If anyone else did what disgraced former FBI Director Andrew McCabe did, he or she would be charged with lying to federal investigators. But McCabe is a made federal man, so there will be no legal consequences for his actions, the Justice Department announced Friday in a statement revealing it would not bring criminal charges against the former official. "We write to inform you that, after careful consideration, the government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., told McCabe's attorneys. “Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed.” With Friday's announcement, McCabe joins an exclusive club of disgraced former bureaucrats, including perjurers such as former CIA Director John Brennan and disgraced former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, to whom the law apparently does not apply. In 2016, McCabe, who is now a paid CNN contributor, leaked sensitive details of the bureau’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation to the press. He then misled members of the FBI’s Inspection Division when they interviewed him about the leaks, according to a February 2018 Justice Department inspector general report. McCabe provided investigators with four misleading statements, three of which were while he was under oath. Giving false statements to federal investigators is a crime. In fact, it is the same crime for which the Justice Department went after President Trump's disgraced former national security adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. He should have worked for the FBI...MORE
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