McCabe worried PresTrump was a potential national security threat. America should listen to him.....

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Opinion | Frank Figliuzzi: Andrew McCabe worried President Trump was a potential national security threat. America should listen to his warning. https://nbcnews.to/2SLLZu0 - @NBCNewsTHINK

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Andrew McCabe worried Trump was a potential national security threat. America should listen to his warning.



https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/andrew-mccabe-worried-trump-was-potential-national-security-threat-america-ncna972826?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma


FBI agents are trained to identify and mitigate threats. McCabe's new book suggests he had identified just such a potential threat — in the Oval Office.


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Knowing what I know about FBI agents, and knowing what I know about Andrew McCabe, I believe his book was probably painful to write.Pete Marovich / Getty Images file



Feb. 18, 2019, 2:14 PM CST / Updated Feb. 18, 2019, 2:38 PM CST
By Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence and NBC News/MSNBC analyst

Andrew McCabe served as the acting director of the FBI in the three-month aftermath of President Donald Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey. Excerpts from his book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump,” set for release on February 19, provide disturbing new insights into how and why we find ourselves in a full-blown special counsel investigation of our president, his inner circle and their contacts with Russian representatives. Spoiler alert: The book’s title — which compresses the words “threat,” “terror” and “Trump” into one breath — is a clue.

McCabe served America as an FBI special agent for over 20 years, working his way along an arduous career path from organized crime in New York to counterterrorism and high-value detainee interrogations to his eventual appointments as deputy director and then acting director. Among other high-profile cases he worked on, McCabe helped secure the arrest of Ahmed Abu Khattala for suspected involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Many FBI agents have written books filled with war stories or tales espousing the rewards of public service. Yet, few FBI leaders have felt that they had to write a book.

In the interest of full disclosure, I know Andrew McCabe. I served alongside McCabe for a short period at FBI headquarters; he led the counterterrorism division and I headed up counterintelligence. We were colleagues but not friends, in large part because the crushing work hours typically left little time for socializing. But we both sat through countless early morning briefings of then-FBI Director Robert Mueller. During these times I observed McCabe to be quiet, calm, smart and dedicated.


Many FBI agents have written books filled with war stories or tales espousing the rewards of public service. Yet, few FBI leaders have felt that they had to write a book. McCabe is writing a book for the same reasons that James Comey seems to have written a book; because he feels he must tell his side of the story and counter the withering barrage of taunting he and his family has endured from our bully of a president. "Yet now the rule of law is under attack, including from the President himself,” he writes..............................

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1. Never forget,it will be the

Agencies that Trump attacked,that will take him down. This is all a the Exposure of some Rogue FBI Agents in the New York field office along with Guillani,and a couple Lawyers working for Trump,pumping false statements about Hillary and the E-mails. This then caused Comey to reopen his so called investigation which lead to the bogus Friday night memo which did the Hillary Campaign in.

All about creating a diversion from the real truth.