Posted on 02/17/2019 12:13:36 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Disgraced former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has provided clear evidence that in 2017 a small cabal of high-level officials inside the Department of Justice (DOJ) weighed whether to attempt to remove the duly-elected president of the United States. McCabe claims that he and others at the top of the FBI and DOJ held multiple discussions about invoking the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to declare President Trump unfit for office and install the vice president in his place.
Is this proof that a rolling bloodless coup really existed within the government? McCabe himself previously provided false information to the DOJ, for which he was unceremoniously fired, rendering any statements he now makes while promoting his book highly suspect. But, given the underpinnings of the entire Russia collusion investigation and what we know now about its early steps, McCabe’s statements ring disturbingly true.
The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides for a way to remove a president who is unable to perform the duties of the office. (This is different from impeachment, the proscribed method to remove a president for misconduct.) The vice president and a majority of cabinet officers must agree, in writing, that the president is unable to discharge the duties of the office. There is no provision for law enforcement — the FBI, lawyers at DOJ, or someone such as Andy McCabe — to force a president from office. Discussions on how, or whether, to attempt to exercise the 25th Amendment in this way is truly indicative of a coup mentality by career bureaucrats.
It is hard to explain this kind of attitude except in the rankest of political contexts. McCabe’s claims that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was part of this coup attempt are shocking. The deputy AG makes innumerable decisions every day that impact a massive number of issues; practically every decision the federal government makes requires his approval if it implicates legal or constitutional issues. That any person in that position would consider wearing a wire to obtain evidence against the sitting president, based upon thin allegations contained in the dossier ex-British spy Christopher Steele produced for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, should frighten every American.
Though McCabe’s veracity is questionable, it does seem unlikely any serious deputy attorney general would joke about such matters.
McCabe claims that he and others believed they were working for a president who might have conspired with Russia to betray this country. There must not be one scintilla of evidence of this; otherwise, special counsel Robert Mueller surely would have taken steps long before now to rid the nation of such a dangerous commander-in-chief. It apparently has not occurred to McCabe that he looks cowardly if he really believed the president was conspiring with a foreign government in a way that compromised his loyalty to this country.
And yet, McCabe blithely went about meeting with the president, continued to do his normal work, and said nothing about it publicly. Is it reasonable to believe a career law officer wouldn’t shout from the rooftops, and even risk his job, to blow the whistle on such a catastrophic potential national security risk? McCabe and his cabal knew that the entire Russia collusion narrative was bought and paid for by the Clinton campaign. We know McCabe knew this from the congressional testimony of former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr, who swore under oath (and he, unlike McCabe, was not fired for lying) that he told McCabe and others at the FBI that the Steele dossier was being pushed by a Trump-hater and should be relied upon with caution.
By May 2017, McCabe implies he was in a state of panic on behalf of the gullible nation led by a Russian asset — but as Ohr said, McCabe and his cronies were aware that the explosive claims in the dossier were unverified. How could there be panic about unverified allegations?
Also by May 2017, the FBI had months and months worth of “FISA take,” or data from the electronic spying on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and all those with whom Page communicated over months, or even years, prior to October 2016 when the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant was signed. According to former FBI director James Comey, none of that data resulted in any verification of the claims in the Steele dossier.
Nonetheless, to these government bureaucrats it was acceptable to lie to the FISA Court by vouching for an unverified dossier. It was acceptable to them to illegally leak to the media the existence of the Russia investigation (for example, leaking the existence of a highly-classified FISA warrant on the Russian ambassador to destroy former national security adviser Michael Flynn and cripple the young presidency). And they apparently thought it acceptable to contemplate the use of the 25th Amendment to remove a president wholly capable of performing his constitutional duties.
That’s a rolling coup, indeed.
Francey Hakes was a prosecutor for 16 years and now consults on national security and the protection of children. As a former assistant U.S. attorney, she appeared before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, presenting applications for counterterrorism and counterespionage warrants on a special detail to the Department of Justice Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. Follow her on Twitter @FranceyHakes.
When George Soros (and whoever is behind him) tell the flying monkeys to get going, they better be screeching and flapping their wings and throwing their crap or the money gets cut off and the secrets come out.
They wilfully and knowingly conspired together to Overthrow the United States Government, the Duly Elected President.
When I was a Kid, we called this TREASON AGAINST THE UNITED STATES of America and the American People.
Bloodless? Seth Rich rises to a point of order...
He caught a bullet to the head because he was the only person that could definitively prove Russia did not hack the DNC. Because he did on behalf of Bernie.
As inflammatory as his comments were have you noticed how this story has pretty much disappeared from the news cycle?
What? Shouldn't that have been "allegedly duly-elected president?"
Otherwise, what is Mueller doing?
-PJ
The Fake News Media really has no choice but to try to keep this quiet, The Fake News Media through their quisling reporters played a big part in it’s fabrication and were in on the TREASONOUS ACTS from the beginning, they should all hang with the rest of them.
“Bloodless.” Not really.
“It was acceptable to them to illegally leak to the media the existence of the Russia investigation (for example, leaking the existence of a highly-classified FISA warrant on the Russian ambassador to destroy former national security adviser Michael Flynn and cripple the young presidency)”
And Pence helps the conspirators by claiming that Flynn lied to him...Was Pence consulted about this 25th Amendment coup attempt? /rhet
The idea that Donald J Trump would let himself be used by anybody, much less the Russians, was preposterous from the beginning. Anyone can see that’s not who this man is.
I think they never believed it - they just hoped they could convince others of it so they could keep up their gravy train that they didn’t want to be put in jail for.
The Clintons had a way of entrapping others in their greed and thus gaining co-conspirators. Our whole deep state is a collusion of greed for money and power.
I suspect his publishers told him to start with a major bombshell because it would make headlines and increase sales.
But I don't believe he thought it through or considered the implications.
Now the Democratic Media Complex is trying to cover his mistake.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Without a doubt. The wikileaks release(podesta’s emails) confirmed what we already knew, the fakestream media were coordinating their stories with the DNC.
As a wise man said years ago, we need Nuremberg-style treason trials and mass hangings on the national mall.
Is this not a form of high treason? If he gets away with it it will happen again and again.
That’s exactly what it is...A massive conspiracy of high treason and there’s no one to bring them to justice.
And before that they willfully and knowingly installed an ineligible usurper.
I volunteer!
Yup. The leftist propaganda media, domestic enemies, the enemy of the people, foisted a marxist muslim America-hating faggot illegal alien enemy combatant on the American people.
They need to be brought to mob justice.
It will be interesting to see if William Barr makes an effort to clean out the DOJ.
Don’t wait for anyone to legally answer for their misdeeds. It’ll never happen. There are many Democrats who could be charged with crimes, including Hillary, but they will never open a can or worms that reaches across the political aisle.
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