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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: BassWrangler on April 19, 2018, 06:02:19 pm

Title: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: BassWrangler on April 19, 2018, 06:02:19 pm: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
By Pamela Brown, CNN
Thu April 19, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/justice-mccabe-criminal-referral/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/19/politics/justice-mccabe-criminal-referral/index.html)

Washington (CNN) -- The Justice Department's inspector general has sent a criminal referral regarding former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the US attorney's office in Washington, according to a source familiar with the matter.

A McCabe spokesperson, the Justice Department and US attorney's office all declined to comment.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: endicom on April 19, 2018, 07:09:47 pm: I hope that McCabe starts coming clean on what various FBI/DOJ people were doing during the election. And he may come clean if he sees that others are hanging him out to dry.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: Sanguine on April 19, 2018, 08:34:49 pm: Good grief - you mean something positive might actually happen?
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: BassWrangler on April 19, 2018, 08:46:14 pm: Quote from: Sanguine on April 19, 2018, 08:34:49 pm
Good grief - you mean something positive might actually happen?

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: Free Vulcan on April 19, 2018, 09:58:20 pm: Bout darn time.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: driftdiver on April 19, 2018, 10:00:46 pm: He might be the sacrificial goat but if he starts giving others up he will pull a Foster.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: mystery-ak on April 19, 2018, 10:17:36 pm: Meet the US attorney who could prosecute Andrew McCabe
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/jessie-liu-the-us-attorney-who-could-prosecute-andrew-mccabe (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/jessie-liu-the-us-attorney-who-could-prosecute-andrew-mccabe)
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: ConstitutionRose on April 20, 2018, 03:26:00 am: Quote from: BassWrangler on April 19, 2018, 08:46:14 pm
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

At dinner, my MIL told me that CNN says it's a nothing burger.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: BassWrangler on April 20, 2018, 05:20:15 am: Quote from: ConstitutionRose on April 20, 2018, 03:26:00 am
At dinner, my MIL told me that CNN says it's a nothing burger.

McCabe's attorney is out there saying the same. That way if he is prosecuted, they can spin it as "undue influence" from Trump.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: DB on April 20, 2018, 08:34:25 am: Quote from: BassWrangler on April 20, 2018, 05:20:15 am
McCabe's attorney is out there saying the same. That way if he is prosecuted, they can spin it as "undue influence" from Trump.

I doubt that story will float with the public when shown to be lying under oath - and not about sex - but political/personal gain at others expense.
Title: Re: Justice IG sends criminal referral of Andrew McCabe to US attorney
Post by: verga on April 20, 2018, 06:33:51 pm: One questions: what took so long?
Are they going after the low level first hoping to get to the big fish, both Clintons, Lynch, Holder etc....?