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Yellow streak running: Former FBI deputy chief McCabe says FBI agents are scared of going to jail if Trump is elected
American Thinker ^ | 06/06/2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/06/2024 8:26:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

There's a reason federal agencies used to stay out of politics, but it appears the Obama generation never thought it meant them.

Now we get Andrew McCabe, the fired former FBI deputy director, attempting to whip up sympathy in the press for FBI agents who have turned that agency into the internal security apparatus of the Democrat party.

According to Breitbart News:

CNN analyst and former FBI chief Andrew McCabe said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Source” that people in the intelligence and law enforcement community were worried if former President Donald Trump is elected again, they would be “thrown in jail or grabbed in some sort of extra judicial detention.”

McCabe said, “When you think about these things and you try to predict how Donald Trump is going to react are the steps he’s going to take you really don’t have to go any further than listening to the things he says and does his, comments recently are offensive and horrendous, but they’re not a surprising in any way. He’s been saying this for quite some time. I will be your retribution is referring to is supporters. So, you know him, you know, what motivates him. He is not a person who’s driven by principle or ideology. He is someone who’s entirely transactional.”

He continued, “If he feels like he’s been wronged in some way, then he focuses on revenge and then in vengeance. He’s made it perfectly clear that that’s what he’s gonna do. In the process of seeking that he run the risk of dismantling or greatly incapacitating the Department of Justice and the FBI. That is something that Americans on both sides of the political aisle should be worried about. We depend on those institutions to protect us.”

Blah, blah, blah.

Oh, spare us.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; fbicorruption; jail; mccabe; trump
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Heck!

Up until a few years ago, the FBI used to be a studiously non-political organization. Now they're the willing storm troopers of every instance of legal overreach instituted by Democrats in search of political enemies to punish, draconianly, of course. This is and should be illegal.

To the extent that they have been caught in legal malfeasance, particularly of the politicized kind, they've walked away with slaps on the wrist if not complete impunity. Start with McCabe himself, who got fired for leaking to the press, which he knew he was not supposed to do, but did anyway. His subsequent lawsuit restored his full pension and he's now living high on the hog. Who says crime doesn't pay?

1 posted on 06/06/2024 8:26:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

They should. There are many of them that deserve arrest for their actions in this era.


2 posted on 06/06/2024 8:28:59 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: SeekAndFind

If they have done nothing wrong, what is their worry?


3 posted on 06/06/2024 8:30:07 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: SeekAndFind

hrmph, singing, Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time... no, no, no, no. don’t do it.


4 posted on 06/06/2024 8:31:16 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: SeekAndFind

but... “if you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about”.... if they are fearful, perhaps they should be


5 posted on 06/06/2024 8:34:10 AM PDT by Still a Patriot
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To: SeekAndFind

President Trump won’t seek vengeance or a purge.

To many it will be righteous retribution.

Hopefully served very cold.

556mm


6 posted on 06/06/2024 8:34:29 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Those that cannot be convicted should be transferred to Guam, American Samoa, Wake island and the Aleutians.


7 posted on 06/06/2024 8:36:33 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind

Now it finally dawns on you, McCabe, that when you go the authoritarian route with other people it might come back to haunt you.


8 posted on 06/06/2024 8:36:49 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: SeekAndFind

That is what I call being bothered by a GUILTY CONSCIOUS!!


9 posted on 06/06/2024 8:37:11 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: DesertRhino

Alas, the statute of limitations has run. 18 USC Sec. 3282. Thanks, “Bull” Durham! A whole mess of people were on the hook for seditious conspiracy and quite a number for perjury, including McCabe and Comey for signing the FISA warrant applications. This seditious POS is just posturing.


10 posted on 06/06/2024 8:37:47 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Isn't it sickening and disgusting how sorry bastards like mccabe always accuse others of what they themselves do the most? I hope they are scared and I hope their fears are well founded and come true.

Justice would be no-knock raids on their homes at 0600 and whatever comes next as the just shoot in self-defense. To hear them sob and soil themselves as the SS did would be so satisfying.

I guess we can still dream, can't we?

11 posted on 06/06/2024 8:38:16 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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RE: bothered by a GUILTY CONSCIOUS!!

Come again?
12 posted on 06/06/2024 8:38:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Another tactic. They know perfectly well that a republican DOJ is not going to do a d*** thing to them.


13 posted on 06/06/2024 8:38:53 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Racketeer

Jail? No. Just fire 100 or so of them. Offer them their resignation if they know they’re guilty otherwise they can lawyer up.


14 posted on 06/06/2024 8:39:08 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: j.havenfarm

Just do like they did in New Yawk.

Extend the Statute of Limitations, just for them like they did Trump. What’s good for the goose.................


15 posted on 06/06/2024 8:39:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DesertRhino

👍👍👍👍👍


16 posted on 06/06/2024 8:40:07 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA
If they have done nothing wrong, what is their worry?

My sentiments exactly. You can't be prosecuted if you don't break the law right? Certainly can't be jailed for following the law to the best of your ability ...right?

17 posted on 06/06/2024 8:40:23 AM PDT by jz638
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To: SeekAndFind

We just want the rule of law after all. If they didn’t break the law they should be fine.


18 posted on 06/06/2024 8:42:25 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

If you didn’t break the law, you have nothing to worry about. Isn’t that what they always say?


19 posted on 06/06/2024 8:43:50 AM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I hope alot of them are presecuted.

The problem is the left wing hack DC courts.

If they are going after people, they need to figure out how to do it in Texas or Florida...or some red state...and keep it out of DC.


20 posted on 06/06/2024 8:46:53 AM PDT by suasponte137
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