So you're saying that after over 3 years in office, Sniffles has not been able to clean up the 'deeply corrupt Beltway?'Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 8:03 am » wrote:Little Miss Marxist lies, then censors the truth.Misty » 14 Feb 2020 2:02 pm » wrote:Gee, I wonder why Barr has to keep hand picking all these 'outside' prosecutors.
Looks like he has to shop around the country for a prosecutor willing to do his (or Sniffles) bidding.
Here's a hint, psycho. He's choosing people from outside the deeply corrupt Beltway.
People at the top of our government.DOJ drops leak case vs. McCabe, judge said White House involvement like a 'banana republic'
The judge, a George W. Bush appointee, said "the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted" was like a "banana republic."
The Department of Justice has told lawyers for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that he will not face criminal charges for allegedly lying to investigators about a leak to the media, the ex-official's attorneys said Friday.
The decision was released on the same day it was revealed that a federal judge had expressed concerns months ago that McCabe's case was looking like a "banana republic" prosecution.
"We write to inform you that, after careful consideration, the government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client,” J.P. Cooney of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., told McCabe’s attorneys in a letter Friday.
“Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed.”
McCabe's lawyers Michael R. Bromwich and David Schertler responded in a statement, saying, "At long last, justice has been done in this matter."
President Donald Trump had publicly urged that action be taken against McCabe, the former deputy FBI director who briefly became acting head of the agency after Trump fired James Comey in 2017.
"He LIED! LIED! LIED!" Trump wrote in one 2018 tweet about McCabe after the Justice Department's inspector general found McCabe "lacked candor" when being interviewed about whether he was a source for two news articles pertaining to the FBI in 2016.
The Justice Department's announcement came one day after Attorney General William Barr pushed back against criticism he's using the department to do Trump's bidding, and said Trump's tweeting about his agency's work was undercutting his authority.
"Public statements and tweets made about the department, about people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the department that we're doing our work with integrity," Barr, who was sworn in a year ago Friday, told ABC News.
McCabe told CNN on Friday that "the timing is curious" but he was relieved that the Justice Department "did the right thing today."
"To have this horrific black cloud that's been hanging over me and my family for almost the last two years, to have that finally lifted is just unbelievable," he said.
"It's a relief that I'm not sure I can really explain to you adequately. It's just a very emotional moment for my whole family."
McCabe has denied intentionally misleading investigators.
He told CNN that he has maintained from the day the inspector general's report came out that if investigators "followed the law and they followed the facts, that I would have nothing to worry about.
But as the president's interest in pursuing his perceived political enemies continued over the last two years, we were getting more and more concerned about where this would end up."
Those worries had increased in recent days, he told the network.
"I've been greatly concerned by what I've seen take place in the White House and in the Department of Justice, quite frankly, in the last week," McCabe said.
"And certainly the president's kind of revenge tirade following his acquittal in the impeachment proceeding has only kind of amplified my concerns about what would happen in my own case."
The Justice Department's decision came the same day it was required by a judge to make details about the McCabe investigation public in a case stemming from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The court transcripts, released after the Justice Department's letter to McCabe's lawyers, show prosecutors struggling with how to proceed in his case, and the judge in the matter expressing concerns about political pressure.
In one of the newly released transcripts, from a hearing in July, Cooney, who heads the Washington U.S. Attorney's Office fraud unit, told the judge they expected to make a decision on whether to charge McCabe within 60 days.
When they returned to court in early September, Cooney told Judge Reggie Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, that no decision had been made, but they expected to have one within days.
At the next hearing, on Sept. 30, Cooney said "That prediction was obviously incorrect."
The judge asked why it was taking so long.
"I don't know why it's so difficult for a decision to be made," Walton said.
"Either you have a case or you don't."
Cooney told the judge "this is an exceedingly difficult matter and situation" and that he needed another three months.
"I don't get it," the judge said, telling Cooney he needed to make a decision in the CREW lawsuit and that "it seems to me from the standpoint of Mr. McCabe, he has a right to have the government make a decision and not hold his life in limbo pending a decision as to what's going to happen."
'It's a banana republic'
Walton added, "I understand there are political implications and other implications involved in reference to whether you go forward.
And I fully appreciate the complexity of the assessment, especially — unfortunately, to be candid — in light of the way by the White House, which I don't think top executive officers should be doing.
Because it does, I think, really complicate your ability to get a fair adjudication from the government's prospective.
"Because the public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted," Walton said.
"I just think it's a banana republic when we go down that road, and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably, even if not, influencing the ultimate decision.
