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Ex-FBI official: 'Crime may have been committed' by Trump (gag alert)
wraltv-AP ^ | 2/18/2019 | Eric Tucker

Posted on 02/18/2019 2:27:37 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt

WASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview that aired Sunday that a "crime may have been committed" when President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI and tried to publicly undermine an investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia.

McCabe also said in the interview with "60 Minutes" that the FBI had good reason to open a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was in league with Russia, and therefore a possible national security threat, following the May 2017 firing of then-FBI Director James Comey.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201902; 60minutes; apfakenews; comey; crime; deepstate; deepstatecoup; fakenews; fbi; hillary; mccabe; president; treason; trump
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
our most fearsome enemy, the government of Russia?

Is that up to McCabe to decide?

Did President Obama or Secretary of State Kerry advise him that the government of Russia was our most fearsome enemy? Did Congress declare war on Russia when I wasn't looking?

Ranking our enemies was a bit above McCabe's pay grade, no?

21 posted on 02/18/2019 3:10:54 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

And, by the way, Trump’s intention to seek closer ties with Russia and a general realignment of the international scene was well known, any activities conducted to prepare the ground for this were totally legitimate, in fact, it’s one of the main reasons I supported him so strongly.


22 posted on 02/18/2019 3:14:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Bullish

Tell me about it. To date I still don’t know who is running justice in Washington. It’s like a Kindergarden class when the teacher steps out and the kids go crazy. It seems to me anybody can do pretty much anything they want without one shred of care of being indicted or even investigated.


23 posted on 02/18/2019 3:21:00 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

How bad is it,when he feels free to make this public-Amazing!


24 posted on 02/18/2019 3:29:51 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Best Response of Mine (feel free to clean it up):

Andrew McCabe was debuty director of the CIA involved in counter-intelligence. He was directly involved in withholding information and redirecting information on the Hillary Clinton illegal servers and classified emails from ever going to grand jury. His wife accepted millions in campaign ‘help’ from the Clintons and the Clinton foundation, whom financially enormously profited from money they accepted from foreign entities (and Russian Government officials included via Uranium one) when she was secretary of state. He was fully briefed by the lead FBI attorney as to the origin of the dossier, (Clinton Campaign, Fusion GPS, Perkins Coe and their alleged contacts within the Kremlin that they colluded with) that he states was worrisome. He was fully aware of the wire taps and electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign, and therefore would have had irrefutable evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign had there ever been any. These facts are no longer disputed, and are easily verifiable in congressional testimony. Andrew McCabe was likely aware that Fusion GPS set up the meeting with Russian agents (whom were reporting to Fusion GPS) with the Trump Campaign that led to no exchange of information. He also secretly met with multiple, now fired, individuals at the FBI and DOJ, whom had an “insurance policy”.

McCabe’s claims now that firing the supervising employee of his, in the executive branch was ‘possibly a crime’ is misguided from the standpoint of competence alone. His supervisor, James Comey, was directly responsible for the behavior of his employees as it pertains to the events involved with the FBI’s assistance with political spying and a former state department employee accepting money from the Russian Government. The lack of attempts at prosecution, convening a grand jury for the Uranium one, Clinton’s email servers, assisting in destroying evidence, and signing false FISA applications should be grounds enough for dismissal of any FBI employee, much less the director.

There was a time in the United States wherein the media served as a important watchdog of government. This article proves that these days are long past. The congressional testimony and easily verifiable facts demonstrate that the United States government establishment, taxpayer paid employees, have declared only themselves to be competent to pick leadership and direction. Those individuals now subvert evidence, engage in political spying, and fail to prosecute or indict individuals based upon political affiliation. They begin investigations upon evidence they know is tainted, and present such tainted evidence as reliable for political purposes, sometimes (certainly in McCabe’ case) while accepting financial gains from those providing the evidence. This article, and it’s author, clearly demonstrate they are no longer participating in watching the government for the people, but are part of a coordinated media campaign the likes of which were first demonstrated by the Journ-0-lists.

I hold the above to be self-evident or easily verifiable from Congressional testimony.


25 posted on 02/18/2019 3:30:31 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: olezip

“McCabe is digging a deeper hole for himself. How embarrassing for the FBI!”

meanwhile back at the Hive, Queen Bee Hilly safely buzzes away, further distancing her bad self from our awareness. Worker Bees like McCabe once again “behaving stupidly”.


26 posted on 02/18/2019 3:33:16 AM PST by Huaynero
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To: Steely Tom
Didn’t Rosenstein suggest to Trump that he get rid of Comey?

Just about everyone on the left wanted Comey fired, but were outraged when President Trump fired him. Remember how the Late Show audience cheered when Steve Colbert started one of his jokes by mentioning Comey's firing, until he "corrected" them by providing the appropriate indoctrination?

