Both McCabe and Rosenstein are compromised

[SHRED]

No one with legitimacy is watching the hen house.
I just hope there are career agents who can save our democracy.

[lapucelle]

1. How is McCabe compromised? N/T

[SHRED]

2. He went to Priebus

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

[montanacowboy]

3. I have never been able to understand

what that was all about. I remember at the time, WTF? Now it is even weirder. Yes, both are compromised. I don't trust Rosenstein as far as I could throw him.

[still_one]

8. That is according to WH "senior administration officials" There is no credibility with what this WH

says. I wouldn't trust anything that this administration says, and especially the story that McCabe told Priebus that "the NYT story was BS".

In the letter where trump fires Comey, trump says he was told 3 times by Comey, that Comey told him he was not being investigated for any Russian interactions", and that simply is not true.

I am not saying McCabe, or the FBI can trusted, but I sure know anything that comes out from the trump administration cannot be trusted, and Times source is trump's senior administration officials. At least that is how I read it

[Zambero]

4. Yes, same question.

Also, Rosenstein appears to have duped or coerced into taking "credit" for the Comey firing recommendation, but I don't see how this amounts to being compromised, on the order of Flynn's dealing with Russia for example.

[SHRED]

5. Here

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

[lapucelle]

18. Which administration officials conducted the briefing?

"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."

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

The CNN story is framed a bit differently.

"...the officials said McCabe "asked for five minutes alone" and called the reports "BS."

The senior administration officials said Priebus expressed his concern to McCabe that Priebus was "getting crushed" on the story and asked him, "What am I supposed to do?" McCabe then called Priebus to say the FBI could not comment on the reports.

The officials said that Comey later called Priebus to echo McCabe's message, that he believed the story to be inaccurate, but that the FBI could not "get into the position of making statements on every story."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/24/politics/white-house-denies-wrongdoing/

[OnDoutside]

20. Has McCabe been asked that question today ?

[delisen]

6. Rosenstein does seem to have been used.

[panader0]

7. I agree about McCabe, but not so much about Rosenstein.

I think Rosenstein got played by Trump, and when he saw that Trump
was trying to put the weight on him, he threatened to resign. If I was him,
I would be very pissed. Hopefully, that will work against Trump.

[SHRED]

9. Threatened to resign after the fact but didnt

Makes zero sense to me.

He could redeem himself by doing this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029047346

[uponit7771]

13. Rosenstein is pushing back on the story that it wasn't him who initiated the firing per MSNBC...

... seeing if it wasn't him he could easily just say I didn't start this shit and dare Red Don to fire him too

[tblue37]

16. Maybe he is waiting for 3 "business days." nt

[LaydeeBug]

17. because it's better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in. NOT compromised. nt

[spanone]

10. he is saddled with being the guy who gave trump the impetus to fire comey...and has not resigned

so i have to conclude that he's in with trump.

[SHRED]

11. Yup

[uponit7771]

12. Then Rosenstein can easily come out and say he didn't initiate any of this and if Red Don fires him

... then there's no way he'd be able to hold of an indipendent presecurtor

[SHRED]

15. We will see

He better do something soon in the way of a public statement.

[LaydeeBug]

19. He *did*. He threatened to resign. It sent the signal that this was bullshit.

[brush]

21. Threatening to resign doesn't mean sh_t. If you have any integrity, you stop taking...

the paycheck and actually resign.

Until then, he has no credibility and is just another one of trump's stooges to be used whenever needed.

"Put him in the basement with Kelly Ann Conway so we know where he is when we need him again."

[chowder66]

14. We need to be more scrupulous. There is a lot of propaganda from the WH

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

[lapucelle]

22. I agree.

Republicans have been spinning the "McCabe is compromised" narrative for quite a while. It's deflection. Just Google "mccabe wife mccauliffe" and see what comes up.

http://www.newsweek.com/fbi-actingCauliffe-director-andrew-mccabe-clinton-emails-606801

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/10/politics/grassley-mccabe-director/

[chowder66]

23. Yep and that was what got me thinking about it plus the fact that the Admin lies and lies and lies

Wall Street Journal Hypes Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s Donations To State Senate Candidate With Indirect Ties To Clinton. The Wall Street Journal attempted to scandalize the FBI investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails by tying political donations made by Clinton ally and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s political action committee to the wife of an FBI official. The Journal reported on October 23 that McAuliffe “gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.” The article notes that the FBI official’s “supervision of the Clinton email case in 2016 wasn’t seen as a conflict or an ethics issue because his wife’s campaign was over by” the time of the investigation:

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/10/24/conservative-media-run-wall-street-journals-nothingburger-clinton-pseudo-scandal/214067