Judge presses DOJ to make a decision on Andrew McCabe charges.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., wants the Department of Justice to make up its mind about whether or not it plans to indict former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, warning that he'll start releasing documents about the motives behind McCabe's firing if the agency doesn't decide his fate by next month.
The hearing was part of an ongoing lawsuit brought by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington against the Justice Department over records related to McCabe's firing. He was terminated in March of last year by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions,, on the grounds he'd made an unauthorized disclosure to the media and then lied about it.
Lawyers for the Justice Department have contended that those documents should not be made public because McCabe still might be charged criminally.last month following reports that prosecutors had presented the case to a grand jury that declined to indict him. "We're in dark times where there's growing evidence that the president aided by the attorney general is using the power of his office to go after perceived political enemies. He's going after the intelligence community. He's going after the law enforcement community. And we believe that Mr. McCabe was swept up in that," Weismann said.
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