DOJ rejects McCabe's appeal to avoid prosecution

Andrew McCabe's appeal to avoid facing prosecution after charges were recommended by federal prosecutors for his criminal activity were rejected by the Department of Justice.

McCabe who was the former deputy FBI director "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," according to USA Today.

As reported by CNN [aka the Compromised News Network and the current employer of McCabe]:

The US attorney, Jessie Liu, recommended that McCabe should be indicted, and in a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen at the Justice Department last month, McCabe's attorneys argued against that recommendation, one of the sources said.

On Thursday, a senior DOJ official sent McCabe's legal team an email saying that that appeal had been rejected, according to a second person who is close to the legal team.

McCabe has said he never intentionally misled anyone. His attorneys say that any charges against him would be driven by politics and retaliation from President Donald Trump for the FBI's scrutiny of his administration.

NewsBusters' Curtis Houck noted that CNN didn't bother to mention the fact that McCabe is a paid CNN employee until the last sentence of its report. That's called burying the facts.

Republican lawmakers weighed in before the light turns green and New York cabbies blow their horn.

In true Trump fashion, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) tweeted:

Wow. Reports that a U.S. Attorney has formally recommended pursuing CRIMINAL CHARGES against former Deputy FBI Director and CNN analyst Andrew McCabe for lying to investigators, Hopefully this is merely the beginning of long overdue accountability. Justice will be done.

Meadows simply forgot the exclamation points.

It seems only fair that McCabe be indicted, just as Carter Page was indicted and Gen. Michael Flynn was indicted. And hopefully if he's found guilty, he will be sentenced for more than 14 days, if you know what I mean.


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