[FoxNews] The Justice Department said Friday it will not pursue criminal charges against former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, after a nearly two-year-long investigation into accusations brought by the agency's independent watchdog who found that he lacked "candor" when questioned about leaking to the media.
In a letter to McCabe attorney Michael Bromwich obtained by Fox News, Justice Department attorney J.P. Cooney said the investigation is now “closed.”
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It was known a year ago the DOJ IG investigation, even though they were referred for criminal prosecution, would not result in DOJ charges against McCabe or Comey. This doesn't exclude charges being brought by the Barr/Durham investigation.
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#2 Does this mean that it's no longer illegal to lie to LEOs?
#6
The DOJ added: “Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed."
Is the government going to come up with some such weasel wording for Strzok, Page, Ohrs, Comey and the others and exonerate all of them?
#9
Here's a reminder that a former prosecutor and sheriff's deputy gave me. Say Nothing, say Nothing, say Nothing. Let your lawyer talk. You say nothing. Probably more than 90% of cases fall apart if you say nothing.
#10
So when are they going to exonerate Gen Flynn?
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There are probably lots of other things to go after him for, and this time with a properly constructed case, not one done under the supervision of his allies
#16
I'm thinking TW at #11 may have it right. I was initially annoyed, but then as I read more came to the conclusion that there was likely a more solid case coming. I hope so at least.
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Patience. You ask for harvest when the corn is green.
[Baltimore Sun] Federal prosecutors laid out an array of new details from their investigation into former Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh in documents filed Thursday, as they argued she should receive nearly five years in prison for conspiracy and tax evasion.
The blistering, 37-page sentencing memorandum, accompanied by financial records and copies of checks, for the first time pinpointed the number of "Healthy Holly" children's books Pugh sold ‐ and re-sold. It outlined her efforts to conceal her dealings, including lying to FBI agents who came to her house to seize her cellphone.
It also raised further questions regarding the roles of city Comptroller Joan Pratt, who co-owned a business with Pugh that prosecutors say was used to launder an illegal campaign contribution and which filed a false tax return, and of a major city contractor who wrote out a check to that business in addition to buying Pugh's books.
"The chronology of events since 2011, comprising Pugh's seven-year scheme to defraud, multiple years of tax evasion, election fraud, and attempted cover-ups, including brazen lies to the public, clearly establishes the deliberateness with which she pursued financial and political gain without a second thought about how it was harming the public's trust," wrote Assistant U.S. Attorneys Martin J. Clarke and Leo J. Wise.
"It was not rash behavior," they wrote. "Rather, it was a recurring pattern of well-executed steps that built on each other, becoming more audacious and complex leading up to the mayoral election."
Pugh, 69, was elected mayor in 2016. The Democrat resigned in May after federal agents raided her City Hall office and her houses.
She reached a plea agreement in November with prosecutors and is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 27 by U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow in Baltimore.
Prosecutors told the judge that Pugh knowingly sought to defraud purchasers of her Healthy Holly books, reap financial and political benefits, and pay little or no taxes. They accused her of compounding an array of problems already facing the city and of feigning an interest in addressing childhood obesity with the books on healthy lifestyles for kids.
At one point they referred to her as a "scammer," and said the children's books were intended to woo voters and bolster her campaign coffers. Purchasers told investigators they felt the books advanced the goals of their community outreach programs.
Yet, "many of the purchasers acknowledged that they probably would not have purchased the books if Pugh had not been the author," prosecutors said.
[PJ] A New Hampshire man was arrested Thursday afternoon "after allegedly assaulting a 15-year-old Trump supporter and two adults at a polling site during the state’s first-in-the-nation primary earlier this week," Fox News exclusively reports. The teen's mother told Fox News that the assault left her son "traumatized."
Patrick Bradley, 34, of Windham, N.H., was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct.
Bradley reportedly got in the face of the teenage boy who was wearing a red MAGA hat and volunteering at the local high school, which was a polling place for the New Hampshire primary.
The boy’s mother described the incident involving her son in an interview with Fox News. "My son stayed home from school on Tuesday for a doctor's appointment and we drove by the high school to go vote. When we got there, we saw Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, and my son was over the moon," she said. "My son is the most patriotic kid you’d ever meet in your life."
Update from Twitchy at 9:00 a.m.ET: Donald Trump, Jr tracked him downand called him, reporter Andy Ngo discovered the attacker is Antifa.
#1
Y'know, if I hadn't noticed that tiny sliver of flesh betwixt beard and baseball shirt I'd have thought his blackbeard hairdo continued downward, in Pippi Longstocking pigtails...
#4
"Adult" assaulted a "child" who did nothing. An example should be made out of this guy and he should be given the worst case sentences for whatever crimes he's charged with and they should add child endangerment to the list.
[Breitbart] Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday on ABC’s "The View" that his son Hunter Biden had "done nothing but good things his whole life."
Co-host Joy Behar said, "People wanted to see you really get mad when people started lying about Hunter and saying things about Hunter. I don’t know that you got mad enough."
Biden said, "Well, you know I would like to be able to be back in high school and just have he and I in a room."
Behar said, "Of course, I know."
Biden continued, "But all kidding aside, here’s the deal. Look, it is hurtful, particularly when guys like Lindsey Graham, who’s a friend of mine, do these things."
Behar asked, "He’s still a friend?"
Biden said, "Look, presidents can’t ‐I plan on being president. Presidents can’t hold grudges. You got to heal. You got to heal the country, and I just don’t want to let myself get into the mood of ‐like, for example, people say, why don’t I attack his kids, they’re making millions?"
