It's About Time

The non-partisan Inspector General of the Justice Department sent a criminal referral to the US attorney regarding former deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe.  Take a moment to understand what this means.  A referral by the IG to the US attorney almost always results in an indictment.  It is, in essence, a report by the IG to the US attorney that the IG believes that a crime was likely committed by the subject of the referral.  My prediction is that we will see in the near future an federal indictment of McCabe either for perjury or for lying to the FBI (or both).  This will be the first time that I can recall that someone who led the FBI (temporarily after Comey was fired) has actually been indicted.

The spin is already starting from the left that this is a very political move and means little.  That is not even close to the truth.  The IG is non-partisan.  The current IG was appointed under Obama and is NOT a Republican or beholden to President Trump.  The IG's report on the lying and perjury by McCabe was detailed and impossible to refute.  This will be an indictment of McCabe for federal crimes which ought to be rather easy to prove.

It's great that McCabe's indictment will show that even those at the top of the FBI are not above the law.  The real question, however, is whether or not McCabe will be used to flip on Comey, Lynch and maybe others in the Obama White House who participated in wrongdoing.  They all should be sweating today's news big time.