Seth Abramson had a thread on this -
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“News Flash! FBI career professional follows DOJ and FBI policies. What could this mean for the future of the agency?”
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I hope this office is the target of the investigation. Would be really nice if that were the case.
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Ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
DOJ has handed over to Mueller’s office internal communications covering the periods when Sessions offered to resign and when Trump tried to dismiss Mueller. These communications include exchanges with White House officials.
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All part of the pending backfire … the American people need to understand these things. I can’t wait for McCabe’s book.
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Yes, those are the ones who seem to have passed confidential information to Rudy Giuliani during the campaign, aren’t they? And, BTW, Rudy’s keeping an awfully low profile these days, isn’t he?
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I’m sure that if you asked Trump, he’d say, “Rudy Who?” :-/
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Many, including I, have surmised that the NY FBI office is rife with agents who have an anti-Clinton bias. So the NY office pushed a Clinton investigation in violation of standing DOJ policy; McCabe does the right thing in slowing down the investigation, and he gets in trouble?
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The FBI was able to stay extraordinarily tight-lipped on their investigation about Trump-Russia during the election. They did not appear to have the same concern/discretion about influencing the election AGAINST HRC between Comey’s “clearing Hillary of criminal violations rant”, which arguably lead some people to believe all the worst about HRC, as well as his odd late October notice purportedly re-opening the investigation, which also dragged HRC down further. If the FBI was “biased” against anybody and influenced the election against anybody, it was HRC. The idea that the FBI is some festering nest of pro-HRC/Democrat cabal working furiously to undermine President Trump would be laughable if the Republicans weren’t so deadly serious about it.
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Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not at all comforted by “why … might have…”, because NOW it sounds like it’s our side making excuses and engaging in a cover up.
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Maybe, but our reasoning/speculation makes a whole lot more sense than the craziness that Republicans are pitching. Cover-up?
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and how was any deliberation on McCabe’s part not to violate that policy a problem? What possible negative consequences were there or could there have been? Even if Comey hadn’t sent out that memo, and the election proceeded without this negative influence, the agency could still have completed its investigation of the “emails” - and they would have found NOTHING - and therefore no harm no foul.
I am totally at a loss as to why anything McCabe did or didn’t do had ANY consequences for anything!
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I’ve said this a few times but let me say it again. This fuss is based on the improbable notion that the FBI didn’t take a peek at those emails the day they first noted them. I just find it hard to believe that email belonging to HRC was on a laptop in the FBI’s possession, for three weeks, and they played straight arrow and waited for a warrant. I’m positive they looked…saw nothing was there so they played the email to their advantage. Dropping a “maybe” bomb on HRC. I would’t be surprised if McCabe slow rolled it because he knew nothing was there and it could wait until after the election.
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In government, slow-walking infers abuse of discretion or administrative monkeywrenching to delay or obstruct something you don’t want to happen but don’t have the power to actually stop. If DOJ policy was to not take overt investigative steps that may affect an election then McCabe wasn’t slow-walking anything. He was just doing his job.
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Wow—Seth Abramson is on fire! Dirty cops and FBI in NYC take Russian organized crime money and sell out their country–I hope they make their identities public. I hope everyone in America sees their faces and learns their names. It should be easy enough for Mueller to see the tax returns, accounts, and assets of everyone associtated with the NY field office.
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Well, by now Mueller knows everything Flynn knows. And Flynn was clearly in the know, here. There is a reason that Giuliani has not been heard from in months. Not a peep. Silence. And I’m sure Mueller knows who the FBI agents were, too. Both active and retired. We’ve heard nothing of them. Why?
This is National Security level shit here.
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In Trumpworld, following the rules is evidence of partisan bias, conspiracy and utmost impropriety.
And, with that, I have now officially lost count of the number of things I have written this week that I wish were snark but are literally true.
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Can someone please remind me the gist of Republicans problems concerning Hillary’s emails? I know that she used a private email server, which was apparently well outside accepted protocol, maybe even against the law to do so. I also understand that some of the emails she sent and received contained classified information. However, after years of investigation, it has been concluded that her server was not breached, and none of those emails were stolen, thus resulting in the release of any classified information. Hillary has admitted what she did was wrong. The DoJ and the FBI decided that the issue was not worth pursuing, and they closed the investigation. That is, it remained closed until Clinton became a candidate for POTUS. At that point, Republicans screamed bloody murder about her use of that private server, and complained and complained and complained that the FBI did not do enough to punish Hillary Clinton. Hillary lost the election, and did not become POTUS. Why then are Republicans still obsessed with this notion that her use of a private email server was tantamount to treason, and she should be punished? No one can point to any nefarious use of her emails that were not stolen. WTF is the end harm of her emails??? Is it only that she’s not in prison? Is she the useful prop that lets Republicans gin up claims of favoritism at the FBI to demonstrate that they helped her lose? I truly am lost on the Republicans logic in all of this. Why do they cling to that woman? Why is the GOP the Party of Hillary Clinton?
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A point I omitted, but agree with wholeheartedly.
The problem was Comey decided, after conferring with his inner Niebuhr, he didn’t agree. Afterwards, he still felt he did the right thing by sending the letter to Congress, which was waiting with bated breath.
No, the circus animals were salivating.
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Republicans, particularly the base, are largely reactive creatures. They can only conceive of the world as they themselves understand it. So any time they see something where they would commit malfeasance, they 100% believe that everyone would commit the same. They can’t comprehend honest people exist. So they are certain that Hillary is guilty of all the things that they would do in her position.
Similarly, they view the Democrats going after Trump in the same vein. This is just the Democrats pushing the wheels of the “Deep State” to grind Trump to dust. No different than what they tried to do to Obama and what they fully expected to try to do to President Clinton. They can’t conceive of the possibility that the investigations against Trump are based on legitimate cause.
There are cynics in the group who are only acting for their personal gain, but there are a lot of true-believers in the mix since the party has been self-selecting those believers for at least half a century and now they run the party.