Behar said, "No, no."
Jill Biden said, "You got to be above it."
Biden continued, "That’s not how we were raised. And look, nobody has said he’s done anything wrong. This is a guy who has done nothing but good things his whole life, my son. He ran a food program WFP USA, a whole range of things. But look, it’s what it is. We knew it was going to be ugly."
And nary a mention of either Hoover's (much bigger) scam with China Inc. - after flying with Pop-Plugz on AurForce One to Beijing - or Biden's bro who, with zero construction industry experience, suddenly become one of three partners in a form awarded a $1.5 BILLION reconstruction contract in Iraq early in Biden's tenure as VP.
#9
"My son, that lovable dog-faced pony soldier, is a saint I tell you. A saint. I'm thinking about putting him up for the Nobel Peace Prize or the Sister Teresa award. He belongs up there right next Saint Obama known for ever more as "The One".
#11
It seems like Joe doesn't know where he is much of the time. Maybe going for the dementia defense. After looking at the McCabe fiasco, it seems that if you are a Dem and work for the feral govmint, you get a pass.
[Red State] - When you get too egomaniacal socialists working under the same banner, the turf wars were always coming. Apparently, they are here between Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
A new piece in Vanity Fair details the intra-party fighting, which includes some pretty hilarious reports from the campaign trail. For example, did you know that AOC did a campaign appearance for Bernie Sanders while he was in Washington for the impeachment trial and didn’t even mention his name?
...The Bernie camp is also annoyed by AOC’s immigration rhetoric. Yes, apparently AOC is even too radical for an open borders socialist when it comes to immigration. America's answer to Cannibal Ellochka vs. Shopping Mall's Trotsky
#7
Comrade Raj, I gladly consent to the redistribution of SOTD to Comrade Mercutio. (Cue rousing chorus of the Intnernationale, which will feature in Commissar Bernie's next TV spot.)
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Intnernationale
In Commissar Bernie's Amerika, correct spelling will be recognized for the bourgeois affectation that it is.
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"Fighting Between Bernie Sanders and AOC Begins"
I'll double my popcorn order. :-D
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Oh, a Stalin vs Trotsky fight? Pass thepopcornAXE.
#13
Surreal. Esp because they're such preposterous shitheads.
I mean, Trotsky led an army that defeated the Tsar's generals in a civil war. Stalin single-handedly took over an entire movement and gained complete dominance over the largest landmass on the planet.
And we're using them as stand-ins for a retarded child bartender from Queens and a pathetic clownish Lenin impersonator from Brooklyn who've never achieved a single thing in their pathetic absurd little lives?
Really? REALLY??
Ask not for whom The Shitshow rolls. It rolls for thee.
#3
Barr saw the Trump tweet THEN looked into the Stone sentencing recommendations of his DOJ attorneys and realized their recommendation was too severe and ordered adjustments. Keep tweeting, Trump.
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Original post fixed. I didn’t have to make any changes, g(r)omgoru — sometimes Fred’s code does that to images. Its spirit animal is a puppy, I think, needing the occasional scratch behind the ears.
It’s a tempest in a teapot, giving NPR, et al another red flag to charge instead of paying attention to what the hands are doing. From Fox News:
The White House says President Trump isn't "bothered" or deterred after Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that the president's tweets "make it impossible for me to do my job," in an unusual swipe at the president -- although Barr emphasized that Trump "has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case."
Barr said he was "of course" ready for blowback from Trump for his comments, although he said he was focused only on doing his job.
In response, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump "wasn’t bothered" by Barr's remarks, even as she defended the president's social media use.
“The president wasn’t bothered by the comments at all and he has the right, just like any American citizen, to publicly offer his opinions," Grisham said. "President Trump uses social media very effectively to fight for the American people against injustices in our country, including the fake news. The President has full faith and confidence in Attorney General Barr to do his job and uphold the law."
Barr and Trump are united in their belief that Trump and his allies have been unfairly targeted, Fox News is told.
At a Manhattan, NYC fundraiser @JoeBiden, predicts he'll win South Carolina and says of @TheDemocrats presidential field: "I'm the only one who has ever gotten anything big done. I don't think any of them have what it takes."
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Sanders keeps climbing. Problem with him is as his likelihood of actually becoming President increases (even a little) Wall Street will factor that into the business models, which will weaken the economy (even a little), which will increase the likelihood of Sanders becoming President. Not sure if the mathematical limit will be a Trump win or a Sanders win, but it will be a lot tougher for Trump than it looks right now.
#3
It's rayciss to expet (not a typo) these sorts of jurors to be impartial.
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#4
Stone's lawyers were incompetent to let anybody who is President of a School Board on a trial against a Republican defendant. I think statistically the odds of a School Bureaucrat being hard left is 90% or higher.
#6
Run away jury. Jury-rigged. It just keeps turning more and more to $hit. Jeebus, why don't the judges toss out all these Mueller-related made up process crimes. All this should have been stopped from the gitgo. Gitmo for all those involved in the gitgo.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PJ] A New Hampshire man was arrested Thursday afternoon "after allegedly assaulting a 15-year-old Trump supporter and two adults at a polling site during the state’s first-in-the-nation primary earlier this week," Fox News exclusively reports. The teen's mother told Fox News that the assault left her son "traumatized."
[Breitbart] Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday on ABC’s "The View" that his son Hunter Biden had "done nothing but good things his whole life."