I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undue inappropriate pressure being brought to bear."
"It's very disturbing that we're in the mess that we're in in that regard," Walton added later.
"Because I think having been a part of the prosecution for a long time and respecting the role that prosecutors play in the system.
I just think the integrity of the process is being unduly undermined by inappropriate comments and actions on the part of people at the top of our government.
I think it's very unfortunate. And I think as a government and as a society, we're going to pay a price at some point for this."
Trump has sounded off repeatedly about McCabe in interviews and on Twitter over the past three years, including calling him "a poor man's J. Edgar Hoover."
Among Trump's problems with the Justice Department veteran is that McCabe ordered obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations into the president after he fired Comey, who was investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March of 2018, two days before he was set to retire and become eligible for full pension benefits.
McCabe filed suit against the Justice Department in August, saying he was fired as a result of “Trump’s unconstitutional plan and scheme to discredit and remove DOJ and FBI employees who were deemed to be his partisan opponents because they were not politically loyal to him.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justic ... d-n1137066
PROVEN LIAR, GUTLESS COWARD and TRAITOR that you are you just repeat the SAME STUPID LIES over and over that have already BEEN TOTALLY DEBUNKED and GUTLESS COWARD that you are you just ran away since you are of COURSE far too STUPID to ever even try to address FACTS or logic or any substance whatsoever. DANCE Treason Monkey DANCETermin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 12:57 pm » wrote:
Speaking of banana republics, what did this judge say about the coup attempt against Trump by high Obama and Deep State officials and the 100's of felonies they committed in the attempt?
Framing......ROFL.Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 1:11 pm » wrote:And now there's a prosecutor looking into the abuse of power in the framing of General Flynn.
He's not a **** king.Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 1:11 pm » wrote:If you strike a king, you must kill him.
Inspectors General don't fire people you idiot.Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 12:57 pm » wrote:Look at little Miss Marxist express sympathy for a corrupt Beltway hack who committed four crimes.
Trump didn't fire McCabe, psycho. Obama's IG holdover did.
It was Sessions who fired McCabe, no doubt at Sniffles' instructions.Q: What happens when an investigation is complete?
A: Generally, when an investigation is complete, OIG will produce a report based upon relevant witness interviews, records, and other evidence. The report will be reviewed within OIG to ensure that it is fact-based, objective, and clear. It will then be provided to appropriate individuals, including management, accompanied by recommendations as warranted, so that they may consider any appropriate corrective actions based on the results of OIG's investigation.
https://www.oig.doc.gov/Pages/FAQs-Abou ... tions.aspx
Which 'four crimes' or 'felonies' did McCabe commit, and be specific?Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 12:57 pm » wrote:And I still expect him to be indicted for the felonies he committed. You can weep when he's sentenced to prison.
My mistake.Misty » 15 Feb 2020 2:21 pm » wrote:It was Sessions who fired McCabe, no doubt at Sniffles' instructions.
Four instances of lying to the FBI, Dim. Why do you think he's so relieved he hasn't been indicted?Which 'four crimes' or 'felonies' did McCabe commit, and be specific?Termin8tor » 15 Feb 2020 12:57 pm wrote:And I still expect him to be indicted for the felonies he committed.
You can weep when he's sentenced to prison.
And don't give me that **** that you've posted it many times in one of your stupid threads.
Except everyone on the board with common sense and integrity.Nobody believes that ****.
Aside from losing his home and being utterly broke and going into debt, Mueller's hacks threatened to indict his son and ruin his life, too.Framing......ROFL.And now there's a prosecutor looking into the abuse of power in the framing of General Flynn.
Are we having fun yet?
He pleaded guilty.
Google what the phase means, dim.He's not a **** king.If you strike a king, you must kill him.
Speaking of banana republics, what did this judge say about the coup attempt against Trump by high Obama and Deep State officials and the 100's of felonies they committed in the attempt?
Lindsay Graham said he wants to know what Obama knew about it all.
And the Senate is calling most if not all of those behind it, including those involved in the four illegal FISA warrants.
Durham's "exponentially expanding" criminal probe is apparently expanding even wider.
Barr accepted 100's of pages of evidence of Democrat corruption in Ukraine.
Fake Republican Rick Wilson is as lunatic a liar as any of the leftist wackjobs on MS-LSD. He reminds me of Democrat presidential candidate Michael Avenatti.Misty » 14 Feb 2020 6:53 pm » wrote:Rick Wilson has such a way with words.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Why do you keep censoring this important factual information, psycho?Liar.
Liar, criminal and coup participant Peter Strzok, who is reviled and distrusted by real Republicans.
