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Soon after speaking to President Trump about the firing of his boss James Comey, Andrew McCabe, who became the bureau's acting director, began obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president and his ties to Russia. In his first television interview since his own firing, McCabe tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley he wanted those inquiries to be documented and underway so they would be difficult to quash without raising scrutiny.

"I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion," McCabe tells Pelley in the interview. "That were I removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace."

The interview with the veteran FBI agent who rose to acting director of the bureau will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, February 17 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS.

"I wanted to make sure that our case was on solid ground and if somebody came in behind me and closed it and tried to walk away from it, they would not be able to do that without creating a record of why they made that decision," McCabe said.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...-trump-60-minutes/er


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It's on tonight for those who might be interested.

Related: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...sidered-taping-trump


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Anyone watch?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...tigation-2019-02-17/

The DOJ statement in response to the interview was carefully worded.

A remarkable phone call from Individual 1 to McCabe:


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I saw it. McCabe needs money. Lots of money.

That said, firing him hours before he would be eligible for retirement was unnecessarily petty.


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I saw it. McCabe needs money. Lots of money.

That said, firing him hours before he would be eligible for retirement was unnecessarily petty.


Petty and totally unsurprising.

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Yea, it goes along with the video I posted about the phone call to McCabe where he was grilled about why Comey was allowed to fly home on an FBI plane after he was fired.

I've been catching up on the rest of the interview; there are a bunch more videos labeled 60 Minutes Overtime. Being asked how he voted, and during a job interview for the director position, never being asked about how he might run the agency.

Head shaking.


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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...tigation-2019-02-17/


pretty petty and childish...

I wonder if they day he retires, is fired, whatever, if I 1 will ride on a US plane?


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That said, firing him hours before he would be eligible for retirement was unnecessarily petty.


yup

and of course it was a threat to all others, what 'he' could/would do...


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This is exactly what it looks like when you "run the gummint like a bizniss". At least when the CEO is a wannabe biznissman who has had more bankruptcies than Carter has pills.


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That said, firing him hours before he would be eligible for retirement was unnecessarily petty.


Well, that's exactly the kind of behavior McCabe is describing with regard to Comey.

Why is this a surprise to anyone who has watched Trump over the past 30 years. It was plain to anyone with eyes and a brain that the man is a jumble of petty neuroses and narcissistic nastiness.
 
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He is totally unfit for the job. I understand that there are supporters who feel that the ends justify the means, and this administration (not Trump himself, per se) has been able to make significant headway in rolling back regulations, packing the SCOTUS, attacking Roe v Wade, etc. But the cost of these wins is far too high, in my opinion. We are seeing an ongoing attack on the checks and balances built into our constitution. At some point, the pendulum will swing, and all these new-found powers and obfuscation methods will be used by the other side. There are larger issues here.
 
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Individual 1 never wanted to be president. He wanted to be emperor and supreme autocrat -- just like Nikolai had on that highly decorated plate. He wants to be an authoritarian dictator, just like the authoritarian dictators he buddies up with. That actually matches his lifelong pattern of how he tried to buy his way into the circle of New York wealth.

Fake dictator!


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Fake dictator!


You are wrong about that. He's a real dictator. He's just not very good at it.
 
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Quirt - Big Grin

What astonishes me is that supporters are willing to blame *everyone* else for being unfair to Trump. They've pretty much given up trying to excuse his behavior; now it's just all a conspiracy to take him down.

When will they realize it's not the rest of the world, it's him?

Democrats criticizing Trump? Haters, and sufferers of TDS.

Lifelong Republicans (thinking Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, and others) criticizing Trump? So-and-so was either a) never really a Republican or b) never a Trump supporter. Run that one past me again, please? Why aren't you asking yourself why people who have traditionally considered themselves part of the GOP finding it necessary to speak out?

Career people in the DOJ and FBI who are concidentally Republicans with at least some of them selected by Trump himself, all sharing concerns about what might be going on, are labeled as part of a coup attempt? How the hell are you supposed to make a decision about whether the 25th Amendment is appropriate without talking about it?

Aargh. I'll stop here.


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Jeff Sessions. Another "beauty". An early Trump supporter and selected to be AG by Trump. How is he not responsible for THAT?
 
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