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Friday, April 20, 2018

Truly Strange

I just read an article in Salon about the criminal referral of Andrew McCabe by the Inspector General of the Justice Department to the US Attorney.  It was fun to see how the author tried to make the whole thing look bizarre.  It was (we were told) a move due to pressure by the White House for a referral of a crime that no one had ever heard of:  "lack of candor".

The truth is that lack of candor in this case is just legalese by the IG for "lying to the FBI", a very common crime in Washington.  Indeed, it's the same crime to which General Flynn pled guilty last year.  Somehow, Salon thought it was fine and appropriate when the target was Flynn, but it became and exotic and unknown crime when it was done by McCabe.

Second, the referral came from the Inspector General, a non-partisan official in the Justice Department who was last appointed to that position by one Barack Obama.  So we have either a non-partisan or an Obama loyalist (take your pick) who is supposedly following the wrongful wishes of President Trump.  I don't think so.

The reality is that McCabe is on very thin ice.  If the US Attorney indicts him, he's going to be convicted.

Oh, and while we are at it, we also learned today that Jim Comey is being investigated by the DOJ for leaking classified materials, namely his memoranda of meetings with the President that he gave to that Columbia law professor to give to the New York Times.  The only question here is why did it take a year for that investigation.  It was clear a year ago that Comey had intentionally leaked classified information.  Indeed, if you go back and look, you will see that I wrote about just that subject more than once roughly a year ago. 

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