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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:11 PM Aug 2020

From Andrew McCabe:

Last edited Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)

Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe said in response to my reporting that had he known Mueller was not conducting the counterintelligence investigation into Trump, he would have pushed for the FBI to do it. He gave me this statement.






Edited to add:

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded the FBI had not cleared the threshold needed to conduct a counterintel investigation into the president's ties to Russia. Rosenstein believed the FBI had acted far to hastily to open investigation as it grieved firing of director Comey.



I think we're going to have to wait to see why Muller didn't investigate instead of jumping to conclusions. We are only starting to get the story.
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Volaris

(10,260 posts)
2. If mueller was told 'DONT do the CoIntel stuff, FBI is gonna do that.',
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:33 PM
Aug 2020

And then FBI was told, essentially, the same thing about mueller, this looks real real bad for Rosenstein. But heres the thing..even if it couldn't ever be used for a domestic criminal proceeding on it's own, the outside-looking IC (CIA, NSA, Etc) HAVE ALL this Intel already. My bet would be that in the next month or so now, some of it starts to leak; they know full well what a complicitous ass trump truly is re: russian IntelServices, and I'd bet like hell they're pissed as all git at him for telling the american people their hard work was all bullshit for the last 4 years.

Cetacea

(7,367 posts)
8. I have to disagree.
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:51 PM
Aug 2020

Barr was the main problem though he was not the only one. We still don't have access to the full report, nor the extremely important grand jury material.
Rudy and media pushed the notion that the investigation was dragging on too long (hello, Whitewater?) .
Members of congress were repeating over and over that their constituents did.not care about it.

He was ham stringed by the legal opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted, and that affected everything.
His warning to the American people was that Russia is still doing it "even as we sit here" and that every American should be aware and very concerned. Nobody seemed to listen.

LymphocyteLover

(5,601 posts)
18. IMO Mueller was threatened in some way and his hands were tied. We are dealing with mobsters here
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 04:18 PM
Aug 2020

the Trump-Russia crime family. It's supremely dangerous and fucked up.

Funtatlaguy

(10,856 posts)
20. Muellers post investigation testimony showed his weakness.
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 05:15 PM
Aug 2020

Both physically and mentally.
He should not have been in charge.

agingdem

(7,754 posts)
5. No..we may not know all
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:39 PM
Aug 2020

but at least we know something about Russian interference...and we're onto Trump and Russia... Mueller wasn't the Mighty Mouse we thought he was (Here I come to save the day!!) because he was weakened from the onset... if Rod Rosenstein thought kissing Trump's fat ass, hiding evidence, limiting the scope of the investigation, and allowing Trump to beat up Andrew McCabe was his ticket to the big leagues and a career topper, well, he was wrong...he was expendable and nothing special...Rosenstein will be vilified the rest of his life...good....

Cetacea

(7,367 posts)
4. So true. Everyone, and I mean everyone, thought that Mueller had free reign
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:39 PM
Aug 2020

I think that Barr killed it, as this "little' detail did not surface until just before the report was "finished".

Bev54

(9,958 posts)
12. I don't think we are jumping to conclusions at all
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 03:57 PM
Aug 2020

Most of us knew something was wrong with the investigation and Schiff kept trying to tell us and nobody was listening. I always felt something was wrong but now I understand. I never trusted Rosenstein but I did McCabe. What I didn't count on was how deceptive Rosenstein was to McCabe. I wish though Mueller had said as much in plain English when he was before congress. We are not jumping to conclusions, rather learning our unease was well founded.

Takket

(21,424 posts)
14. we'll never get to the truth as long as the person being investigated gets to conduct the
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 04:01 PM
Aug 2020

investigation.

The ties between DOJ and the executive branch should have been severed after Nixon and we as a country blew that. if there weren't some GOP members in the senate during nixon's admin that had a spine and sense of country he would have gotten away with everything too. unfortunately those GOP members no linger exist.

 

Tiger8

(432 posts)
19. The Center of Gravity - Must be to PROSECUTE
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 04:29 PM
Aug 2020

Republicans want to hide this.

Investigation done, now they must prosecute Rosenstein! Let the burden of proof be on Republicans to give reasons why he should not be prosecuted...and this entire clusterfuck exposed, with the guilty parties hung out to dry.

bucolic_frolic

(42,663 posts)
21. Call me a Deep State fan
Sun Aug 30, 2020, 05:34 PM
Aug 2020

A political state that cannot protect its sovereignty is ripe for the picking. Where did our national resolve go? Why is it on hold these 4 years, and why has it been eroding for decades? We ain't what we used to be.

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