A lack of candor
More filth: Trump commits crime after crime right in front of us, and his DoJ decides it can indict Andrew McCabe if it wants to.
Federal prosecutors have recommended bringing criminal charges against Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI and a frequent target of criticism by President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the decision said Thursday.
McCabe was fired from the FBI just before his retirement in March 2018 after the Justice Department’s internal watchdog concluded that he had improperly authorized a leak about a federal investigation into the Clinton Foundation in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. Investigators also concluded that he displayed a lack of candor when asked about the leak.
McCabe’s lawyers had asked the Justice Department’s principal deputy attorney general to overrule the recommendation that he be indicted, according to the person, who was not authorized to comment publicly on the communications. The department rejected that request, clearing the way for a criminal charge.
Trump is too busy scheduling more Air Force stopovers at his golf course to answer questions.
If “lack of candor” is a criminal offense, there is no bigger criminal than Donald J. Trump, who lies about absolutely anything and everything.
So why aren’t they going after Clinton instead? Why this perceived enemy over her?
Blood Knight,
Because they know they’ll lose in the end. Hillary’s too high-profile, meaning that (1) the press coverage of her inevitable acquittal (quite possibly on a motion to dismiss) would be huge and embarrassing; (2) she would have no trouble raising the funds for an aggressive legal defense; and (3) it would jeopardize a tradition that Trump is hoping to count on himself someday, of not prosecuting one’s political opponents.
But McCabe is a relatively small fish. When he is inevitably acquitted, he will likely be financially ruined unless he can secure a good book deal. The general public will either not hear the news at all (if they rely on Fox, Sinclair, etc.), or will see a minor headline about some former FBI guy whose name is at best vaguely familiar. But every government staffer will take note that if you don’t indulge the Trump administration’s every whim (why yes, that hurricane was totally going to hit Alabama!), you risk being arrested, shamed, and bankrupted. Even if you win, you lose. Which means that even if Trump loses, he wins, in this context.
AARRGGGHHHHH
Rumor going around is that a grand jury refused to indict McCabe.
I trust I don’t have to repeat the old joke about ham sandwiches.
Yes I just saw a tweet by Natasha Bertrand that says
With a photo of the letter.
Oh I don’t know. Our politicians here in the UK get told off just for using expenses funded by taxpayers to clean their moats. Everyone has a moat, right? Around their second home? Which they are charging taxpayers for? Personally I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a moat and moats don’t clean themselves, right? It’s a disgrace to imagine that MPs might have to pay for their own moats to be cleaned, while maintaining a second home at taxpayers expense which they rent out for profit.
I bring the moat thing up fairly often to show the difference between what a scandal was a few years ago – MPs gaming the expenses system to live literally like kings, for example – and today’s scandals, which are Prime Ministers orchestrating coups and everyone noticing but not really caring.
Weird, isn’t it? A few years ago there was a lot of kerfuffle in the press about Johnson claiming £16.50 in expenses on a wreath he planned to lay somewhere or other. Quite right, lay wreaths at your own expense, dickhead, I don’t believe I should have to pay for it. But nobody seemed to care very much when he shut down parliament to suit his own extraordinarily self-serving and dubious political agenda. I have little to no intention of duckduckgoing Johnson (alternative search engines are available) but I’ll bet the wreath thing comes up rather than the coup thing and we know exactly why/