Scot free: Ex-FBI official McCabe won't face Justice Department charges

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  1. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    Not according to the DoJ. tRUMPs hand picked DoJ.
     
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  2. struth

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    Yes it was sad he had to lie to his own coworkers. Man can’t be trusted
     
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    If it was so clear, he would not have been cleared.

    McCabe has said his firing is the latest salvo in an “ongoing war” on the FBI and the special counsel investigating Trump-Russia connections. President Trump immediately pivoted from McCabe's firing over how he handled an aspect of a Clinton investigation to attacking the entire FBI for its ongoing investigation of him.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...wait-why-exactly-did-andrew-mccabe-get-fired/

    Why not just accept facts as they are? This is tRUMPs hand picked DoJ clearing him.
     
  4. struth

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    They decided not to prosecute McCabe on this one crime, he’s also a target in the Durham criminal probe. He’s likely cooperating
     
  5. dairyair

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    Impeached.

    Johnson, political? He was within a vote or a few votes of being convicted in the Senate.
     
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    I'd like to make a slight correction; if you wear a badge and you worked for Obama, you can lie with impunity, even to a court.
     
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    Yes it was political, all over Reconstruction, he was a Dem as well, and the GOP didn’t trust him. The only president to actually be impeached for high crimes or misdemeanors remains Clinton
     
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    Well I don't know how lying to the FBI is less aggregious under the law and I think but will send to be corrected McCabe lied to congresstional investigators. And Flynn's conversation with the Russian ambassador was not crime or breach of national security, such conversations with an incoming administration are routine and expected. It was quite immemorial.
     
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    I know this, but I counter the arguments that obama's DoJ was criminal in opening investigations. So now, 3 yrs later in tRUMPs admin, the DoJ is dismissing the conspiracy theories.
    This is an entertainment forum.
     
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    No. There are 3. For all impeachments are either or both high crimes or misdemeanors. Since those are really open subjective words.
    All 3 have been acquitted in the Senate.
     
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    No they aren’t they have specific definitions. Words have meeting. There has only been one for actual high crimes and misdemeanors, hence he was the only one not fully exonerated by the senate trial, requiring him to take a plea after he left office
     
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    Obstruction of congress is one of those misdemeanors.
     
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    Nope no it’s not.
     
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    It must be, he was impeached on that charge. One of the 2 charges.
     
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    It was predictable... just as most of the others in the Russia hoax and Bidens will all walk.

    The swamp always, always protects their own. Been standard operating procedure for millenia.

    Barr and Durham will offer up a few low level scapegoats and call it good. All of the major players will walk.
     
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    To save the FBI. Who would take them seriously once they knew it was once run by convicted felons?
     
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    So? They accused him of stuff that wasn’t a crime...he’ll face no charges after he leaves related to this. He was fully exonerated
     
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    You forgot to read all the facts he used to form an opinion. It's the facts I was directing the respondent to, not his opinion. It's pretty common knowledge that McCabe lied and he even admitted it himself.
     
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    Of course he's guilty - they're all guilty. But they're never going to hold themselves accountable.

    That's why it's called corruption. The institutions themselves are corrupt.

    The only way to advance in the organization is to demonstrate loyalty to the corrupt people above you.

    And so it goes from generation to generation.
     
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    These institutions need to be completely gutted... like cancer, it's the only way to fix the problem.
     
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    William Barr is the AG

    What's the holdup on those charges?

    Roger Stone non-arguably lied to Congress...
     
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    Except the WH lawyer tasked with looking into it thought it a possibility Flynn violated the Logan Act, among other things...

    Pretty memorial, if you ask me...
     
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    Incoming National Security advisors are EXPECTED to speak with foreign officials and discuss what the incoming administrations positions on important matters. He was never charged with a Logan Act violation, not even close. It was Samantha Powers at the UN of all places that was spying on Trump transition team conversations including a very ummemorial one between the incoming National Security Advisor and the Russian ambassador of which she had NO need to know and no ethical right to unmasked it.
     
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    I guess the opinion of the tRUMP DoJ was different.
    Maybe because:

     
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    So, tRUMP's hand picked DoJ is part of the corruption?
    He is part of this swamp?
     

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