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Andrew McCabe Couldn't Believe the Things Trump Said About Putin
The former deputy director of the FBI explains why the bureau felt obligated to investigate the presidentand how the Mueller probe might end.
In the months before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, FBI counterintelligence agents investigating Russian election interference were also collecting evidence suggesting that Trump could be compromised by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who oversaw the bureaus Russia investigation, told me in an interview conducted late last week that concerns about Trump had been building for some timeand that he was convinced the FBI would have been justified in opening a case against the president.
We felt like we had credible, articulable facts to indicate that a threat to national security may exist, McCabe told me. And FBI officials felt this way, he said, even before Trump fired Comey. That firing set off a chain of events that, as McCabe put it, turned the world upside down. McCabe wrote contemporaneous memos describing key conversations he had during that chaotic periodwith the president, with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and othersthat are now in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
McCabes new book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, is not generally overstated in its approach to Trump. This reflects either an aversion to exaggeration on McCabes parthis self-image, it seems, is that of a just-the-facts-maam G-manor an awareness that the Justice Departments inspector general has, for all intents and purposes, branded him a fabulist, a charge he finds particularly wounding. McCabe, who was fired in March 2018, told me hell be filing a lawsuit against the Justice Department that will challenge the circumstances of his termination, which was ostensibly based on the inspector generals findings that he had leaked information to the media without permission. In person, McCabe still seems awed by the series of head-scratching, completely shocking events that he witnessed two years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/mccabe-warns-trump-mueller-undeterred/583000/
In the months before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, FBI counterintelligence agents investigating Russian election interference were also collecting evidence suggesting that Trump could be compromised by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director who oversaw the bureaus Russia investigation, told me in an interview conducted late last week that concerns about Trump had been building for some timeand that he was convinced the FBI would have been justified in opening a case against the president.
We felt like we had credible, articulable facts to indicate that a threat to national security may exist, McCabe told me. And FBI officials felt this way, he said, even before Trump fired Comey. That firing set off a chain of events that, as McCabe put it, turned the world upside down. McCabe wrote contemporaneous memos describing key conversations he had during that chaotic periodwith the president, with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and othersthat are now in the hands of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
McCabes new book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, is not generally overstated in its approach to Trump. This reflects either an aversion to exaggeration on McCabes parthis self-image, it seems, is that of a just-the-facts-maam G-manor an awareness that the Justice Departments inspector general has, for all intents and purposes, branded him a fabulist, a charge he finds particularly wounding. McCabe, who was fired in March 2018, told me hell be filing a lawsuit against the Justice Department that will challenge the circumstances of his termination, which was ostensibly based on the inspector generals findings that he had leaked information to the media without permission. In person, McCabe still seems awed by the series of head-scratching, completely shocking events that he witnessed two years ago.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/mccabe-warns-trump-mueller-undeterred/583000/
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Andrew McCabe Couldn't Believe the Things Trump Said About Putin (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2019
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dalton99a
(81,073 posts)1. McCabe was probably thinking: "Why is this guy not in prison?"
An actual enemy agent, collaborator, saboteur
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)2. what we used to call, a "Commie Red".
I wonder if Joe McCarthy is turning over in his grave.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)3. We saw it on public display at Helsinki
It sucks how the press let him out of the box on that one. Maybe this can reignite it. Who knows maybe Kelly will be willing to candidly answer questions (doubtful for that liar).