Posted on 02/14/2019 6:08:52 AM PST by BurgessKoch
Soon after speaking to President Trump about the firing of his boss James Comey, Andrew McCabe, who became the bureau's acting director, began obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president and his ties to Russia. In his first television interview since his own firing, McCabe tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley he wanted those inquiries to be documented and underway so they would be difficult to quash without raising scrutiny.
"I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion," McCabe tells Pelley in the interview. "That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace."
The interview with the veteran FBI agent who rose to acting director of the bureau will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.
"I wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision," McCabe said.
The White House responded to the opening of that investigation, calling it a "completely baseless investigation."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Corrupt and Dishonorable FBI/DOJ bump for later.....
You can see now, how during the first six months of his presidency, Trump had no allies...none. Graham, McConnell, Ryan etc they all threatened him if he tried to fire Sessions, or impede the special counsel.
Here’s a guy who handed them victories, and in return they lamblast and under cut him.
Oh yeah, finally after they can see that he is indeed a “good guy” they back him. What a year or so later?
He, single handedly wins the senate for them in 2018 with tireless campaigning.
They throw this POS of crap bill on his desk.
I can tell, half of him wants to chuck the whole damn thing, the other half, says let’s sign and move on, and I’ll get my wall the other way.
We have no idea what Romney and company are planning.
I hate to say this, but at this point...Mr. President...Sign the damn bill and let’s move on.
Start holding rallies in bigger and bigger venues like Billy Graham. 40,000, 50,000 and more. In places where they love you. Keep the protestors across the street.
I’m so disgusted I can talk today.
With what all were learning (in theory) thus far I dunno how any other "type" could rise.
What would really be amazing is someone straight up getting to this position.
Sorry state of affairs..
Nobody, but the studied few around here, knows the intricacies of the FISA warrants, or the detailed conspiracy testimonies - all the critical stuff was behind closed doors.
The coup gets major media and we get another tweet.
Crap in one hand and tweet in the other and see which one fills up first.
He wants to go on record for all the good liberals that he did his part and if Mueller comes up with nothing that it is not his (McCabe) fault.
Cover for the Clintons. I wonder if they were all given pardons from Hussein?
“by the book.”
She probably meant to add “now”. to that comment.
Notice how all the traitors are quiet these days: Clinton, Ohola, Rice, Lynch et al. The only one saying anything of note is that Shi@ for Brains house intel committee chairman. Of course he is immune from any blow back for two years at least.
My blood is boiling thinking of how much good could have been done over the past two years rather than all the good that was done in spite of the head winds from the losers and their comsympathiers RINOs like rat face Ryan.
One of the regularly scheduled meetings with the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and some of their staff came two days later, on Friday, May 12. After the meeting, I asked the deputy, Rod Rosenstein, if he could stay behind. In part I wanted to talk with him about ground rules governing the separate investigations of the Russia case by the FBI and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Rosenstein had oversight because the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, had had to recuse himself owing to his own interactions with Russians during the campaign. But my main message was this: I need you to protect the process.
After speaking to these points, Rod shifted his gaze. His eyes were focused on a point in space a few yards beyond and behind, toward the door. He started talking about the firing of Jim Comey. He was obviously upset. He said he was shocked that the White House was making it look as if Jim’s firing had been his idea. He was grasping for a way to describe the nature of his situation. One remark stands out. He said, There’s no one that I can talk to about this. There’s no one here that I can trust.
He asked for my thoughts about whether we needed a special counsel to oversee the Russia case. I said I thought it would help the investigation’s credibility. Later that day, I went to see Rosenstein again. This is the gist of what I said: I feel strongly that the investigation would be best served by having a special counsel. I’ve been thinking about the Clinton email case and how we got twisted in knots over how to announce a result that did not include bringing charges against anyone. Had we appointed a special counsel in the Clinton case, we might not be in the present situation. Unless or until you make the decision to appoint a special counsel, the FBI will be subjected to withering criticism that could destroy the credibility of both the Justice Department and the FBI.
Rosenstein was very engaged. He was not yet convinced. I brought the matter up with him again after the weekend. On Wednesday, we would be briefing the Hill. As I saw it, by informing Congress of the bureau’s actions, we would be drawing an indelible line around the cases we had opened—the four cases known publicly and any others that may have gone forward. The four known publicly were those of Carter Page, a foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign and a man with many Russian ties; George Papadopoulos, another foreign-policy adviser, who had told a foreign diplomat that the Russians had offered to help Trump’s campaign by providing information on Hillary Clinton; Michael Flynn, for a brief period the president’s national security adviser, who had pursued multiple high-level contacts with the Russian government; and Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, who had shady business dealings with Ukrainians and Russians.
