Andy McCarthy is having a hard time giving up the idea that the FBI and DOJ under Comey and Lynch/Yates was not operating in good faith.
Here’s a question for Andy: If your buddy Comey really had a good faith desire to get to the bottom of the allegations in the Steele dossier, wouldn’t it have been much more effective to spy on Steele, rather than Carter Page?
Steele claimed these things originated in what contacts told him were said by other people. How about searching Steele’s communications, and the communications of those Steele was in contact in?
The answer? Because that might actually have led back to the Hillary campaign, and not to anonymous Russians.
Andy why did they need to renew the Page warrant? The first warrant would have given all they needed to go back years to collect Page’s communications and those he was in contact with, and they would have known this was a bunch of phony nonsense.
You must have not read the article. McCarthy says Comey lied/misrepresented the dossier (as to its corrupt origin, etc.)) to Trump in order to steer Trump away from shutting down the investigation.
Sessions Syndrome....
Andy McCarthy knows exactly what happened and he is not giving these people the benefit of the doubt.
McCarthy is painting a terrifying picture of very devious and sophisticated covert frame up job executed by Obama holdovers intended to remove President of the United States.
He is exposing the very serious nature of their attempted coup by abusing the power of NSA intelligence and surveillance methods along with established regime change techniques and how their conspiracy really had a very good chance to succeed IF they could keep it going.
This also explains the intent of Obama’s Executive Order 12333 - to facilitate sharing and dissemination of illegally obtained Trump spying to the various co conspirators while keeping the details of the investigation a secret from the Trump Administration. Furthermore, Obama’s Executive Order 12333 proves he was in the loop and running the show in the frame up and coup attempt against Donald Trump.
All was going according to plan until Trump stunned the conspirators by firing Comey.
Once Comey was fired, the conspirators knew the jig was up and they needed to cover their tracks and cover their asses, which was going to a challenge because they just got locked out of control of the system.
In order to keep their coup alive and to cover their butts, the conspirators needed a way to get the keys to the system back in their hands and under control. The the intent of the Mueller investigation is two fold - to keep the coup rolling in vain hopes of success , but more importantly, to manufacture legal justification for frame up job once the truth about their coup attempt to remove Trump and replace him with Hillary Clinton had been exposed.
This justification hinged on this paragraph from McCarthy's piece
“Now, you can believe that the Obama administration’s motives were political, that the Trump–Russia collusion narrative was mainly a Democratic-party concoction to rationalize Hillary Clinton’s defeat and cripple Trump’s fledgling administration. Or you can believe that Obama officials, altruistically motivated to protect national security, were convinced that Trump was in cahoots with the Kremlin, and they were desperately trying to prove it. Either way, though, the challenge for Obama’s team was to keep the investigation going even after Trump took office.”
As McCarthy says, there are only two possibilities
The first is Obama administration’s motives were political, that the Trump–Russia collusion narrative was mainly a Democratic-party concoction to rationalize Hillary Clinton’s defeat and cripple Trump’s fledgling administration.
The second is that Obama officials, altruistically motivated to protect national security, were convinced that Trump was in cahoots with the Kremlin, and they were desperately trying to prove it. Either way, though, the challenge for Obama’s team was to keep the investigation going even after Trump took office
If it is the first, then the conspirators are all guilty of a huge number of serious criminal acts and abuses of official power and office , all supporting an act of sedition against a sitting president who they consider their political enemy and who they conspired to keep from being elected.
If a case can be built that the second was true, then the seditious cabal can escape serious consequences for their attempts to sabotage Trumps election and then stage a coup against him when their plans failed and Trump assumed office. This is their plan B and what Strozk termed their insurance plan
Mueller has been working to execute their Plan B to continue the Comey coup and build their case that their Plan A was a legit counter intelligence operation and not a rouge illegal spying operation since he was appointed Special Prosecutor
The article by McCarthy is scary because he demonstrates just how serious the conspiracy against Trump was and how it would have probably succeeded without the heads up from Adm Rodgers, the IG investigation and the Committee investigations by Grassley, Nunes and Gowdy.