Good day all. This story came out last week, but I was busy. The inspector General for the Department of Justice has recommended that former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation be criminally charged.
The findings from the IG’s report indicate that McCabe lied under oath. Normally, this wouldn’t have mattered since it was fully expected that Felonia von Pantsuit would be president. As we saw, things didn’t go as planned for the Beltway Uniparty and now, the chickens are coming home to crap all over everything. Here are some of the details from the Washington Times:
The Justice Department inspector general has referred former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s case to federal prosecutors to decide whether to bring a criminal case against him, his attorney said Thursday.
The decision represents serious legal trouble for Mr. McCabe and could pit him directly against his former boss, then-FBI Director James B. Comey, who says he is the man who initiated the inspector general’s investigation that has landed Mr. McCabe in hot water.
Comey is in legal hot water as well, and, with a little bit of luck, end up sharing a cell with McCabe. As to being the one to initiate the investigation? Yeah, I don’t think so Tim.
The referral was revealed less than a week after the release of an inspector general’s report finding Mr. McCabe lied repeatedly about a leak he made to The Wall Street Journal in August 2016. The leak confirmed that the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation.
It might take a few more years and a second Trump term, but I think we might be seeing the very beginnings of the swamp draining we so desperately need. McCabe and his lawyer are trying to bury this of course.
Mr. McCabe’s attorney, Michael R. Bromwich, downplayed any legal danger.
“We were advised of the referral within the past few weeks. Although we believe the referral is unjustified, the standard for an IG referral is very low,” said Mr. Bromwich, who was a Justice Department inspector general in the 1990s.
And this is why the referral was made to a prosecutor for his or her decision. Of course, there is also the matter of a near identical referral coming out of Congress.
“We have already met with staff members from the U.S. attorney’s office. We are confident that, unless there is inappropriate pressure from high levels of the administration, the U.S. attorney’s office will conclude that it should decline to prosecute,” Mr. Bromwich said.
Inappropriate pressure? I suspect he means President Trump, but that isn’t where the pressure is coming from.
Republicans on Capitol Hill cheered the news.
“Andrew McCabe lied to his FBI superiors not once. Not twice. Not three times. He lied four times — multiple times under oath,” said Rep. Mark Meadows, North Carolina Republican. “It’s about time we have some accountability for this type of conduct at the Justice Department.”
A day before the news of the referral, a group of conservative Republicans in Congress sent a letter asking Mr. Sessions to initiate a criminal case against Mr. McCabe, Mr. Comey and a number of other Justice Department and FBI officials for behavior surrounding the 2016 presidential campaign.
And Sessions took one look at it and promptly went back to sleep. Now, with the report from the IG’s office, Sessions is actually going to have to do something. Hopefully, President Trump will be able to correct the mistake he made when he appointed Sessions to clean out the Department of Justice after the mid-term elections.
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