The standard reaction of the crooked cop. How dare you question my integrity. "You can't handle the truth" etc.
"The fact that [Trump] has said all these things about me, he's made all these attacks, he's gone on and on -- you can't dismiss it, that's the problem," McCabe told POLITICO in an interview earlier this month. "That's why presidents don't typically attack senior executives in the FBI, because they would never even want to create the impression that that sort of improper influence could be taking place."
-- Hopefully by the end of the month this will be a footnote. --
This event has kicked up more excitement than firing Comey did. Wait 'til things start poppin', man oh man. I don;t know if the tension build-up is by design, or if it's the natural progression, but the amount of tension keeps going up up up.
Laying the evidentiary groundwork and going by the book will be seen as darned important. I still go back to Rosenstein's "fire Comey" letter. Well done, and IMO, historic. That marked the formal start - the papers that will be studied 20 years from now.