Posted on 05/30/2018 5:35:52 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
WASHINGTON — The former acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that offered significant behind-the-scenes details on the firing of Mr. McCabe’s predecessor, James B. Comey, according to several people familiar with the discussion.
Mr. Comey’s firing is a central focus of the special counsel’s investigation into whether President Trump tried to obstruct the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia. Mr. McCabe has turned over his memo to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
In the document, whose contents have not been previously reported, Mr. McCabe described a conversation at the Justice Department with the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, in the chaotic days last May after Mr. Comey’s abrupt firing. Mr. Rosenstein played a key role in the dismissal, writing a memo that rebuked Mr. Comey over his handling of an investigation into Hillary Clinton.
But in the meeting at the Justice Department, Mr. Rosenstein added a new detail: He said the president had originally asked him to reference Russia in his memo, the people familiar with the conversation said. Mr. Rosenstein did not elaborate on what Mr. Trump had wanted him to say.
To Mr. McCabe, that seemed like possible evidence that Mr. Comey’s firing was actually related to the F.B.I.’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, and that Mr. Rosenstein helped provide a cover story by writing about the Clinton investigation.
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So McCabe like Comey have FBI/Government documents in their private possession and decide to who and when they turn them over?
B.S.! Call in the US Marshalls for a couple middle of the Night, no knock raids and hold their spouses at gun point while their underwear drawers are rifled thru!
Every department under the Executive should be ordered to allocate/loan 50% of their legal department to the DOJ for as long as it takes to prosecute all of these deep staters... and make sure it doesn’t just stop with a handful... You can’t go back 50 years but lets pick a point in time ,, I like the IRS scandal or the fast and furious scandal for a starting point... and investigate everything.
“Andrew G. McCabe, wrote a confidential memo last spring.”
Kinda like the Susan Rice email to herself?
“The deep state now just throwing crap against the wall.”
You have that right. Comey had already told President Trump that he was not under investigation. Trump wanted the public to know it.
NYT is The Onion of the FakeNewsMSM.
Apuzzo, Goldman and Schmidt - The Three Disinformatzia Agents of the New York Times.
Never trust. You can’t verify lies as being truths.
True. Most are screw offs with exceptions like former military officers and NCO’s, hospital medical Dept. heads, etc.
Whatever to the Times.
Comey and McCabe will forever be two FBI agents who were fired.
President Trump is still President.
Says the guy who got fired for lying.
Comey served at Trumps pleasure. He could fire him for farting in the elevator.
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