McCabe firing in every direction to save his arse

[TreeFrogTrader]

Just saw a snippet of the CBS McCabe interview. Wow, that guy is trying to take both the FBI and Trump down to save his lying arse and sell his book.

Okay, fine. We know a lot of that already and we know that a liar gotta lie BUT - in the "what's new category"- the thing that absolutely blew my mind was the way this mother was recounting- ON NATIONAL TV- personal conversations in the presidents office about national intelligence matters. All of which is presumably highly classified. Talking about Trumps position on Russia, and North Korea and what the American intelligence agencies positions were versus Trumps etc. - not in general- but as a recitation of specific in the White House conversations and statements of the President. Man, that boy gonna get locked up for something at some point. Just unbelievable. The dumphuk is acting punch drunk, thinking that stuff is not classified.

His ass is grass and Bill Barr is gonna be a lawnmower at some point, and Rosenstein will be cheering Barr on - even if he leaves- because Rosenstein has big problems himself- very big- if anyone starts believing Andy on anything.



update- just saw Jason Chaffetz do a rant about how McCabe is gonna get prosecuted for discussing national intelligence on TV. You heard it here first on ET. Yeh, I know, nothing ever happens anywhere, anytime to these guys like McCabe but I obviously feel Jason's pain. It does sorta boggle the mind. Unbelievable.

You know if you are a foreign agent and looking to recruit, the first targets you look for are former American intel agents, who are suddenly without a job, and are disgruntled about their former agency and being discharged. Just sayin. I would keep an eye on McCabe. He has gone rogue. Of course he was fired for lying about his going rogue even while he was there. He is high risk and needs to be monitored. Bruce Ohr is another one. He was head of American counterintelligence and knows the names and locations of almost every undercover American agent and foreign agents known to the Americans. Or he has access to that info. Watch those guys. They are a threat to the Republic. As is trying to overthrow an election and then implement a coup.

 

[traderob]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-barrs-hot-mess-11550188935
Bill Barr’s Hot Mess
He arrives at a Justice Department that is in desperate needs of an infusion of credibility.


By Kimberley A. Strassel

It’s fitting that William Barr’s confirmation as attorney general happened just as two powerful law-enforcement figures were trading accusations involving President Trump. Mr. Barr’s greatest challenge isn’t antitrust deals, immigration policy or even handling special counsel Robert Mueller. His overriding challenge is to reboot a Justice Department that has shredded its reputation and lost the confidence of Congress and the public.

It’s hard to feel confident in law enforcement when a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Andrew McCabe, reveals that a small cabal of unelected senior law-enforcement officers held meetings in May 2017 to plot Mr. Trump’s removal from office. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Thursday and a forthcoming book, Mr. McCabe says he and other officials, including Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, did head-counts of which cabinet officials might vote to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” under the 25th Amendment. Mr. McCabe claims Mr. Rosenstein repeatedly offered to wear a wire when meeting with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Rosenstein, who’s expected to resign soon, responded Thursday with a Justice Department statement blasting the claims as “factually incorrect” and highlighting that Mr. McCabe was fired for lying to the department’s inspector general. The rest of the statement was pure spin, in which Mr. Rosenstein never denied the McCabe claims.

That’s the Justice Department Mr. Barr arrives to lead—a hot mess of finger-pointing, leaks, planted press narratives, obstruction and extraordinary self-righteousness. Since the FBI presumed to investigate two active presidential campaigns, more than two dozen Justice and FBI officials have been fired, demoted or resigned. Yet no one in authority has acknowledged the mistakes that led to this bloodbath, explained how these institutions failed so spectacularly, or offered a plan for ending the dysfunction.

That’s Mr. Barr’s opening. For the first time in this presidency, the Justice Department will have a leader who is apart from the Russia stink—neither accused of “collusion” nor obsessed with finding it. He’s also uniquely suited to understand the importance of credibility and accountability, having worked in the 1970s at the Central Intelligence Agency, then under intense fire. The first measure of the “independence” Mr. Barr promised in his confirmation hearings will be his ability to assess ruthlessly the institution he’s about to join and come clean with the public on two key questions—the “whether” and the “how” of 2016.

Whether the Justice Department’s and FBI’s most controversial actions were appropriate. Is it acceptable for the FBI to use opposition research as an excuse to surveil a political campaign? To use back channels to stay in touch with sources it fired? To open counterintelligence investigations (as opposed to criminal ones) into political figures? To actively hide those investigations from congressional overseers? To hold meetings about removing presidents? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, Americans deserve to know that this is the brave new world they live in.

If not, how did it happen, and how can leaders make sure it never happens again? What protections are there against the clear bias that permeated law enforcement’s upper ranks (Peter Strzok), or insubordination (Jim Comey) or obsessive media cultivation (Mr. McCabe)? What are the lines of authority, and what are the consequences for breaking the rules? How is it (as we learned this week from newly revealed emails) that Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, was able to reach the FBI’s general counsel on the phone? How many Americans get that courtesy? The public will never trust a law-enforcement agency that has different standards for the powerful, or appears to prosecute only in one political direction, or operates as a law unto itself.

