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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Amen, Brother!
When do these people start going to jail?
When voters open their eyes and ears
Good luck with that
That was the price for getting elected.
The real fault lies at the feet of Donald Trump.
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Not a smidgen!
When you are a member of "The Club" you never have to worry about such things.
Club members always protect their own no matter which party.
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His report did state that 0bama and Biden were briefed by John Brennan on Hillary's plan to smear Trump with Russia collusion. Not much room for ambiguity there.
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So what is Andy doing about it?
How do you spell moron? Magnation.
Well, he’s a columnist so I expect he will continue to write about it.
“His report did state that 0bama and Biden were briefed by John Brennan on Hillary’s plan to smear Trump with Russia collusion. Not much room for ambiguity there.”
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The report was a whitewash. This entire sordid episode was, at its very essence, a politically orchestrated and unlawful abuse of power. That should have been the clear take away from anyone who read the report.
This was a complete breach of trust from the top down. The closest Durham comes to acknowledging this is in a brief passage in the Executive Summary: “Ultimately, of course, meeting those responsibilities comes down to the integrity of the people who take an oath to follow the guidelines and policies currently in place, guidelines that date from the time of Attorney General Levi and that are designed to ensure the rule of law is upheld.”
The rule of law broke down at the hands of devious and corrupt politicians and their army of treacherous bureaucratic hacks.
I realize that Durham was working under some constraints but exposing the full depth of corruption, and the grotesque failure of leadership, is the only way to protect the integrity of our presidential campaigns and prevent high level collusion like this from happening again. Top officials are largely given a pass with regards to any suggestions of accountability. Such violations of trust at the highest levels are of the utmost importance if a representative democracy such as ours is to survive. There is no room for ambiguity when it comes to something like that.
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying but Durham did state that 0bama and Biden were informed of the plot and it also unequivocally stated that Hillary Clinton “approved” of the plot that a subordinate brought to her.
Those are things that none of them can now deny with any credibility and of course none of them will sue him for defamation either.
It’s not what we wanted but it does push them further into a corner.
As you probably know several high-level former government officials directly involved in Crossfire Hurricane either declined or partially declined to cooperate with Durham’s investigation, and some simply refused to cooperate.
Allowing these people to dodge accountability was a major impediment to the credibility of the report IMO. Of course none of the highest level instigators were never even interviewed so they are left to perpetually deny and/or spin their way out of any semblance of culpability.
The report will collect dust like every other whitewash DC produces to protect its own. Just another day in the Swamp.
I agree with all of that and it doesn’t change a single thing I’ve been saying.
We may disagree on the impact of the report but I think we both agree that a lot more accountability is needed in DC.
FReegards.
We’re gonna need more congressional investigators and investigations followed by more hearings right up to the presidential election.
Then let the jailings begin.
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