About Andrew McCabe's TV appearances

[Stinky The Clown]

I have seen a number of them now.

A couple of possibilities pop into my mind as I watch:

He has created a plot and the more he tells it the more real it becomes to him. It is easy to answer questions and give a narrative when one has has so much time to do nothing but write book and tend to a lawsuit to get one's name and pension back.

~~OR~~

The guy is really the quintessential FBI agent. A softened version and amalgamation of Joe Friday, Eliot Ness, Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and all the other Boy Scout straight arrow Fibbies. Well, those guys are all characters written to imply perfection in a button down white shirt and a suit to go to a ballgame.

McCabe is more flawed than they are, but I find him completely believable and not given to embellishment except to make for better readability.

I have no clue where all of this will go, but it makes it clear to me that McCabe is a truth teller.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. The 2nd option

[hlthe2b]

2. He is eloquent and seemingly sincere, yet restrained. All difficult given the intense scheduling

he's had the past few days. He couldn't possibly be getting much sleep...

I still don't get the whole IG report that gave Trump the ammo to fire him (and thus really screw him over). I genuinely don't know what to think about that, but he seems to have convinced himself that he was in the "right" on that score... so, ???

[Stinky The Clown]

4. The IG report is apparently central to his lawsuit against the government.

He is clearly being circumspect on that point.

[Hekate]

31. The IG report was written to a predetermined outcome set by Trump, according to McCabe...

In addition, McCabe got to see the original 4-page screed written by Trump for firing Comey-- the one we already know was scotched by his handlers. In the original text, one of Trump's reasons for firing Comey was that Comey would not fire McCabe.

[Sherman A1]

3. Or

he has a book to sell and the publishers are getting him on any and everywhere they can.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Thought one or thought two could be exclusively true no matter about the book

The book is irrelevant to the truthfulness of McCabe's story

[Sneederbunk]

5. He is doing incredible damage to Trump.

And Trump shows it.

[OliverQ]

8. Is he though? If Barr is in place to protect him

Trump may ultimately face no real damage.

[Sneederbunk]

9. I believe Barr will not protect Trump. He will protect GOP.

[lunatica]

10. There is the question of those who protect Trump

of being accessories before AND after the fact. failure to report a crime and the ex post facto law, and aiding and abetting.

Knowledge of a crime being committed but not reporting it. Failure to report a crime after it has been committed or helping the criminal hide evidence after the crime is committed. Deliberately derailing a criminal investigation would lead to them being convicted of crimes.

[BigmanPigman]

7. I watched four, including Nicole Wallace on MSNBC just now

and during each interview I am more certain that this person is 100% credible. Today he said that the fucking moron wrote in a 4 page "rambling statement" about why he fired Comey. It isn't the statement Rosenstein did. In it tRump said he fired Comey partly for not firing McCabe as he was instructed to do. The Donald never liked him and wanted him out from the start. This was way before any other BS reasons for firing him came about. Nicole did a good interview today.

[Cetacea]

13. Saw that. And that he ingeniously added Trumpf to an existing Counter Intel probe

...making it virtually impossible for Rosenstein or anyone else to shut it down.

[BigmanPigman]

16. And he knows that Mueller is giving the states a lot of cases

and over the years even the smallest players in this "national threat" will be investigated. That made me feel a lot better. I want all of these crooks charged and no one to get let off the hook due to the sheer number of criminals being overwhelming.

[Cetacea]

20. Yes

[2naSalit]

37. Thus the reason for packing the courts as afast as turtle can.

[BigmanPigman]

39. Good point...I guess we will never see real justice for decades now.

[2naSalit]

40. Only time will tell.

[world wide wally]

11. I will lay any odds that McCabe's story has more truth to it than Trump's

[wishstar]

12. We will hear more from him as his lawsuit concludes and he can speak more freely

I find him a very credible and admirable public servant who was doing his best and got swept up and then punished by the malignant Trump maelstrom.

He recused himself from Hillary probe until his wife's campaign ended. Then when he did take over the Hillary probe he concluded that no criminal charges should be brought against Hillary. The IG case against him centers on how he "leaked" to media the information that FBI had been investigating the Clinton Foundation. He was trying to push back against media suggestions that perhaps the FBI was going easy on Clintons by not investigating.

