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herding cats

(19,549 posts)
6. It was McCabe, the now interim FBI Director, who went to Priebus
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:23 PM
May 2017

FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe may have violated multiple existing Justice Department rules controlling contacts between the bureau and White House officials when they spoke earlier this month with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus about their ongoing investigation into Russia’s influence operation against the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to several former senior Justice Department officials.

The first questionable contact came when McCabe spoke with Priebus for five minutes after a 7:30 a.m. meeting at the White House on Feb. 15 on an unrelated intelligence issue. The day before, the New York Times had reported that Trump’s campaign and other Trump associates had multiple contacts with known agents of Russian intelligence in the year before the election.

At the White House meeting, McCabe told Priebus, ‘I want you to know story in NYT is BS," according to senior Administration officials who briefed reporters on Feb. 24.

Priebus asked McCabe what could be done to push back, saying the White House was “getting crushed” on the story. McCabe demurred, and then later called back to say, “We'd love to help but we can't get into the position of making statements on every story.”


http://time.com/4682791/fbi-russia-reince-priebus-andrew-mccabe-justice-rules/

Perhaps you misunderstood Rachel?

drray23

(7,587 posts)
7. yes she did but she was talking about mccabe
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:23 PM
May 2017

i.e the deputy FBI director, not deputy attorney general. Its easy to get confused since most of them are corrupt...

Here is a link to an article about that.

mccabe

 

Blue Meany

(1,947 posts)
5. So he is the kind of fellow who doesn't mind stepping on the
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:18 PM
May 2017

faces of colleagues to advance his career. He will do well under Sessions and Trump

 

NewRedDawn

(790 posts)
8. Thanks for the clarification
Wed May 10, 2017, 10:30 PM
May 2017

She kept saying Deputy Director of the FBI Rod Rosenstein, which you said & I know is McCabe. Rosenstein is deputy Attorney General.

chowder66

(9,011 posts)
9. This is from the WH's point of view which cannot be trusted re: McCabe
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:51 AM
May 2017

It could be true, it could be misconstrued information, it could be false.

"The conversations between Priebus, McCabe, and Comey have taken center stage because of Thursday’s CNN report, which gave the impression that the White House had pressured the FBI to denounce the Times story. Trump’s team disputes this account, arguing that the initiative came from the FBI. The White House claims that on the morning after the Times published its story, FBI officials—apparently McCabe—told Priebus that the Times story was false. Priebus then asked the FBI to state publicly, or at least tell reporters on background, that “there had been no contacts” between Russia and the Trump people. The FBI refused.

Preliminary signs suggest Priebus is fudging what the FBI told him about the Times story. On Meet the Press, Priebus alluded to Comey’s Feb. 17 briefing of the Senate Intelligence Committee—“I know what the intelligence committees in the House and the Senate were told by the FBI”—to support his categorical dismissal of the Times story. Sen. Angus King, who was at the briefing, responded that he was “surprised” Priebus chose to be “that categorical.” And other public officials who contacted reporters to shoot down the Times story on behalf of the White House weren’t nearly as absolute. According to the Post, “The officials broadly dismissed Trump associates’ contacts with Russia as infrequent and inconsequential. But the officials would not answer substantive questions about the issue.”

The FBI has declined to comment on any of these reports, including the original Times story and Priebus’ assertions of FBI support. In theory, this keeps the bureau apolitical. In practice, it lets Trump continue to lie without being directly exposed. In his speech to CPAC on Friday, Trump said of news organizations that publish critical stories:"


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/02/it_s_hard_to_trust_reince_priebus_fbi_claims.html

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
12. It was McCabe who did this IIRC... RMS pointed out McCabe ... To your point Rosenstien has NOT YET..
Thu May 11, 2017, 11:59 AM
May 2017

... come out and officially called Red Dons claims that the whole thing initiated with Rosenstien a big pile of shit.

Right now Comey's firing is "officially" on the neck Rosenstein

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