Posted on 02/15/2019 7:02:17 AM PST by blam
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein rejected allegations made by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to CBS News that he and other officials discussed removing the president via the 25th amendment after he fired James Comey, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.
“As to the specific portions of this interview provided to the Department of Justice by 60 Minutes in advance, the Deputy Attorney General again rejects Mr. McCabe’s recitation of events as inaccurate and factually incorrect,” the statement said.
There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment.
These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what do with the president.
“[McCabe] is the very first person involved in these meetings who has come out and spoken publicly,” Pelley said. “They were counting noses, they were not asking cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating ‘This person would be with us. That person would not be,’ and they were counting noses in that effort. … This was not perceived to be a joke.”
Pelley also said McCabe told him Rosenstein offered multiple times to wear a wire in meetings with the president, and that he was so serious about it he took it to FBI lawyers.
The DOJ said in its statement “the Deputy Attorney General never authorized any recording that Mr. McCabe references.”
“Finally, the Deputy Attorney General never spoke to Mr. Comey about appointing a Special Counsel.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
“And where or where was our AG at the time? Hiding.”
Exactly there were people INSIDE his department doing this.
Rosenstein may or may not be an honest Deputy AG. What he is, however, is a man with a long career as a Federal attorney who would no better than anyone else just how ridiculous it is to remove the President from office under the 25th Amendment. Read the details of the 25th Amendment, folks. It takes a two-thirds vote in BOTH houses of Congress to remove a President from office under those conditions. It's easier to impeach and convict a President than to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
Only a moron would even consider pursuing this course of action. If there's a moron among all the duplicitous @ssholes in this group, my money is on McCabe or Strzok.
Rosenstein said it, and MEANT it. He is one of them. He has fully supported this Russia/Trump farce all along.
He would have done it had they decided it was useful.
His buddy Comey was leaking details of his meetings with Trump two months before.
The FBI/CIA was wiretapping Trump two months before.
There is nothing that would make it the least bit odd to think Rod would do it.
The FBI/CIA is a policy making branch now, they determine who we are enemies with and who we attack. The President serves only with their approval and they see themselves as a check on the Presidency.
We live in a soft authoritarian national security state today. Soft, as long as you aren’t a big threat, like maybe Seth Rich.
“Crickets from every single DemocRat and old guard GOP elites.”
Sounds like a job for “We the People” since that body of scum probably won’t address it.
That shouldn't surprise you. Either he's lying, or he recognizes that this admission is basically harmless.
All you Freepers out there who are calling for McCabe to be prosecuted for "treason" or "sedition" because he wanted to remove the President from office under the 25th Amendment should cut back on your coffee intake. There's nothing criminal about discussing -- or even pursuing -- a course of action that is written into the U.S. Constitution.
McCabe is a moron. He probably spent too much time discussing this nonsense with the third-rate lawyers who work as talking heads for the failing cable news networks.
Line them up and shoot everyone of them, just to make sure we got them all. This isn’t Nicaragua in the seventies - we need to make sure any future coups d’état die on the vine because the stakes are too high. A handful of bullets will assure that this is the last time our intelligence agencies try to overthrow the will of the people.
Sedition, yes. Treason, no.
To answer your question about why President Trump didn’t fire Mueller, the answer is clear. He was new in office, plus new to politics and the ways of DC. Obstruction of justice and impeachment threats were coming from senate REPUBLICANS. And his own legal team was advising him not to do it.
I hope Trump is our Samson and ends up pulling the whole house down on these Bastard People (yet, unlike Samson, miraculously escapes to win 2020 and set the globalists back another century).
Spoiler alert!
We haven't forgotten anything -- except you left out an important step.
After Rosenstein laid out his recommendation for the firing of Comey, and after Comey was fired, President Trump -- for reasons that baffle the hell out of me to this day -- did an interview with Lester Holt on NBC and made the astonishing statement that he fired Comey over the Russia matter. This put Rosenstein in a position where he looked like he conspired to have Comey fired under false pretenses. This is why he immediately announced the appointment of a special counsel to oversee the investigation.
Like I said ... I can't imagine why Trump would have been dumb enough to do what he did. Before that time, he had spent two years rightly ridiculing the crooked biased, fake news media in the U.S. as an arm of the Democratic Party ... and then in the days after firing Comey he finds several hours in his busy schedule to give a f#%&ing interview with NBC News? I know how those interviews work. For a 15-20 minute interview segment, NBC probably had two hours of interview footage. That crooked corporate media wing of the DNC was only too willing to edit the interview and present the most damaging parts of it to a national TV audience.
I love Trump, but in this case he was an absolute moron. This is the risk you run when you have a TV clown in the White House, I guess.
A federal grand jury must be empaneled to determine if there is evidence to charge McCabe,Rosenstein et al with conspiracy to commit an act of Sedition against the United States of America. No congressional committeed, no special prosecutors.a federal grand jury supported by the U. S. Marshal Service must be empaneled now. All documents, cell phone records, hard drives, official and personal emails, personal computers and those of spouses and adukt children must be placed in the hands of the Marshal Service before this Monday.
Sorry, I don’t think it’s normal - or constitutional - for federal departments to decide they want to “invoke” the 25th amendment to impeach a president, particularly since their only reason for discussing this was that they didn’t like him and had expected Hilary to win.
Frankly, I think the only reason they backed off and went for a protracted campaign to harass and handicap him was that they realized that Pence would then become president. And I think Pence is definitely less warm and fuzzy and long-suffering than Trump, so they were scared. Of course, next they would have discussed some way of getting rid of Pence too.
Strange as it may seem. Rosenstein may turn out to be a little bit of a hero in this. The appointment of Mueller may have stopped a coup by the FBI. 8 Days in May. Will be a book and a movie?
It’s high time Trump went on offense instead of defense. Let Mueller continue with his charade, but Barr needs to start proceedings to determine, at minimum, two things:
1. How were the FISA warrants presented to the FISA court, what do the warrants say, and did those involved withhold information from the court?
2. Did members of the incumbent DOJ and FBI conspire to oust the duly elected president of the USA?
He needs to subpoena Strzok, Page, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Brennan, et. al. and let an investigative team attempt to put together what really happened before, during, and following the transition of power from Obama to Trump.
How do you know why Rosenstein did what he did? So the President gave an interview and made an ill-considered off-the-cuff statement. So what. If Rosenstein had an issue with the statement he could have addressed it privately with his boss (the President) and the communications office could have issued a follow-up clarification. This sort of clarification is routine and has been done countless times by all administrations.
EXACTLY!!
“Only a moron would even consider pursuing this course of action.”
One could argue you would have to be a moron to get involved in illegally wiretapping a presidential candidate who, if they won, would immediately find out you had been illegally wiretapping them.
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