Then after the Comey firing McCabe repeatedly pushed Rosenstein to appoint a Special Counsel when Rosenstein was wavering and uncertain and there was no guarantee a new Trump FBI head would pursue the investigations. He revealed today that he purposely wrapped the Trump obstruction and Trump counterintelligence investigations altogether into the Trump Campaign/Russia case so it was all transferred to Mueller in a package so FBI and DOJ officials couldn't shut down the Trump-focused parts of probe.

[OnDoutside]

14. 2nd option, but I think he has little time for Rosenstein, apart from getting there in

the end by appointing Mueller.

[lillypaddle]

15. Agree 100%, Stinky

Really makes me sad and mad how many innocent lives trump has ruined. I want to see him go down HARD.

[erronis]

47. HARD and SLOW. And his cohorts. Family, funders, enablers, and puppeteers.

The easy way out is for all of those people to magically disappear. Maybe helo rides or maybe dachas in a putinesqua resort.

The better way is prisons, public trials, naming names, casting the nets wide.

Eventually the solution will probably include getting money ($s and roubles/etc.) out of politics.

[Honeycombe8]

17. He' talking too much too soon,some things that I don't think should be told to the public @this time

I'm guessing he's getting paid and needs the money? I'm glad to get the info, but it doesn't help Mueller's case, and it's nothing that changes anything for the public's perception, but it's giving the paranoid Trumpers "deep state" fodder, and has put Rosenstein in serious danger of all sorts of retaliation by Trump.

[Mr. Sparkle]

18. He does seem like a strait-laced guy and his interviews are not what i expected.

He always goes to the edge in interviews but he wont come out and say whether trump is guilty or not.

[eleny]

19. "He has created a plot..."

Or he's been relating circumstances as he experienced them. The word plot suggests fiction. I'm not on that page right now.

[Stinky The Clown]

36. That is option one. I think everyone sees option 2 (after the OR) as where we are.

[eleny]

48. Yeah

Skepticism isn't a bad thing. But he sure seems convincing today.

[grantcart]

21. There is absolute proof that he didn't make up a plot

Contemporary Memos.

The guy is solid and straight arrow.

[magicarpet]

22. trDump is a Mafioso Thug,.. you cross Donnie and don't show full and blind loyalty....

..... Donnie the Thug will fuck you over real good. Relentlessly and vindictively is The Donald's modus operandi when he seeks to get even for a perceived wrong done to him.

It is akin to being pushed into a meat grinder,.. nothing of substance comes out the other end but a life that is equal to ground up pulp and mush,.. he seeks to destroy and damage beyond comprehension.

trDump is a deranged sociopath empty vessel totally devoid of human compassion. The only thing that excites him is greed for obscene riches and the attainment of absolute power so his plunderings are beyond the reach of the law.

[ginnyinWI]

30. The orange menace is only comfortable

around other criminals.

[pdsimdars]

23. I've only seen snippets except on Lawrence O'Donnell, which I have heard is the best

and I think he exemplifies the kind of person I would want engaged in the task of keeping the country safe in a non-partisan way. Great guy!

[2naSalit]

38. His talk with Stephen Colbert was good

He was able to loosen up a little, he has a sense of humor.

[llmart]

49. He had a lengthy interview on Sunday's CBS 60 Minutes.

He spelled it all out for people who may not be as involved in politics as we are here on DU. I believe him. His wife was also on and they recalled how degrading Trump was when talking about his wife and you could see McCabe was really upset about that. Trump apparently referred told McCabe his wife was a loser. Then said, "What is it like to be married to a loser?" It was pretty awful.

[Claritie Pixie]

24. McCabe said his book and public speaking have been fully vetted by the FBI.

He said the process to get his book published took months.

[Lonestarblue]

25. He seems completely credible.

Nicole Wallace’s interview with him today was especially good. Given what we know about Trump and the people surrounding him, McCabe looks like a Boy Scout. Trump lies daily, and the fact that his best friends are people like Roger Stone and Tom Barrack says a lot about the illegal acts he has gotten away with his whole life. When you’re a white-collar criminal, then the job of president is just another opportunity.

