is a lot more to come from the OIG.
On top of all that Sessions also instructed Horowitz to investigate FISA abuse. Horowitz and Huber are just getting warmed up.
Regardless, I think successfully prosecuting McCabe would be a uphill battle. Trump's tweets alone could totally screw any shot at a jury trial.
"When exactly the referral was made to the US attorney's office was not immediately clear, and prosecutors there may decline to prosecute."Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/polit...ral/index.html
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This criminal referral didn't even originate from the OIG election related investigation and was referred to the OIG by the FBI.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo...with%20ROI.pdf
There is a lot more to come from the OIG.
On top of all that Sessions also instructed Horowitz to investigate FISA abuse. Horowitz and Huber are just getting warmed up.
Honestly, this sounds like a djohn post and is much ado about nothing really major. Again, I'm hoping for something juicy and, at this point, expect a whole bunch of the nothingness we're receiving from both sides.
I'm sure even spurraider21 would be successful with lying under oath recorded on tape.
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