This accounting is important for the country, but also for the Justice Department and FBI themselves—and their ability to protect the country. Lawmakers, for instance, remain furious about the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It’s a bedrock tool for combating terrorism, yet it was stretched for use against American citizens involved in political campaigns. Top Republicans have made clear they will refuse to reauthorize parts of FISA until the Justice Department acknowledges that it overstepped its bounds and explains what reforms it will take.

Mr. Barr may be tempted to fob all this off on the investigations by the U.S. attorney for Utah, John Huber, or the Justice Department inspector general. But Mr. Huber appears to have done little by way of investigation, the inspector general’s report could still be a long way out, and in any event these questions merit answers from the nation’s top legal officer. Mr. Barr needs this job like he needs a hole in the head. But if he spends the next years rebuilding trust in federal law enforcement, he’ll have performed an immense public service.

 

[Tom B]

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein expected to step down by mid-March, official says

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de...ected-to-step-down-by-mid-march-official-says

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

Man, there is some deeply, deeply sickening shiite here. We see the actual back and forth between McCabe and the investigators interviewing him. Both the lefty and the right leaning sites report the same because, well, they are the quotes from the report and the transcripts.

The investigator explains to McCabe that they have been working day and night and weekends to help McCabe uncover who on his staff has been leaking but then they found out that it was McCabe who had done it. So McCabe says: "I'm sorry."

Absolutely frigging boggles the mind how this clown was not/has not yet been charged for perjury. Deep, deep shame and dishonor are upon the FBI/DOJ until that happens. Letting him off the hook, means they are continuing to be part of the crooked culture. Crooked, crooked, crooked culture. McCabe skating while his investigators are sending others to prison or to court for perjury.

Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham. You have done and are doing some good things but you do not get a pass on this. Remedy it or be known as part of the crooked culture. There is no way you right the ship without doing so. Mr. Barr, I am looking at you.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/01/andrew-mccabe-apologize-media-leak/

 

[TreeFrogTrader]

Kind of an interesting dynamic here. Jeffrey Toobin the cnn mouthpiece lawyer is getting histrionic and cranking McCabe up by telling him that he is in danger.

That's all coming from the left and Toobin though. A short time ago McCabe got some good news and both the media and conservatives sort of accepted the "fact" that Andy was out of the woods now.

Now Toobin cranks things up telling him that he needs to be worried bigtime because he is still being targetted by Trump and "is under investigation from th U.S. attorney's office right now."
Heh, take that Andy. With friends like Toobin, who needs enemas you may be asking.

Whatever. At a minimum, I am all for anything that keeps Andy sweating. If CNN wants to help, that's fine. Maybe Andy can chill out a bit by reading the forum here and having the lefty "experts" confirm that there is nothing for you to worry about. Or Brennan or Clapper either. They have secret information from the voices in their Rice Krispies that Toobin does not have. It is true though- to Toobin's points- that the Justice Department told McCabe that he was not being prosecuted on the lying and leaking allegations- not that they were done with him on other issues that Mr. Durham might be looking into, for example.

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CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin warned that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is in "a really perilous condition right now," arguing President Trump is targeting him for prosecution.

McCabe was ousted in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who cited a report by the FBI's inspector general that found McCabe without authority gave information to a news outlet and lied about the leak.

“Look, you can have grievances with James Comey,” Toobin told CNN anchor Don Lemon on Thursday night, referring to the former FBI director who was fired by Trump in 2017. “The idea [Comey] committed a crime is absurd. The person in a really perilous condition right now is the CNN contributor Andrew McCabe, who is under investigation from the U.S. attorney’s office right now. And, you know, has had his case dangling out there."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...s-in-perilous-condition-with-emboldened-trump

 

[Tony Stark]

Kind of an interesting dynamic here. Jeffrey Toobin the cnn mouthpiece lawyer is getting histrionic and cranking McCabe up by telling him that he is in danger.

That's all coming from the left and Toobin though. A short time ago McCabe got some good news and both the media and conservatives sort of accepted the "fact" that Andy was out of the woods now.

Now Toobin cranks things up telling him that he needs to be worried bigtime because he is still being targetted by Trump and "is under investigation from th U.S. attorney's office right now."
Heh, take that Andy. With friends like Toobin, who needs enemas you may be asking.

Whatever. At a minimum, I am all for anything that keeps Andy sweating. If CNN wants to help, that's fine. Maybe Andy can chill out a bit by reading the forum here and having the lefty "experts" confirm that there is nothing for you to worry about. Or Brennan or Clapper either. They have secret information from the voices in their Rice Krispies that Toobin does not have. It is true though- to Toobin's points- that the Justice Department told McCabe that he was not being prosecuted on the lying and leaking allegations- not that they were done with him on other issues that Mr. Durham might be looking into, for example.

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CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin warned that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is in "a really perilous condition right now," arguing President Trump is targeting him for prosecution.

McCabe was ousted in 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who cited a report by the FBI's inspector general that found McCabe without authority gave information to a news outlet and lied about the leak.

“Look, you can have grievances with James Comey,” Toobin told CNN anchor Don Lemon on Thursday night, referring to the former FBI director who was fired by Trump in 2017. “The idea [Comey] committed a crime is absurd. The person in a really perilous condition right now is the CNN contributor Andrew McCabe, who is under investigation from the U.S. attorney’s office right now. And, you know, has had his case dangling out there."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...s-in-perilous-condition-with-emboldened-trump

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