Posted on 05/22/2023 6:20:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
When Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, was fired in disgrace in 2018, it was commonly assumed it was because of the “Russiagate” investigation.
After all, he essentially ran that fiasco, which Special Counsel John Durham definitively noted this week was a baseless farce.
But no. McCabe was fired because he serially lied to investigators that he wasn’t leaking investigative information to the media.
More telling was what he was lying about: an FBI investigation of foreign efforts to influence a presidential campaign.
Not Donald Trump’s campaign. Hillary Clinton’s.
It’s just part of the many ways the FBI went easy on Clinton, as Durham reveals the agency dropped at least four criminal investigations related to her.
The Clinton Foundation was understandably suspected by FBI agents in three different field offices — Little Rock, Washington, and New York — as a dodgy vehicle enabling donors, very much including foreign regimes and their operatives, to give goo-gobs of money to Hillary and Bill Clinton without appearing to violate the campaign finance laws.
But McCabe was infuriated, during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, when the Wall Street Journal reported that he had tied the hands of investigators on the Clinton Foundation case.
Because McCabe’s wife, in her run for state office in Virginia, had received a hefty contribution from a fund tied to Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, there was a strong suggestion of partisanship on McCabe’s part.
To push back against that, McCabe had his subordinates leak that the Obama Justice Department had pressured him to shutter the Clinton Foundation probe.
This was true. In fact, it is substantiated by Durham. He found that the bureau had meetings with top Obama DOJ officials who were hostile to the investigation.
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When do these people start going to jail?
The republic is lost if there is no justice for there crimes.
The Durham Report merely stated the obvious.
You just now figuring that out, McCarthy? For such a smart guy....
“Tish” James, NY’s AG should have investigated the Clinton “Foundation” instead of the petty BS that she has pulled against PDJT, but no! The partisan hack lets Hilly and Billy slide… it is sickening.
The Durham Report merely stated the obvious.
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Except for one key thing: DC bureaucrats don’t go rogue; they always seek approval from above so as to avoid career jeopardizing mistakes that might result in political damage to higher ups.
Think of low level mafia soldiers doing things without the approval of the family. Consequences are sure to follow. Likewise, everything in DC vetted by those at the top.
That’s the part that was left out of Durham’s report.
“When do these people start going to jail?”
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DC doesn’t punish DC.
The republic was lost on 11/03/20.
It wasn’t Obama’s fault this happened. A snake will be a snake.
The real fault lies at the feet of Donald Trump. Clinton was terrified she would hang — her own words — if Trump won. So when Trump got in office, what did he do? He surrounded himself with Deep State actors and essentially walked away from holding her accountable.
Blaming Obama now misses the four years after he walked away…
McCarthy’s a putz, and always has been. 0 credibility in my eyes.
Correction, the republic was lost 11/4/08
shouldn’t that be ‘quashed’?
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“When do these people start going to jail?”
NEVER. That’s the point. That’s what Trump has been saying about a double standard of law enforcement at the highest levels. THIS is the legacy of the Obama administration.
“The republic is lost if there is no justice for there crimes.”
Big Corporations like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, and many others funded Obama and his minions and HELPED with the 2020, 2022 election issues. They are supported and funded by Government, and they help Government to do the illegal. That IS NOT a Republic by definition. That’s a Fascist State.
They’ll never see the inside of a courtroom, let alone a prison cell.
You ‘quash’ a subpeona........
When you have determined Democrats and milquetoast GOP, the milquetoast always loses.
DC doesn’t punish DC.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Tell us something we didn’t know.
We’ve have known for literally decades how corrupt the Clintons and their entourage are. We’ve known for decades how corrupt the Obamas and their entourage are. We’ve know for over half a century how corrupt the intelligence agencies are.
What we don’t know is how they’re able to pull all this crap off, blatantly right in front of our collective eyes. And we don’t why the entire Democrat party covers for them. And where are all the Democrats with so called integrity that will stand up against this?
“And where are all the Democrats with so called integrity that will stand up against this?”
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They’re a tribe. Anyone outside the tribe is seen as an outsider and a threat to the “village”. So they band together.
Conservatives are more inclined to view things from the perspective of being individuals with a non-tribal broader view of things.
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