FYI: FBI deputy director Andy McCabe, who arrived at House Intel at 2pm, still behind closed doors

[MelissaB]

Last edited Tue Dec 19, 2017, 11:07 PM - Edit history (1)

FBI deputy director Andy McCabe, who arrived at House Intel at 2pm, still behind closed doors with committee

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Edited to say he's out now after 8 hours.

"After eight hours at House Intel, Andy McCabe leaves the committee, avoids the cameras and declines to answer questions"

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[Horizens]

1. Why?

Under what pretense to the R's want to deep six this guy?

[MelissaB]

5. Grassley certainly wants him out.

[Leghorn21]

11. To wit: Bloomberg News, yesterday:

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“He oughta be replaced. And I’ve said that before and I’ve said it to people who can do it,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, told reporters the day before McCabe went before the House panel.

Grassley has questioned whether McCabe has a conflict of interest and is biased against President Donald Trump. McCabe’s wife in 2015 ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia, backed in part with money from associates of Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent in last year’s presidential election.

Such concerns with McCabe have increased among Republicans with the recent release of text messages that many Republicans claimed showed anti-Trump bias by agent Peter Strzok, who was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Russians to help get him elected.

The president has complained on Twitter that his Attorney General Jeff Sessions should have fired McCabe a long time ago.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/grassley-wants-fbi-director-wray-to-replace-mccabe-as-deputy

[C_U_L8R]

12. Loyalty to Trump???

So Grassley wants an FBI Director who'll be loyal to a criminal suspect (over the Constitution).
Oh just fuck right off, Chuck.

[ProudLib72]

15. So he's spent the day working up the stomach to kiss the Don's ring?

How nauseating!

I can see Grassley telling him, "We've all done it. You should just do it and get it over with."

[Nevernose]

18. Grassleys a senator

This is a House committee. So why wouldn’t this because eithe A) a Representative wanted him gone or B ) taken up in the Senate’s investigation?

(Not attacking. Just hard to keep up with the insanity)

[Kirk Lover]

10. His wife is a.....is a .....is a....it just can't get any worse...a Dem. Right isn't

that what they are trying to use against him? Let me keep reading this thread because I know if I don't know it ...y'all do.

[rzemanfl]

13. Hey Lawn Gilander.

[Kirk Lover]

14. Howdy Flo rider.

[rzemanfl]

16. Took a minute to get that one. n/t

[Kirk Lover]

20. Took me a minute to figure out how I wanted to type it. n/t

[Leghorn21]

2. Thank you, Melissa!! Have been waiting all afternoon for word on McCabe -

Many sincere thanks for posting!!!

[MelissaB]

3. I have, too.

And, you're welcome.

What the heck in going on in that room?

[Leghorn21]

6. Hmmm, well, just found this from The Hill

Several hours into an interview with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Tuesday threw cold water on his own speculation that McCabe’s days at the bureau might be short-lived.

In an interview last week, Gowdy told Fox News he would be “a little bit surprised if [McCabe’s] still an employee of the FBI this time next week” — setting off a firestorm of speculation that his firing might be imminent.

As late as Tuesday morning, Gowdy told reporters that "it's not 2 o'clock yet" and "I hope he's there at 2" when asked if he believed McCabe should remain at the FBI. His remark appeared to suggest that McCabe could be on his way out before his scheduled interview.

But Gowdy told The Hill his remarks were based on nothing more than McCabe’s request to reschedule an interview that had been set for last week. In the past, he said, such circumstances have resulted in barriers to witness testimony.

Why do I pay attention to these cretins when they speak?! WHY??

Link: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/365678-gowdy-walks-back-hints-that-fbi-deputy-could-be-on-the-way-out

[kentuck]

4. Probably Pinhead Gowdy is keeping him occupied.

He said that he would be surprised if McCabe was in his job next week?

[MelissaB]

9. Gowdy...

I'd be happy to never have to hear that name again.

[Sanity Claws]

7. Is he testifying?

I guess it is not a big Christmas party.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Right, they invited Mueller too and are all drinking spiked eggnog, yukking it up.

[Amaryllis]

17. ARe the Dems there or were they shut out?

[MelissaB]

19. And... He's out now after 8 hours.

After eight hours at House Intel, Andy McCabe leaves the committee, avoids the cameras and declines to answer questions

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[old guy]

21. House Intelligence Committee.

An oxymoron if there ever was.