Posted on 09/23/2019 8:28:34 PM PDT by bitt
Judicial Watch announced today it obtained a two-page memo, dated May 16, 2017, by then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe detailing how then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein proposed wearing a wire into the Oval Office “to collect additional evidence on the president’s true intentions.” McCabe writes that Rosenstein said he thought it was possible because “he was not searched when he entered the White House.”
The memo, which is redacted in key sections, purports to serve as a “contemporaneous recollection” of a meeting that day (“12:30 pm on 5/16/2017”) in Rosenstein’s office. The meeting included Rosenstein, Deputy Assistant AG for Intelligence Tashina Gauhar and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Jim Crowell in Rosenstein’s Justice Department office. McCabe writes he began the meeting by telling Rosenstein that he “approved the opening of an investigation of President Donald Trump … to investigate allegations of possible collusion between the president and the Russian Government, possible obstruction of justice related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey, and possible conspiracy to obstruct justice.” In justifying his investigation, McCabe refers to the memos Comey secretly wrote on meetings he had with President Trump and an NBC interview with Lester Holt. McCabe writes he “informed DAG [Rosenstein] that as a result of his role in the matter, I thought he would be a witness to the case.”
Rosenstein responded by recounting his discussion with President Trump, then-Attorney General Sessions and then-White House Counsel Don McGahn about Comey’s imminent firing and that President Trump wanted him to write a “memo explaining the reason” for Comey’s firing. The full text of the redacted McCabe memo is printed below:
(Excerpt) Read more at saraacarter.com ...
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I hold no brief for RR... but McCabe is a trained professional liar fighting to preserve his public persona (ahem.) The upper echelons of the FBI/DoJ were a rat's nest under the 'bamster. Good riddance!
I still see people here and elsewhere defend Rosenstein.
The latest is that he appointed Mueller to neutralize McCabe, to protect the rule of law.
I do not believe that - not in the slightest.
Viewing the photo of Comey and McCabe (attached to this story) reminds me of a proctologist looking at two new customers.
Judicial Watch doing the job that Barr refuses to do.
I have not figured out Rosenstein’s role in all this. Playing both ends? Need more information.
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