[samnsara]

26. hes Joe Friday thru and thru

[Hekate]

27. Did you see him on Nicolle Wallace today? On the panel after he left, Frank Figluzzi seemed...

...touched by joy. I've never seen him like that -- he is always so shadowed and burdened. Today, he was lit up from within.

According to Fig, McCabe revealed something new in the green room and during the interview: that when it became evident that Trump needed to have an investigation opened into his behavior vis a vis Russia McCabe added his name to the already-existing Russia investigation that had been ongoing since before election day 2016.

In so doing, the investigation of Trump was inserted into a high level FBI operation that already had all the necessary tools in place (including wiretapping, as it happens) to go as far as necessary.

The panel placed great stress on an 8-day period in May 2017, during which McCabe stood in the breech making sure certain things got done. I have to go back and rewatch that panel, but I think it was the interval between Comey's firing and McCabe's firing that Mueller was appointed and a bunch of personnel who had been working on the investigation were transferred over to him in a separate building.

Stay tuned.

[iluvtennis]

28. To me, he falls in 2nd category. nt

[ChiTownDenny]

29. I'm not shedding any tears for McCabe.

Public statements from former FBI Director James Comey, as well as an internal investigation focusing on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, have shed light on the extent to which leaks from the Bureau influenced a series of late-October decisions that damaged Hillary Clinton’s chances in the 2016 election.

Pressure from the FBI officials investigating the Clinton Foundation, who leaked their frustrations to the press, affected both Comey’s decision to make his late-October announcement that the Clinton email probe had been reopened, and according to the Department of Justice Inspector General, McCabe’s decision to publicly confirm the existence of the Clinton Foundation probe to The Wall Street Journal. Both decisions were made under a torrent of conservative criticism, from Trump himself, who called the Clinton email inquiry “rigged,” and from the conservative press, which speculated that the Bureau was deliberately going easy on Clinton.

In each case, FBI officials violated Justice Department policy against disclosing sensitive information about investigations close to an election, and in each case they did so to the disadvantage of the Democratic candidate, while the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia remained safely confidential. In aggregate, those choices produced a series of disclosures by FBI officials that were politically damaging for Clinton, even as the Bureau held its silence about its investigation of whether the Trump campaign was aiding an influence operation carried out by a hostile foreign power.

[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/comey-mccabe-fbi-clinton/558200/|

[Kurt V.]

45. this. this. this.

[bluestarone]

32. Agree

2nd option here to! Gotta feel for this guy. I think he's sincere.

[Kurt V.]

33. even if he is telling the truth, its 3 years too late. fuck him.

[iluvtennis]

34. Just heard someone on Ari Melber show say, you can't trust him

cuz he’s under investigation by IG and he lied to IG, so you can’t trust anything McCabe says.

I call BS.

Why didn’t one of the other talking heads bring up Trump’s constant lying and Trump can’t be be
believed.

I’m so tired of the false narrative regarding Trump.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. Matt Schlapp

He's the worst.

Fuck him.

[UniteFightBack]

46. Whenever someone says this I say yeah and how many times has rump lied? Yeah I'll go with the

other guy thanks.

[procon]

41. On the plus side, he has the opportunity to rub Trump's nose

in it in front of millions of TV viewers.

[Hamlette]

42. Isn't McCabe's biggest blockbuster that the FBI investigated/is investigating Trump as a traitor?

As his interview with Colbert made clear, the Lester Holt interview was so shocking anyone in law enforcement would have investigated Trump as a spy/traitor.

Everybody at the FBI knows Russia, our sworn enemy, interfered with our elections to elect "their man" and their man goes on TV and says he fired the head of the FBI because the FBI is investigating Russia.

As McCabe says, why would a president shut down an investigation into our enemy? Of course the FBI is going to add Trump to the ongoing investigation.

When you think of it that way, its not really a bombshell. Or am I missing something?

[mitch96]

43. I'm curious who is gonna write the next book about this scandal... Peter Strzok ?

When he testified he was HOT!!! I was impressed...
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[louseb]

44. Mixed feelings about McCabe and Comey.

Both of them undermined HRC and helped elect Trump and now asking for fair treatment