McCabe may be in hot dihydrogen monoxide

The fate of Andrew McCabe rests in the hands of a Trump appointee,  U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, so it stands to reason that if she decides to go ahead with the criminal referral and go for indictment, his lawyer and every leftist north of Mexico will blame Trump, not the person being indicted.

President Trump appointed Liu in July of last year. That's what presidents do--they appoint people who often think the same way they do.

The referral was sent by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and is now on Liu's desk for consideration. The reason for the criminal referral is over the finding that McCabe lied to fired FBI director James Comey and bureau investigators about a media disclosure.

"We were advised of the referral within the past few weeks," said McCabe's lawyer, Michael Bromwich. "Although we believe the referral is unjustified, the standard for an IG referral is very low. We have already met with staff members from the U.S. Attorney's Office."

Then he predictably added, "We are confident that, unless there is inappropriate pressure from high levels of the administration [he's of course talking about the president and trying to set a mind trap for the public to condemn the indictment if it goes forward], the U.S. Attorney's Office will conclude that it should decline to prosecute."

Unless, of course, they find sufficient evidence to prosecute.

But now Comey is also subject to an IG review over his apparent blasé [mis]handling of classified information in memos he wrote and gave to a non-FBI buddy to leak to the press.

Liu is a Republican, of course, but while she donated to the GOP in the past, there is no indication she donated to Trump. She was criticized during her Senate confirmation hearings for having met with Trump once while being considered for the job, a move that is unprecedented.

Nobody knows if Liu will opt to prosecute McCabe and her office declined comment on the referral.

According to the law, Federal Code 18 USC 1001, McCabe could face a fine and/or up to five years in the slammer. 

If convicted, my guess is that he'll never serve jail time because of his connections. I said the same about Hillary Clinton and I really hope to be proven wrong some day.

A former high-ranking DOJ official James Trusty [now there's a name], who served both under George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama told Fox News that prosecution was unlikely because it had to do with lying to another FBI employee. He called it an "employment probe."

That's why they call it the deep state. These people are judgment-proof.

The investigation into McCabe was first launched by Comey, even though he might not have intentionally gone after McCabe. He was looking for the source of a leak to The Wall Street Journal in an October 30, 2016 piece confirming an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

IG Horowitz found that McCabe lacked "candor" [he freaking lied] at least three times, and he told agents he didn't authorize the disclosure and didn't know who was responsible. But he did.

Comey said McCabe didn't tell him about the leak, but Comey is also a candor-lacker.



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