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.
What? That says a lot about Mr. sessions.
Bump!
Speaks volumes after everything Janet Sterno and Eric Holder did under the Clinton regime.
Or Mark Levin.
The worm turns
Slowly
It proves the FBI is corrupt, thanks McCabe for providing the evidence.
Whoever thought we would have Secret Police -like what you find in corrupt third world dictatorships-operating in the United States of America?
Sad.
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McCabe is nothing but a DNC ‘Droid!
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>> “Whoever thought we would have Secret Police -like what you find in corrupt third world dictatorships-operating in the United States of America?” <<
Answer: The John Birch Society, back in 1958.
And Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was maligned by the controlled media for simply speaking the pure unadorned truth about people at high levels of government. (But later verified in the ‘90s when the Kremlin archives were opened)
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Sessions is deeply a Statist to the cors of his marrow.
He firmly believes in an Imperial Bureaucracy and active defense of same.
Astounding - apparently all you have to do is get some senator to make a complaint to the FBI and you can have your political opponent “investigated” for any absurd fantasy reason - if you’re a Democrat.....
Reince Prebus- probably went something like this, pick Sessions otherwise you won’t get the backing of Ryan and McConnell in Congress for anything. I really do think Trump was set up from the beginning starting with Sessions.
Repubs and Dems have ensured there are so many foxes in the hen house to ensure Trump goes down one way or another. Mueller or failing to pass what he ran on.
Trump has been threatened if he fires Mueller or Sessions they will impeach- this coming from Repubs as well as Dems.
“Reince Prebus- probably went something like this, pick Sessions otherwise you won’t get the backing of Ryan and McConnell in Congress for anything. I really do think Trump was set up from the beginning starting with Sessions.”
I agree.
Trump is deferring to Congress because of the midterms. He’s not on the ballot. I believe after the midterms the gloves will come off.
Not that this matters, but was this legal?
>>Democrats are still running this country. Elections be damned.<<
Yes they are, with the willing assistance of the RINOs, especially Ryan and McConnell. And they will continue to run the country as long as their criminal and treasonous activities are shielded by their ministry of propaganda, i.e., the mainstream media. The only way this cabal of criminals can be eliminated is by the indictment of literally hundreds of them who are currently operating in all three branches of government.
>>Worse than Watergate.<<
What is happening now poses an existential threat to our country, something Watergate never even came close to doing.
>>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.<<
I feel sure most people in this country, including most on this forum, would vehemently oppose your thinking, but I am not one of them, because in my view the leftist criminals now subverting our government are more of an existential threat to the country than are any of our foreign enemies.
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