On the afternoon of May 17, Rosenstein and I sat at the end of a long conference table in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol. We were there to brief the so-called Gang of Eight—the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate and the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Rosenstein had, I knew, made a decision to appoint a special counsel in the Russia case. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic senator from New York, was to our right. Mitch McConnell, the Republican senator from Kentucky and the Senate majority leader, was to our left. The mood in the room was sober. After reminding the committee of how the investigation began, I told them of additional steps we had taken. Then Rod took over and announced that he had appointed a special counsel to pursue the Russia investigation, and that the special counsel was Robert Mueller. The Gang of Eight had questions. What was the scope of the inquiry? Who would oversee the special counsel? How could the special counsel get fired? Rod answered every question. Then it was over.
When I came out of the Capitol, it felt like crossing a finish line. If I got nothing else done as acting director, I had done the one thing I needed to do.
And who ordered McCabe? And who ordered the one who ordered McCabe? NO WAY McCabe did this all on his own. No way!
I am sure we’re all coming away from this with changed attitudes about what goes on in DC. I don’t believe one of them and especially after the new crop of idiotic women they seated in Congress...
I’ve read so many of the new books out and any politician paying attention and taking the trouble to read them would come to the same conclusion but they prefer to appear on TV spouting the same old tired mantra.
I’m near the end of Greg Jarrett’s book (The Russia Hoax) and it’s splendid. If they read nothing but his book, they’d have a refresher course for their law degrees and a good start on one for the rest of us. They are STILL hoping for EVIDENCE - ANY evidence to prove this hasn’t been a witch hunt. Garamendi (D-CA) was just on FOX and the man doesn’t have a clue - still spouting “collusion”.. That’s a word that Greg Jarrett explained the meaning of in his book and even a nitwit would get it - not a democrat tho’ AND he put it in quotes each time he used it.
We really do have the wrong people in charge!
yes
solid ground?? Haa Haaa Haaa Haaa.. Dude!!!
Oscar Time?
Best ‘Stephen King-like’ Dossier - the ‘Elect Hillary’ Campaign blueprint
ScreenPlay Credits - Edgar Allen Poe (famed author of ‘Never More, Trump!’)
Best Supporting Actor - Arec Baldwin
Best Supporting Actress - Kathy Gryffyn
Best Actress - Joy Behar
Best Actor - George Steppedonmytongueagain
Best Movie - Uranium One - The Empire Mobilizes
Best Director - Rod Rosenstein
Lifetime Achievement Award (Shared) - Bob ‘I got nothin’’ Mueller and James ‘Free Hillary’ Comey
Cameos by Jeff Sessions, Rosie, Shepp, and many more media mutts..
Close, very close.
It’s the willingness to get dirty.
All the way up to engaging a failed coup.
And then strutting around the chumployment line
With a willing publisher (St martins) giving you a 7 figure advance.
Traitor...
Of course, the whole thing goes right up to 0bama and hitlery.
But we have to see military tribunals and executions at least of the DOJ and FBI players. As much as I hate to say this, any real justice (executions) for hitlery or 0bama could only come in the context of national state of emergency.
I guess us hearing from McCabe means he is not enjoying a stay at Gitmo. He should have been moved into housing by now.
Exactly.
“The “troublesome issue” is that the GOP is just fine with this Democrat criminality.”
I agree along with a whole lot of never Trumpers. Too many in the GOP were just fine with this. President Trump was/is upsetting their apple cart.
I doubt Barr will do anything, I would have preferred the current AG, he would have cracked heads.
MAY 9, 2017 : (COMEY IS FIRED)
MAY 12, 2017 …says McCabe.
MAY 2017 : (SR FBI LEADERSHIP CONCOCTS BS STORYLINE THAT TRUMP WAS DIRECTED BY RUSSIA TO FIRE COMEY [WHO DIDN’T WANT TO FIRE COMEY?]-— See JAMES BAKER) A House Republican’s line of questioning uncovered revelations that in May 2017 senior FBI leadership debated whether President Trump was directed by the Russian government to fire FBI Director James Comey, Fox News has learned.
Contacted by Fox, U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, confirmed his questions to former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker uncovered the claims, some of which were first reported Friday by the New York Times.
Ratcliffe called the Baker transcript leak “selective,” adding that the full transcript of the Oct. 18 interview, which is undergoing a classification review by the FBI and the Justice Department, reveals “that in May 2017, political bias infected senior FBI leadership, and emotion — not evidence — drove their decision making.”
A separate source said Baker told investigators the internal FBI debate over the president’s decision to fire Comey on May 9, 2017, included personnel who have since left the bureau for cause, retired, or have been demoted.(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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It is also significant because the investigation had run for 10 months and included a surveillance warrant on a trump campaign aide.
These comments about surveillance warrants should always mention that FISA warrants are two-jump-spying warrants. The person in the warrant can be surveilled, past, present and future as well as every person that person communicated with as well as every person that first layer communicated with.
It probably means that every person in the Trump campaign was surveilled using the full power and money of the federal government. PDJT must be the most honest businessman ever since they have found nothing on him. This entire FBI/DOJ witch hunt is Stalinist.
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