Posted on 03/22/2018 10:03:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Wait, What? Andrew McCabe Launched an FBI Investigation Into Attorney General Sessions Because Dems Asked Him To?
It's been less than a week since former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after a recommendation for termination from the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility.
The drama surrounding the lawful and justified firing hasn't stopped since and late Wednesday night, ABC News dropped a bombshell story alleging Sessions was under FBI investigation last year for perjury. The man leading the charge? Andrew McCabe.
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a "lack of candor," McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.
Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.
According to the report , the investigation came after Democrat Senators requested the FBI look into contacts Sessions had with the Russians during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign and the White House transition between November 2016 and January 2017.
According to the sources, McCabe authorized the criminal inquiry after a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote a letter in March 2017 to the FBI urging agents to investigate "all contacts" Sessions may have had with Russians, and "whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred."
Yikes.
As Mollie Hemingway notes over at The Federalist , this story was likely leaked to ABC by team McCabe or McCabe himself in an effort to undermine Sessions in the wake of his firing. That strategy is backfiring and instead bolsters accusations the FBI is highly politicized and allowing Democrat Senators, with whom they agree, to drive criminal investigations.
> Sessions is beyond useless.....he is a traitor.
Please stop this ridiculous hyperventilating.
This has gone beyond politics. It is time for Trump to use the Armed Forces to crush this coup with the Insurrection Acts. Civil war be damned.
Three traitors Session, McConnell, and Ryan are trying to destroy Trump and sure are doing it. These idiots just don’t get it they are destroying themselves.
Why try to remove him? He’s a team player.
Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 1 month, 13 days.
Andrew McCabe, Brennan and Clapper are two bit thugs in the style of what they imagine the old KGB to be like...None of the three believe in our system of government - they believe biggest thug with the most power wins.
Don't get Brennan mad?
Brennan might do to you what was done to Seth Rich? Is that the threat? Secret Police goons will 'rough us up'?
I’ve never understood why Trump plucked Sessions from his comfy Senate seat to have him head up Justice. And it’s equally incomprehensible to me why POTUS has kept him in that job. He’s clearly a puppet of the swamp.
Welcome to the Worlds most powerful Banana Republic!
Every last person involved, including the Media and Hollywood personalities belong in GITMO til they DIE!!!
disfunctional to the maximum, gangstamint which no longer even tries to hide their theft of the people..we are at the edge..babylon is falling
Agree time for them to get to know what dark places feel like.
Amen to that, worth repeating.
Don’t be silly, Sessions has been working this since day one. He’s just competent enough to maintain confidentiality.
“Sleepy has no friggen idea what his FBI is doing. What a useless waste Sessions is.”
They could slap him in the face and he’d just go back to whatever cubicle Mueller/Rosenfeinstein assigned him to and sleep it off.
A TWOFER this afternoon!
If you’re STILL not up to speed on the issue, Trump’s new lawyer, Joe diGenova, eloquently editorially eviscerates the felonious functionaries atop the FBI in the February issue of IMPRIMIS here:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-politicization-of-the-fbi/
diGenova, the former US Attorney for DC, KNOWS where most of the bodies are buried and is a BULLDOG and, like Trump, A STREET FIGHTER! Might want to order more popcorn ‘cause this is gonna get GOOD!
Then, for some comic relief, if you missed Laura Ingraham’s 10 minute video “encounter” with Baltimore’s mayor and come away believing left wingers are capable of dealing with facts and data, this will correct THAT gross misconception.
As I watched, all I could think of is that scene in “Finding Nemo” where delightfully doltish Dory did her little”Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...” routine. The not so delightfully doltish “mayor” diligently deployed the distracting diversionary device developed by the left of “Just keep talking, just keep talking...” in hopes it will wear down the other side. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
And this may sound a bit cruel, but, since it’s authorized in Rule #5 (RIDICULE!) of the left’s “bible” aka “Rules for Radicals” by their hero/guru and Hillary’s “mentor” Saul Alinsky, I have to ask if Spielberg is filming another “Star Wars” bar scene in Baltimore.
Enjoy. I did...right up to when it occurred to me that if the Pubbies “blow” the mid-terms and continue to betray Trump into 2020, creatures like this “mayor” may some day find their way to Washington. God help us!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0o3TAW7zU
It's Rosenstein again!
And Sessions yucks it up with him at diner.
And calls him honorable.
And puts him in charge of things.
And doesn't fire him.
That strategy is backfiring and instead bolsters accusations the FBI is highly politicized and allowing Democrat Senators, with whom they agree, to drive criminal investigations.
also,
House findings re: russia/election
“And calls him honorable. “
Another factoid about Jeff Magoo that makes you go hmmmm...
Jeff voted to confirm Eric Holder as AG in 2009. From the NYT:
“But other Republicans said they would vote for Mr. Holder despite his acknowledged mistakes. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, for example, said he was sure that Mr. Holder would be “a responsible legal officer and not a politician.”
Sessions went to dinner with him, the idiot never knowing that Rosenstein was investigating him. Right after the dinner Rosenstein probably ran outside to “memorialize” the conversation in a memo to himself.
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