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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis was Duty to Warn's take on FBI's corrupt McGonigal back in September 2022.
Link to tweet
A deep state double agent, working for Russia and Trump, to sabotage Mueller
Here's the Sept 2022 article that Duty to Warn linked to at the time, which provides some interesting background.
https://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-fbi-charles-mcgonigal-trump-russia-grand-jury-oleg-deripaska-2022-9
And there is nothing in the court documents or elsewhere to suggest that McGonigal behaved inappropriately during the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign. But the materials requested in the witness subpoena raise questions about whether a top FBI agent may have been tapping the connections he made during his years of public service for private gain an all-too-common practice among Washington insiders. And whatever McGonigal's actions, the fact that he has been swept up in a grand-jury investigation is highly unusual. According to a former senior official at the Justice Department who asked not to be identified, prosecutors almost never consider charges against someone so high up in the FBI. "It's very rare that former FBI people at all, and certainly former senior FBI people, wind up as grand-jury targets," the official said.
The federal scrutiny of McGonigal is especially striking given his work at the FBI. Before his retirement in 2018, McGonigal led the WikiLeaks investigation into Chelsea Manning, busted Bill Clinton's national security advisor Sandy Berger for removing classified material from a National Archives reading room, and led the search for a Chinese mole inside the CIA. In 2016, when reports surfaced that Russia had hacked the email system of the Democratic National Committee, McGonigal was serving as chief of the cybercrimes section at FBI headquarters in Washington. In that capacity, he was one of the first officials to learn that a Trump campaign official had bragged that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, sparking the investigation known as Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Later that year, FBI Director James Comey promoted McGonigal to oversee counterintelligence operations in New York.
Tetrachloride
(7,844 posts)Keep him away from windows and coffee.
rubbersole
(6,690 posts)Tetrachloride
(7,844 posts)easy way out for him.
yardwork
(61,619 posts)Highly placed people government officials colluded with a foreign nation to ensure that a particular candidate was elected to the presidency. It doesn't get any more treasonous.
Kid Berwyn
(14,905 posts)Toss in the friends of Roger Stone and add a heaping helping of NRA ammosexuality and the United States of America has a problem.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I'm stunned with this one. Just stunned!
Ms7wo7rees
msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)But the head of the investigation?!!!
WTF! Mueller didn't know? Did Andy know or suspect?
Just couldn't say it out loud to the world?
Duty to Warn fucking awesome! Now what is Garland gonna do about that office, about that investigation?
Maybe Mueller needs to be called in have little chat with Jack Smith?
glad it got exposed, glad that fucker is "being investigated", but I want to see charges and an arrest.
Laying odds it will not be likely, but I'm open to being dead wrong. In fact I won't mind being wrong at all.
dalton99a
(81,500 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,092 posts)Not a one off.