FBI’s McCabe Cancels House Intel Appearance As Story Breaks About Top DOJ Official Working For Democrat Group

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: (L-R) Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe other law enforcement officials hold a news conference to announce an 'international cybercrime enforcement action' at the Department of Justice July 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said Wednesday in an interview with the New York Times that he never would have appointed Sessions had he known Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. "Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else," Trump said. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Claiming there had been a simple scheduling error, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe bowed out of an appearance before the House Intelligence Committee scheduled for Tuesday.

McCabe was originally expected to be grilled about senior FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok’s role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The announcement came as reports of a senior Justice Department official involved in the Russia investigation was revealed to have close ties to the Russian-aligned, Democrat-funded opposition research outfit that put together the phony Trump dossier.

Coincidence? As Alan Moore once wrote, ‘There is no coincidence … Only the illusion of coincidence.’

In fact, some sources had viewed the cancellation of McCabe’s appearance as “something far more sinister.”

The reference to Ohr involves Nellie H. Ohr, wife of Justice Department official, Bruce G. Ohr, who was demoted after it was revealed he had concealed meetings with individuals behind the dossier.

His wife, Nellie, worked for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS just last year.

Sources said to be on the lookout for subpoenas to compel McCabe’s testimony.

Within moments however, the Department of Justice claimed McCabe’s cancellation was nothing more than a scheduling snafu, due to somebody transposing dates on the calendar.

According to Fox News, McCabe is now set to appear before the Committee next week. A congressional source told the Daily Caller they found the scheduling excuse “very hard to believe.”

Much of what comes from the FBI and Department of Justice these days falls in that same category – ‘very hard to believe.’

Perhaps that’s why the President claimed the FBI had been left ‘in tatters’ after James Comey’s departure.

Is there something ‘sinister’ behind McCabe’s cancellation? Does he have an Ohr problem? Share your thoughts on the matter in the comments section below.

Rusty Weiss has been covering politics for over 15 years. His writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, Fox... More about Rusty Weiss

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