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New Book: McCabe Initiated White House Meeting That Led To Leak
The Federalist ^ | 1/29/2018 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 01/29/2018 7:54:16 AM PST by Steven W.

The FBI’s top brass initiated conversations with a White House official that were quickly leaked to CNN, according to a new book.

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe asked to speak privately with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus following a February 2017 intelligence briefing. The scene is described in “Media Madness,” Howard Kurtz’s new book on the press and its relationship with the Trump administration. McCabe said he asked for the meeting to tell Priebus that “everything” in a New York Times story ... was “bullsh-t.”
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McCabe claimed to want Priebus to know the FBI’s perspective that this story was not true. Priebus pointed to the televisions that were going non-stop on the story. He asked if the FBI could say publicly what he had just told him. McCabe said he’d have to check, according to the book.

McCabe reportedly called back and said he couldn’t do anything about it. Then-FBI director James Comey reportedly called later and also said he couldn’t do anything, but did offer to brief the Senate Intelligence Committee on the matter later that week, suggesting they’d spill the beans publicly. You’ll never guess what happened next, according to the book:

Now, a week later, CNN was airing a breaking news story naming Priebus. According to ‘multiple U.S. officials,’ the network said, ‘the FBI rejected a White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to U.S. intelligence.’
Priebus was stunned by the implication that he was pressuring law enforcement. Had he been set up? Why was the FBI leaking this information when one of its top officials had initiated the conversation?



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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Steven W.

...and we haven’t even gotten to Clapper, Brennan, Rice, and many others - YET.


21 posted on 01/29/2018 8:36:15 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: JustTheTruth

McCabe is as dirty as Comey, Meuller, Stroczk, Page, etc.
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McCabe is the dirtiest of all...

btw...Comey had a meeting with Trump and brought up the dossier...next thing you know it was leaked to the press and the dossier was in the mainstream


22 posted on 01/29/2018 8:46:07 AM PST by SPRINK
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To: Travis McGee
Thanks, an old dumb guy needs help with your lower right box re the left in an all out civil war.

Is the FBI the answer?

23 posted on 01/29/2018 8:48:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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To: Steven W.

McCabe covered Hillary’s bedding of a little girl
to murder the US Ambassador in Benghazi,
all that so McCabe’s and Mueller’s real BOSSES (al Qaeda)
could receive their 20,000 MANPADs.


24 posted on 01/29/2018 8:56:05 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: Steven W.

Sounds like McCabe.... he and Comey are admitted leakers and liars


25 posted on 01/29/2018 8:57:39 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: gibsonguy

You do realize that they left Andy in his job so they could build the strongest possible case against him through wiretaps and surveillance?


26 posted on 01/29/2018 9:00:26 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: JustTheTruth

I find myself believing that new FBI Director Wray is
part of the “etc” in your post.


27 posted on 01/29/2018 9:03:35 AM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: gibsonguy

Let Wray quit, then. Anybody with that attitude is worthless. He wasn’t well vetted, I believe.


28 posted on 01/29/2018 9:04:25 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: mojito
Nice, the FBI is initiating fraudulent sting operations inside the WH.

The FBI doesn't work for the American people OR the country.

FBI goons work for the benefit of corrupt liberal "elites".

They're dirty... Period.

Agents also targeted American citizens based on political beliefs. Lois Lerner's a piker compared to FBI thugs. There's much more to come...

29 posted on 01/29/2018 9:18:03 AM PST by GOPJ (Republicans care about Americans. Democrats care about illegals, corrupt elites, and criminals.)
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To: FirstFlaBn

Mollie is one of very few media types that I trust. Not only that, she writes very well - explaining complex matters in a smooth narrative.

Agree and she’s pretty too..........;)


30 posted on 01/29/2018 9:51:35 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Travis McGee

I guess you can ‘X’ out McCabe now...


31 posted on 01/29/2018 9:55:06 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: DesertRhino

The FBI needs to be abolished. It has a decades long track record of illegal acts. It is a creation of the Woodrow Wilson progressive era thinking.

It must go.

It should have been gone long ago before J. Edna got his false nails into it.


33 posted on 01/29/2018 9:58:12 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Grampa Dave
"Thanks, an old dumb guy needs help with your lower right box re the left in an all out civil war."

That got me at first also.

I thought it referred to the political "left" but it means the five groups to the left of the question box in the graphic.

The answer is the militia.

34 posted on 01/29/2018 10:00:04 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: TTFlyer

He could have tweeted it, put it on FB, appeared on Hannity.....


35 posted on 01/29/2018 10:01:15 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Starboard

You can’t drain the swamp. Do you have any idea how many hundreds of $billions are invested in DC Beltway real estate ventures betting on the continued growth of the swamp? The swamp growth investment must be one of the biggest financial bubbles ever and yet no one talks about it. It will be fun to watch.


36 posted on 01/29/2018 10:32:47 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Steven W.

37 posted on 01/29/2018 1:54:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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