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FROM THE DEPT OF JUSTICE:

"The Deputy Attorney General again rejects Mr. McCabe’s recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect..."
"The Deputy Attorney General never authorized any recording that Mr. McCabe references. As the Deputy Attorney General previously has stated, based on his personal dealings with the President, there is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment..."
"...Subsequent to this removal, DOJ’s Inspector General found that Mr. McCabe did not tell the truth to federal authorities on multiple occasions, leading to his termination from the FBI."
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Steven Portnoy
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"I want to say to you now that I am sorry for what I have done."
"I want to apologize ..."

"While I cannot undo the past, I can assure that the future will be very different."
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"I say to you in the future that my behavior will be very different. I have already begun to change."
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Steven Portnoy
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As we await formal word that Mueller's work has wrapped up (and it could come soon -- no one's quite sure exactly when), here's a reminder of what DOJ's special counsel regulations, which date to the Clinton era, say. (1/7)
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