Posted on 02/19/2019 7:01:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Coziness between President Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes, then-chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, led Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to want him barred from sensitive meetings with lawmakers about counterintelligence activities — to no avail.
The pair was surprised to see Nunes, R-Calif., present at a meeting for FBI officials to brief the so-called "Gang of Eight" — leaders of both parties in the House and Senate, as well as the chairs and co-chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees. McCabe and Rosenstein planned to tell lawmakers the bureau had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump after he fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017.
That's according to McCabe's book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, recounting his short but tumultuous tenure leading the FBI after Comey's ouster. McCabe himself was later fired, in March 2018, over his leaks to the media.
Nunes had said he was effectively recusing himself from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election due to suspicions of improper information flow between the Trump White House and the congressman.
"Nunes was suspected of having surreptitiously been given intelligence by presidential aides during a nighttime rendezvous at the House, information that was then publicized," McCabe writes. "Look who's here, I said to Rod. Rosenstein understood. He went to talk to Nunes, pulled him aside. Came back, told me, Nunes is staying, he says he's not recused from this, he refuses to leave."
And it worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Nunes was the only one looking for the truth.
Nunes was the only one of the Go8 who wasn’t Anti-Trump
Yet another reminder that McCabe and his ilk are total POS.
What's next?
Attack of the twits. That’s what we’ve been dealing with.
These guys are not playing with a full deck. Let’s not brief any Congressmen who like Trump cause .... yeah whatever.
So this whole “gang of 8” knew about this fiasco.
Sounds like McCabe is gonna bring down the whole house of cards with him... I gotta go buy more popcorn.
McCabe can say anything he wants because they are not allowed to divulge anything.
What they are is seditious lying bastards, who should be placed on trial for TREASON - and, upon conviction if found guilty, should be summarily shot by firing squad ... Or better still, publicly hung by the neck until dead.
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what utter scumbags. Traitors. Vermin. I can’t think more about it without saying something that will get me banned.
Of course they do. He’s not one of them. Cowards.
mcconnel, ryan and burr all knew what was going on and knew it was baseless from the get go. These slime bags have made a career out of saying one thing while doing the exact opposite behind the scenes. I don’t know where Nunes is in all of this, but if it turns out he know about it and did not expose it, he is no better then the rest. As for the dems, this is who they are so I’d expect it from them.
I like what your thinking. I’m gonna keep an eye on you.
I wonder if McCabe discussing the matter that was briefed to the gang of eight is itself a breech of confidential/secret material. It would seem to me that the whole purpose of the gang of eight and being briefed by FBI/DOJ/NSA is so that the information be kept confidential because just the knowledge of an ongoing investigation is allowing the target to start hiding evidence or circumvent surveillance.
...left hanging on the WDC mall for the maggots and birds to clean their bones.
We don’t need advice from traitors.
Accidubg to the IG, mcscab lied under oath. If he’d do that then nothing he says in PR conversation can be trusted.
He’s a waste of time - only selling his book.
So far on the possible hero list we have Devin Nunes and Mike Rogers of NSA for blowing the lid off of the Obama Administration FISA court abuse, and alerting incoming president Trump that he was being bugged.
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