Posted on 02/19/2019 8:54:45 AM PST by jazusamo
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday that none of the top eight congressional leaders objected when he briefed them in 2017 on the bureau's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump.
"The purpose of the briefing was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we’d been doing," McCabe, who was the acting FBI director at the time, said during an interview on NBC's "Today" show.
McCabe acknowledged that he ordered the investigation, but pushed back against suggestions that he'd acted alone in doing so. He said that he consulted with his team, reviewed it with bureau lawyers and discussed it with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein before moving forward.
"And I told Congress what we had done," he said.
"No one objected," he added in the interview. "Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds and not based on the facts."
The New York Times first reported last month that the FBI launched an inquiry into whether Trump was working for Russia after the president fired former bureau chief James Comey. McCabe took over as acting director after Comey's ouster.
The "Gang of Eight" consists of the top two leaders from each party in each chamber of Congress. Representatives around the time of the 2017 meeting would have included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), then-Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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Point two: We may presume McCabe deceived these 'gang of eight' fools, since the FISA warrants were ALL issued under false predicate.
McCain is dead.
Graham is turned to supporting Trump.
This crime extends across party lines. It is about The Swamp People and those who still represent US.
Expose em all, no matter who is hurt.
Like the Honeymooners’ Ralph Kramden saying “one of these days, one of these days!” when are we going to reach our limits?
A group deciding to take away our lawfully and duly elected sitting US President Trump.
The group with Comey and McCabe and Clapper is not in the Congress which has jursidiction over impeachable offenses alleged. NOT the FBI,CIA or NSA.
Just a few guys chdwing the fat and discussing the destruction of our constitutional method of electing a president-——
because these guys don’t like him!
A lot of us would have wanted a replacement during 8 full years of Obama as he ruthlessly attacked law enforcement (the Kill the Pigs group leaders to the White House more than once), undercut our sovereignty via the UN, allowed millions of illegals to be sent all over the country and other crimes. (Why “crimes” because he violated his sworn duty to protect us from invasion and to follow the Constitution.)
But we just allowed him to lead for 8 full years, working within the system to have our turn to try to elect a nexw leader later. How quaint and corny we must have sounded!
I agree, it was strictly about Trump.
Yep, Them too.
If this is true, did those “geniuses” ask if the FBI hoodlums had ANY EVIDENCE?
I didn’t think so.
No, they knew Trump was an outsider and not beholden to any of them.
They saw this as their “ Pontius Pilate” way of washing their hands of the “ crucifixion” of all things Trump.
Yep; no better time than the present to drain the swamp.
Well; yesterday (last year, etc.) would have been better but we work with what we have I guess.
When were they informed? Was it after the investigation had already begun? This would be more like asking for forgiveness rather than permission.
What evidence was presented to them? The dossier? Other false and speculative information? If the case was presented with phony intelligence, it would seem as though the "Gang of Eight" would not have been able to make a fully informed decision, and this was only given to them as a way of providing cover to the actual plot.
Excellent comment.
Ummm...didn't that "counterintelligence investigation" begin at the end of July 2016? "Crossfire Hurricane"? (See the POS NYT Article at: Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation)
So they started this piece of crap counterintelligence investigation so they could do it all in the background without any prying eyes, and then delayed telling the Gang of Eight about it for months (supposed to inform quarterly), finally doing it on May 17, 2017?????????????
So, it was a fait accompli?????????
MCCABE: "Yeah, we have been doing this investigation on Trump since August 2016, about three months before the election, but...didn't think you needed to know about it yet. It was very sensitive."
(NON-DEEP STATE/DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF GANG OF EIGHT: "TOO SENSITIVE????? WTF? ISN'T THAT THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOUR MANDATED BREIFINGS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN QUARTERLY?????"
“They saw this as their “ Pontius Pilate” way of washing their hands of the “ crucifixion” of all things Trump.”
Agree. And they knew how absolutely nasty and underhanded the DOJ and FBI swamp creatures can be.
If true, they’re complicit in the attempted coup.
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Exactly.
These four, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell & Ryan are pure human scum & vermin...but, the real culprits are none other then, Hillary Clinton & Ex-POTUS, Traitor/Turncoat, Barack Hussein Obama. Case closed, end of story!!!
The truth hurts, sometines, but, the truth is still always the truth.
McCabe may be setting up for immunity when the SHTF!
Why object, if you know there’s nothing to be found? Let ‘em probe.
Trump needs to keep Mitch “The B!tch” close and hang Ryan. Then once the smoke clears, hang Mitch!
See my post above. The investigation (Idiot leftists called it “Crossfire Hurricane” started late June/early July 2016 about three months prior to the election. Then they weren’t notified about the investigation until May 2017.
Michael Bennet, D-CO
Dick Durbin, D-IL
Jeff Flake, R-AZ
Lindsey Graham, R-SC
John McCain, R-AZ
Robert Menendez, D-NJ
Marco Rubio, R-FL
Chuck Schumer, D-NY
Two years ago Linda Graham was a Never-Trumper, and McCain, Flake and Rubio always hated him, so this makes more sense than McConnell - who is too big a coward to get onboard with a removal conspiracy.
12/02/2016
Graham and other Gang of Eight members — Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, and Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet — crafted immigration legislation in 2013 that passed the Senate but was never taken up for a vote in the House.
We’re going to need a much larger sludge pump to even touch it.
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