February 16, 2020

"Why not indict McCabe on felony false-statements charges? That is the question being pressed by incensed Trump supporters."

"After all, the constitutional guarantee of equal justice under the law is supposed to mean that McCabe gets the same quality of justice afforded to the sad sacks pursued with unseemly zeal by McCabe’s FBI and Robert Mueller’s prosecutors. George Papadopoulos was convicted of making a trivial false statement about the date of a meeting. Roger Stone was convicted of obstruction long after the special counsel knew there was no Trump–Russia conspiracy, even though his meanderings did not impede the investigation in any meaningful way. And in the case of Michael Flynn’s false-statements conviction, as McCabe himself acknowledged to the House Intelligence Committee, even the agents who interviewed him did not believe he intentionally misled them.... "

From "Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?" by Andrew McCarthy (National Review).

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walter said...

(Back in '16, covering election, I had to consider parking lot vandalism potential in WI.)

walter said...

When you substantively connect actual violence to commenter Achilles, I will take your distraction seriously, Ingot.

bagoh20 said...

When you show me your tits:

1) I stop hearing what you are saying.
2) I feel the need to support whatever it is that made you show them to me.
3) The message I get is that you mostly just want to show me your tits.
4) I'm reminded of the value of free speech.

bagoh20 said...

Did I hear someone chant "Hey Hey, Ho Ho"?

Achilles said...

Michael K said...
One would think that people who served in the military and are now veterans wouldn’t smear the Vindman brothers. One would think that the veterans who had the guts to testify wouldn’t be demonized by Trumpists who are also veterans.

I assume you know nothing of the UCMJ. Vindman went out of chain of command, leaked classified information to one not authorized and acted in favor of another country, one he bragged had offered him an office as Defense Minister.

All those are court martial offenses.


Followed by years in prison.

But we were just service members. Not special ones like Vindman.

We would have gotten 1 year in prison for every one of the emails Hillary deleted.

Just over 33,000.

Fuck democrats.

Tim said...

Super duper patriotic FBI took how many months to look over Epstein's island? Why? Too many dems involved?

walter said...

Personally, re Inga's post mortem child reaction, not feeling very convinced.
If YOU are similarly involved, do freakin' tell.

Josephbleau said...

Blogger Amadeus 48 said...

I have served on a jury once, in a personal injury case that involved about $8,000. It was basically a slap game between two insurance companies.

I was on a jury for a Federal legal malpractice case once. I wanted to find for the plaintiff and award damages of fifty cents.

Birkel said...

SJWs have taken up the BAMN moniker.
They mean the 'A' and anybody who denies that is a fool.
I first learned of BAMN in graduate school.
They were at the end of the Long March.

They mean it.

Josephbleau said...

This whole too big to fail, can't indict because it will destroy the country is deep state serving BS. Once they know they are too big to fail they can be crooks and get away with anything with guilty intent beforehand.

I read Tom Clancy, I know that when the deep crook gets caught some loyal agent pays a visit with a syringe full of bad heroin or the guy jogs into a bus, time will tell eh?

gadfly said...

DOJ/Trump rushed to indict Andy McCabe because he supposedly committed a crime but in reality, his fast approaching retirement made Trump want to punish by denying his retirement earnings . So they lied about the need to skip the normal 30 day response period associated with McCabe's high place in the FBI. The claim by the DOJIG was false that Andy lied about keeping his WSJ interview a secret from Jim Comey in the face of a McCabe email proving otherwise. So the two year delay resulted because the Trump autocracy knew that the Grand Jury wouldn't charge the Acting Director. During this whole fiasco, Donald Trump and his minions screamed about putting McCabe in jail, despite failure to mention that the FBI’s Assistant Director of Public Affairs, Michael Kortan, worked closely with McCabe on the WSJ story. That would seem to be deliberate failure by the IG to include this exculpatory information in his report.

Clyde said...

Why? Because there’s still a swampload of Deep State out there, like the 1100 current and former prosecutors who demand that Barr resign. The Swamp does NOT want to be drained.

Lee Moore said...

Here's a tip for The Donald. Make an executive order requiring the DoJ IG to move to West Virginia, and requiring the IG and his staff to conduct all interviews in West Virginia.

That should solve the DC jury problem.

Danno said...

I think he should be charged just to make him go broke with the legal fees this entails.

Jim at said...

Ah, nice whitewash of what Achilles has been saying. And that you side with his rhetoric is telling. I see this in Trumpists with increasing regularity now. All the scare tactics regarding the Bernie Bros and you Trumpists condone the violent rhetoric from those in your midst.

Yancey is correct. You are too stupid to figure it out.

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