Saturday, August 24, 2019

Andrew McCabe and George Papadopoulos: Two-Tiered Justice

George Papadopoulos claimed that a meeting he'd had with the mysterious Maltese professor, Josef Mifsud, happened slightly before the green-as-grass 28-year-old was recruited into the Trump campaign.

It wasn't enough that prosecutors and agents had scared the bejesus out Papadopoulos by scheming to arrest him as he disembarked from a flight in the early evening - after the court was closed, ensuring that young George would spend the night in jail.

I couldn't help thinking about the hardball treatment of Papadopoulos when, yesterday, CNN announced the hiring of Andrew McCabe as a commentator.

McCabe, of course, was the FBI's deputy director before being fired after Justice Department's inspector general Michael Horowitz concluded that he made multiple false statements to the FBI - including under oath.

As I've previously recounted, McCabe is quite the operator: According to the IG report, to try to throw snoops of the scent, the then-deputy director indignantly reamed out subordinates in New York and Washington - as if these FBI field offices were guilty of the leak McCabe himself had orchestrated.

Brennan, who said he was really sorry, was inked by MSNBC. As Papadopoulos can tell you, non-government types who mislead government investigations don't do so well.

They see the false-statements investigations of Andy McCabe and George Papadopoulos and think, "Hey, wait a second".


https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/andrew-mccabe-george-papadopoulos-two-tiered-justice/

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