27 posted on 02/18/2019 3:51:20 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
McCabe committed high treason against the United States.

He led a failed coup against the Commander-in-Chief.

The FBI is an oath-led organization, and there are penalties for conspiracy and treason.

28 posted on 02/18/2019 3:57:58 AM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: gunsequalfreedom

What crime? On the other hand, McCabe and his henchmen committed many crimes, including sedition.


29 posted on 02/18/2019 4:01:16 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

I can’t believe these people were in charge of our country’s top law enforcement agency.

Couple this with the absolute crap coming out of people like Pelosi, Marco Rubio and others about Trump’s EO and you wonder who in the hell is running this country.


30 posted on 02/18/2019 4:01:44 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

But Obama promising Putin more “flexibility” prior to the 2012 election was perfectly fine.


31 posted on 02/18/2019 4:09:31 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

What was McCabes position beside silence on the Obama regime when Obama engaged in stimulating racial division using the Bully Pulpit defending those engaged in criminal activity. Encouraging resistance to arrest which resulted into attempts to take a LEO’s gun. Wound up in a series of LEO murders and riots and assaults on innocent persons deaths killed by black gangs after the Zimmerman and the Ferguson Missouri trials?. For more on this; http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm scroll to 3rd article


32 posted on 02/18/2019 4:18:43 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: Pete Dovgan
Short version:

The FBI set up, and DOJ sanctioned, a secret counterintelligence operation based on an intelligence operation which they faked. The objective was to overthrow the duly elected President of the United States.

There were no significant repercussions to the politically motivated agents and officials involved.

The end.

33 posted on 02/18/2019 4:30:06 AM PST by Badboo (Why it is important)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
…And the idea is, if the president committed obstruction of justice, fired the director of the of the FBI to negatively impact or to shut down our investigation of Russia's malign activity and possibly in support of his campaign, as a counterintelligence investigator you have to ask yourself, "Why would a president of the United States do that?" McCabe said….

"So all those same sorts of facts cause us to wonder is there an inappropriate relationship, a connection between this president and our most fearsome enemy, the government of Russia?…”

4 ifs and 1 then are not facts no matter how it is spun.

Real Facts-IG report determined McCabe “lacked candor” under oath 3 (or 4?) times. McCabe is a documented liar. No ifs, ands, buts or thens,

Sigh...McCabe will go on his book tour, interviewed by Trump haters. As with Pelley, the focus will be on what McCabe The Liar says about Trump.

NO ONE will ask about FBI/DOJ using the color/cover of law to unseat the President of the United States because they were butt hurt Hillary lost

34 posted on 02/18/2019 4:33:01 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: olezip

“How embarrassing for the FBI!”
_______________________
Not nearly enough. Only when their faces turn Communist Red
will US citizens actually see ANY sign of embarrassment.

No lib is easily embarrassed by anything, GUILTY or not.


35 posted on 02/18/2019 4:33:30 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
I looked like 60 Minutes re-shot the Scott Pelley questions vs. McCabe’s responses. Pelley was allowed to be “deeply thoughtful” and flip around intellectually with his glasses.
Yuk !
36 posted on 02/18/2019 4:38:00 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

The headline should have started:

“Disgraced Andrew McCabe says”.....

No one would have read it then.


37 posted on 02/18/2019 4:39:22 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: Pete Dovgan
Daaaaang, Pete, that's more than an encapsulation, that's an A+ book pitch.

"Andrew McCabe was debuty director of the CIA involved in counter-intelligence.
  • He was directly involved in withholding information and redirecting information on the Hillary Clinton illegal servers and classified emails from ever going to grand jury.
  • His wife accepted millions in campaign ‘help’ from the Clintons and the Clinton foundation, whom financially enormously profited from money they accepted from foreign entities (and Russian Government officials included via Uranium one) when she was secretary of state.
  • He was fully briefed by the lead FBI attorney as to the origin of the dossier, (Clinton Campaign, Fusion GPS, Perkins Coe and their alleged contacts within the Kremlin that they colluded with) that he states was worrisome.
  • He was fully aware of the wire taps and electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign, and therefore would have had irrefutable evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign had there ever been any.
These facts are no longer disputed, and are easily verifiable in congressional testimony.

Andrew McCabe was likely aware that Fusion GPS set up the meeting with Russian agents (whom were reporting to Fusion GPS) with the Trump Campaign that led to no exchange of information. He also secretly met with multiple, now fired, individuals at the FBI and DOJ, whom had an “insurance policy”."


38 posted on 02/18/2019 4:42:46 AM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: Pete Dovgan

Digging into the tossed salad. Good summary and easily
understood.


39 posted on 02/18/2019 4:43:01 AM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

None of these people have any credibility whatsoever, including the “media”.

McCabe is a traitor who deserves a blind fold and a cigarette, just like Comey.


40 posted on 02/18/2019 4:43:17 AM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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