McCabe, an ex-FBI official targeted by Trump, not charged
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Source: Washington Post
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether the longtime target of President Donald Trumps ire lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabes legal team said.
The decision, coming at the end of a tumultuous week between the Justice Department and the White House, is likely to further agitate a president who has loudly complained that federal prosecutors have pursued cases against his allies but not against his perceived political enemies.
The action resolves a criminal investigation that began nearly two years ago with a referral from the Justice Departments inspector generals office, which concluded that McCabe had 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.
The case was handled by the U.S. attorneys office in Washington, which was at the center of a public rift with Justice Department leadership this week over the recommended sentence for Trump ally Roger Stone. Senior Justice Department officials overruled a decision on a recommended prison sentence that they felt was too harsh, prompting the trial team to quit the case. Attorney General William Barr also took a rare public swipe at Trump by saying in a television interview that the presidents tweets about the Stone case and other matters were making his job impossible.
Read more: https://apnews.com/ec85aa4a4fdc5a36b7b85c7a34f1b8f9
Botany
(70,490 posts)Because their was nothing there to charge him with. End of story.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,994 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)previous thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142433534
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