Point to remember. Shortly after Trump was elected Chuck Schumer made a grinning comment that Trump had better be careful because the CIA was a powerful institution. Somehow the plotters let the dopey Schumer get wind of what they were doing and the fool could not contain himself. It was very telling.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe informed Comey that CNN would use the existence of the briefing as the basis for its story. “The trigger for them is they know the material was discussed in the brief and presented in an attachment,” he wrote. (Likewise, the FBI’s Peter Strzok appeared to have his own oddly close relationship with the media.)
How did McCabe know what CNN’s trigger for running the story would be? And why would he need to have that information and distribute it within the Bureau?
The obvious explanation is coordination.
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Schumer did spew. It seemed to me to be somewhat like a warning though, not a threat particularly.
“Schumer made a grinning comment that Trump had better be careful because the CIA was a powerful institution.”
Yup. He said Intelligence has “six ways from Sunday” to basically to take out Trump. Not even a veiled threat; it was in your face, and evil.