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McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump
CBS News ^ | February 14, 2019 | Scott Pelley

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
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To: pacificus
would also make Manafort and Stone false arrests, right to freedom from unwarranted search and seizure.

the fact that a Grand Jury was called up under false pretenses makes it a double crime

121 posted on 02/14/2019 11:23:19 AM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: pacificus

We don’t have enough prison beds for all those wrapped up in this.


122 posted on 02/14/2019 12:52:38 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: BurgessKoch

I say give the POS a fair trial, and then put him in front of a firing squad.


123 posted on 02/14/2019 6:07:26 PM PST by onemiddleamerican
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To: marajade; Williams; BurgessKoch
Sounds to me more like a confession than anything else.

Trump might have considered Christie for AG instead of Sessions

A 5-PM interview on The Howie Carr Show had former DoJ Atty DiGenova saying this WAS a confession.

With his big book "advance", retention of his pension, and his wife's ill-gotten cash, he has done pretty well for a crook.

124 posted on 02/14/2019 7:33:48 PM PST by Does so (Build the Cpl Ronil Singh Memorial Wall...A Legal Immigrant...)
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To: Lagmeister
More like he is setting a platform to run for president. He certainly has no fears of prosecution and with full media support and a guaranteed 48% of the the legal vote... who knows. Jam thousands more illegals to vote into the swing states and we can welcome president McCabe.

Put down the bottle, ok?

125 posted on 02/14/2019 11:33:41 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Truth29
McCabe needs to die slowly and horribly preferably of some disease for which there are no pain killers.

Lock him in a cell with the Hildebeast?

126 posted on 02/14/2019 11:35:30 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
I didn't use a sarc sign because I truly think he believes the public will back him. His type of pathological altruism is self justification to think he can do what ever he wants because most people, in his mind, think like he does.

If you think that one has to drink in order to think folks like McCabe can think that way... well, okay I guess.

127 posted on 02/15/2019 5:27:59 AM PST by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: MHGinTN
"There was NEVER a crime upon which FISA apps could ride." "The entire treason was begun as a political search and destroy."

True it is... That boy needs to be in the slammer.!
To bad we don't have a real "Department Of Justice" anymore...

128 posted on 02/15/2019 5:39:19 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Lagmeister

It sounded like you were waving the pom-poms in an orgy of defeatist glee.


129 posted on 02/15/2019 6:39:33 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: marajade

Macabe is drawing his pension, just not as much as he would have had prior to his being fired.


130 posted on 02/15/2019 7:22:06 AM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: BurgessKoch

131 posted on 02/15/2019 1:39:20 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: BurgessKoch

I watched a few minutes of the interview and “thought” I saw a little fear in the man’s face.

I hope so because he definitely is a liar. The Dems engineered a 700k bribe to his wife to shut him up!

And, a guy named Seth Rich was murdered. I’d be scared too.


132 posted on 02/16/2019 3:03:57 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: BurgessKoch

Last week,after news of McCabe’s crimes were publicized,Joe DiGenova was on a local Boston talk show and told the host,Howie Carr,that McCabe,Comey and others will eventually be measured for orange jumpsuits.


133 posted on 02/17/2019 5:10:32 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Truth29
McCabe needs to die slowly and horribly preferably of some disease for which there are no pain killers.

Like lead poisoning

134 posted on 02/17/2019 7:08:37 PM PST by atc23
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To: BurgessKoch

yeah he completely made up ALL the russian crap to cya...


135 posted on 02/17/2019 7:11:14 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: BurgessKoch

I can see if one is planning a possible coup thatyou’d b very much against waterboarding.

In 2009, [McCabe] served as the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a program to research interrogation techniques that was created after the Department of Defense Directive 2310 ban of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques.-—wikidipia


136 posted on 02/19/2019 5:28:08 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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