FBI Director Chris Wray read the controversial 4-page memo detailing massive FISA court abuses under the Obama Administration on Sunday night. The following day, the FBI’s second in command, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, was abruptly “removed” from his position.
Were the two connected? It’s hard to imagine they weren’t.
It’s been pointed out in the past that McCabe’s wife received nearly $700,000 from the PAC of Virginia’s Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a major Clinton ally, and McCabe is probably the man named by disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok in his infamous “insurance policy text.” In that text, Strzok wrote to his mistress Lisa Page before the 2016 election, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
Weeks prior to his resignation, on December 19th and 21st, McCabe was questioned for 16 hours by the House Intelligence Committee. The private questioning reportedly centered on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary, and McCabe’s biases. Sen. Chuck Grassley called for his resignation after the questioning.
Clearly unsatisfied with McCabe’s answers to questioning, Sen. Grassley called for the ousting of McCabe afterwards, stating that he “ought to go for reasons of being involved in some of the things that took place in the previous administration. We want to make sure that there’s not undue political influence within the FBI — the [Justice] Department and the FBI.” And not long after, The Washington Post reported that McCabe would be retiring early in March.
Something led to the accelerating of that decision, and it’s probably what’s in that memo.
What it could have uncovered, however, may refer to something else: McCabe’s role in the Russia investigation, or rather, his role in misleading the media to support the collusion narrative.
According to The Federalist,
Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe asked to speak privately with White House chief of staff Reince Priebus following a February 2017 intelligence briefing. The scene is described in “Media Madness,” Howard Kurtz’s new book on the press and its relationship with the Trump administration. McCabe said he asked for the meeting to tell Priebus that “everything” in a New York Times story authored by Michael S. Schmidt, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo was “bullsh-t.”
The story was yet another one of those anonymous “bombshells” you’ve heard so much about during the Trump era. It was headlined “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence”
McCabe claimed to want Priebus to know the FBI’s perspective that this story was not true. Priebus pointed to the televisions that were going non-stop on the story. He asked if the FBI could say publicly what he had just told him. McCabe said he’d have to check, according to the book.
McCabe reportedly called back and said he couldn’t do anything about it. Then-FBI director James Comey reportedly called later and also said he couldn’t do anything.
And what happened next? A week later, CNN airs a breaking story about Priebus, claiming that the FBI rejected a “White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump’s associates and Russians known to U.S. intelligence.”
See the trap that McCabe set for Priebus?
We know that he and Peter Strzok were bad actors in the FBI. Who will we learn was tainted next?
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