YES she should be indicted, and Stone DESERVES a new trial now that the facts have come out!:Termin8tor » 16 Feb 2020 8:41 am » wrote:
Her appalling bias is on public record.
Stone's lawyers tried, but the Obama judge refused, meaning either the jury foreman hid their bias when questioned about it.
Either way, Stone either gets a new trial or the case is thrown out.
How is factual information a "smear," wackjob?
She shouldn't have been on the jury at all, let alone as foreman, and as a lawyer she absolutely knew that.
Maybe she should be indicted, professionally and personally ruined like General Stone was.
Never saw you express one single word of outrage over that.
Roger Stone jury foreperson comes forward to defend prosecutors - but social media history of the failed Democrat candidate reveals she mocked his arrest, labeled Trump supporters racist and posed with ex-DNC chair Donna Brazil
Tomeka Hart revealed on Wednesday that she was foreperson on Stone jury Hart unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Tennessee as a Democrat in 2012 She is also a former Memphis City Schools Board President Her social media shows a long history of anti-Trump commentsShe called Trump supporters racists and tweeted about Stone case before trial
By KEITH GRIFFITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 02:35 EST, 13 February 2020
Tomeka Hart revealed on Wednesday that she was foreperson on the Roger Stone jury
The foreperson on the jury that convicted Roger Stone has come forward, and is revealed to be a failed Democrat candidate for Congress and activist vehemently opposed to President Donald Trump.
Tomeka Hart, a former Memphis City Schools Board President, came forward as the Stone jury foreperson in a Facebook post on Wednesday, voicing support for prosecutors in the case.
Hart confirmed to The Daily Memphian that she wrote the Facebook post, but she declined an interview with the newspaper.
Stone supporters were shocked when a review of Hart's social media posts showed that she posted on Twitter mocking Stone's dramatic arrest prior to being seated on the jury, and frequently denounced Trump, including calling the president and his supporters racists.
It's unclear whether Stone's political views and social media history were disclosed during jury selection, potentially raising questions about fairness that could impact the verdict on appeal.
Don't forget NAMBLA, the ACLU, the Boy Scouts of America and the Harper Valley PTA, ignorant trollop.solon » 11 Feb 2020 4:19 pm » wrote:My GOD the STUPIDITY. I cannot IMAGINE the STUPIDITY required to not understand the difference between We will hold up our foreign aid until you fire a prosecutor SO CORRUPT that the Ukrainian parliment the Ukrainian people, The IMF the WORLD BANK, th EU, OUR NATIONAL POLICY and both Democratic and REPUBLICAN Senators want him gone
Oh, she was in HIGH DUDGEON over that - until she learned the photo she was puling over had been taken in the obama years.Termin8tor » 16 Feb 2020 8:03 am » wrote:
Speaking of gaslighting, you've shrieked in fake outrage that Trump locked kids in cages while lying that Obama didn't start that practice.
Shut up PUNK. I don't usually read your post because of THIS. I checked this time because there were FACTS that you MIGHT have addressed I should have known better PUNK. You pathetic vulgar child. KNOWING you are too STUPID to even TRY to ADDRESS THE FACTS about this which I have ALREADY beat you over the head with you return to the FIVE YEAR OLD PUNK who is SO PETTY so STUPID and SO BORING just GFY you are NEVER going to have the brains or maturity to contribute to an adult conversation so just BE aCannonpointer » 16 Feb 2020 11:31 am » wrote: Don't forget NAMBLA, the ACLU, the Boy Scouts of America and the Harper Valley PTA, ignorant trollop.
Thanks for the narrative - now go clean your snatch. :
There was narrative, you ignorant, misguided slut.solon » 16 Feb 2020 12:18 pm » wrote:
Shut up PUNK. I don't usually read your post because of THIS. I checked this time because there were FACTS that you MIGHT have addressed
I will do this ONCE then I am done with you PUNK. You are a LIAR. Narrative is a word you use and don't understand about why you cant ADDRESS FACTS you don't like. If if was onhy a NARRATIVE that the IMF wanted him gone why were they withholding a LOAN until he was gone WHICH I SHOWED. Why was I able to show the NAMES of high level EU people who were calling for him to go? Why was I able to show a LETTER with THREE REPUBLICAN SENATORS calling for a CHANGE in the prosecutors office? Why were there PROTESTS in the STREETS fo have him GONE WHICH I SHOWED.Cannonpointer » 16 Feb 2020 12:37 pm » wrote: There was narrative, you ignorant, misguided slut.