Mccabe Case News Today

One prosecutor assigned to the case recently left. an unusual step so close to an indictment. another prosecutor departed for a private law firm and has expressed reservations about the merits of the case. one key witness testified that mccabe had no motive to lie because he was authorized as the fbis deputy director to speak to the media, so he would not have had to hide any discussions with reporters. another important witness testified he couldnt remember how the leak unfolded. both of those ...

I was looking at data, and i think in 2013, which was the last i was able to find data, it was like five in all of the federal cases, which is tens of thousands. it just rarely, rarely happens. often when it happens you suspect that prosecutors didnt really want to bring the case. like in police shootings where while they presented it to a grand jury but they didnt ask them to do anything. that is not the situation here. as the justice department has made very clear, theyre on board with the pro...

Trying to bring this prosecution against mccabe and what might be happening with the grand jury. "internally there was significant discussion about how best to proceed. two assistant u.s. attorneys at some point left the case. one left the u.s. attorneys office entirely. that person had concerns about how the mccabe case was being handled, according to people familiar with the matter. a federal grand jury investigating mccabe was suddenly recalled this week after a months-long hiatus, an indicat...

$250 million worth of military assistance to ukraine to help them push back against russia. trump has been blocking the dispersal of that money for almost a year. which of course is a great gift to vladimir putin. "washington post" also recently reported in a very provocative editorial that the trump administration was using that money to basically try to extort ukraine into help president trump with his re-election effort. the "post" reporting last week that the trump administration had conveye...

Justify his firing over this leak about the clinton investigation, news started to burble out of the justice department they were going to bring charges against mccabe too. "the new york times" had this report on it last month this article by adam 2k30e8dberg wp "prosecutors near decision over whether to seek an andrew mccabe indictment." even in that first report, though, twl signs that there might be what goldman called headwinds for prosecutors as they tried to lock him up. "prosecutors may f...

That you decided to start the obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president? >> i think the next day i met with the team investigate the russia cases and i asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward. i was very concerned that i was able to put the russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were i removed quickly or reassigned or fi...

I cant corroborate that there were two grand juries. we understand one grand jury that has been looking at this case and looked at it long ago was brought back. so the same people that looked at this long ago went months and then were brought pack. i cant speak to adams reporting if there was maybe another grand jury. >> matt zapotosky covers the justice department at the "washington post." this is -- its a sort of serpentine reporting in a way but its also incredibly important and just fascinat...

Against andrew mccabe being a terrible person, hes demanded his prosecution, demanded his prosecution for specific things, demanded his conviction, and its hard not to see how that might actually poison an effort to successfully convict somebody if -- i mean, the jury would have to believe this wasnt selective or politically motivated prosecution. and in this case i feel like the presidents actions here might have made that a really hard case. >> look, both of those things are huge problems and ...

The fact that the case is so weak and it looks very likely -- i should say theres a strong chance that they could lose and you add to that the fact you have it coming so closely on the heels of the craig thing. all of those arguments add up for a case you would typically pass on. mccabe has said hes going to air all of the departments dirty laundry. thats the kind of case the department typically doesnt want to bring. so when you look at that and you say none of the normal factors argue for indi...

On the department. with respect to what happened today, it is very unusual. you can think of a few things. matt went through some of them that might have happened. one is theyre continuing to investigate. they want to gather more evidence. that would seem very strange given that they had been gone for a few months. the other is that he is indicted and its under seal, but that would be strange too. you usually do that when the investigation is continuing or when someone is a flight risk and you n...