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Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation
alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel.
The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings (including with
President Donald Trump) held from January 24, 2017 to May 21, 2017 โ a critical time period ranging from just before the FBI sprung an interview on
retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to just after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. The memos were more fully declassified through efforts by Trump
and FBI Director Kash Patel earlier this month.
McCabe was a stalwart ally of since-fired FBI Director James Comey, coordinated closely with since-fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok on the launch
and the conduct of the flawed and politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation, and relied heavily upon disgraced FBI lawyer Lisa Page as his close confidante.
McCabe and Comey had pushed in December 2016 to include British ex-spy Christopher Steele's debunked dossier in the body of the 2017 Intelligence
Community Assessment on alleged Russian meddling, but they were thwarted by the NSA and CIA. The dossier was eventually included in an annex to the assessment.
By early 2017, McCabe and the FBI knew that the Steele dossier was baseless. The FBI had offered Steele an โincentiveโ in October 2016 of up to $1
million if he could prove the allegations in his discredited anti-Trump dossier, but the former MI6 agent was unable to back up his claims. An FBI
spreadsheet from December 2016 showed nothing of any substance from the dossier could be verified. The FBI had unearthed nothing derogatory on Flynn.
And an early 2017 interview of Steeleโs main source โ Igor Danchenko โ undercut the dossierโs collusion claims.
Yet despite the huge setbacks for Crossfire Hurricane, McCabeโs newly-declassified memos show how McCabe facilitated the FBIโs targeting of Flynn,
met with Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials about the Flynn allegations, refused to publicly shoot down false media stories on
collusion, opened a collusion investigation into Trump himself after Comey was fired, kept the Trump-Russia investigation alive and escalated it as the
acting FBI director, helped successfully push for a special counsel to take the reins, and more.