Andrew McCabe Is A Liar – And the Media is a Willful Collaborator
June 5, 2020
Over at UncoverDC I have article posted from earlier today about Rod Rosenstein’s testimony two days ago before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and an “story” yesterday by Benjamin Wittes at Lawfareblog concerning that testimony. Wittes focused on the disputes between Andy McCabe’s version of events on two significant issues, and the answers given by Rosenstein to questions during the hearing on those two matters.
There was some material I came across in writing that story that I only included slightly, or didn’t elaborate on simply because I was trying to finish the piece and get it published. Then after reading it, and looking a bit more at some of the historical background I had examined earlier, I was struck by how McCabe’s OBVIOUS lies – which Wittes peddles like they come were etched in stone at the Burning Bush – spawned intense media interest and non-stop stories around the time of his 60 Minutes interview in February 2019.
But ANY SMALL BIT OF LEGITIMATE reporting would have revealed how specious McCabe’s claims were. We now have the benefit of hindsight to fact-check McCabe’s tales and conclude they were obviously untrue when he made them – notwisthstanding Wittes continuing to traffic McCabe’s fiction – but the evidence of the falsehoods was right in front of the media at the time. They ignored it because accepting McCabe’s claims at face value let them run rabidly anti-Trump stories for 4 days.
Let me set this up a bit so the readers can keep the context in mind when these “discussions” supposedly took place, then we’ll take a wrecking ball to McCabe – be patient (no skipping to the end).
Andy McCabe became Associate Director and Deputy Director of the FBI – the No. 3 and No. 2 positions in the Bureau – after James Comey because Director. That doesn’t happen unless Comey hand-picked McCabe from the field of available candidates.
A week after Rod Rosenstein was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he sat in a meeting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump, and told President Trump he needed to fire Jim Comey. President Tump told Session and Rosenstein to put their recommendation and reasons in writing and send it to him. On May 7, 2017, Trump fired Comey.
The firing shook DC – and the FBI – and no person more so than Andy McCabe. Comey was his patron. Comey pulled him along to the No. 2 position. McCabe had come under national media scrutiny over the issues of his wife’s failed political campaign as a Democrat, and her connections to Clinton long-time close confident Terry McAuliffe. With Comey gone, now McCabe was exposed.
And Rosenstein was to blame for it all.
How can McCabe see it otherwise unless he agreed with Rosenstein’s views about Comey – and that seems “unlikely.”
Next we have a 9 day period during which Washington being consumed with the post-Comey firing firestorm of allegations of coverup of the Trump-Russia collusion that stole the election from Hillary Clinton. On the 10th day Rod Rosenstein made a sudden announcement that Robert Mueller, former FBI Director under Bush 43 and Obama, had agreed to take over the Trump-Russia investigation as “Special Counsel”.
McCabe told 60 Minutes that he met with Pres. Trump the day Comey was fired, and when he returned to the FBI he met with his senior executives and instructed them to look at everything related to the Trump-Russia investigation so that it would be on “solid” ground in case he was “removed quickly, or reassigned or fired.” Clearly McCabe was concerned about what Rosenstein might do to him next. This resulted in a criminal investigation of Trump being opened at McCabe’s direction.
https://www.redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/06/05/andrew-mccabe-is-a-liar-and-the-media-is-a-willful-collaborator/