VOX: Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump
The acting head of the bureau told top officials to prepare.
Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe told several of the highest-ranking managers of the bureau they should consider themselves possible witnesses in any investigation into whether President Donald Trump engaged in obstruction of justice, according to two senior federal law enforcement officials.
McCabe has told colleagues that he too is a potential witness in the probe of whether Trump broke the law by trying to thwart the FBI's Russia investigation and the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Two senior federal law enforcement officials have told me that the new revelations illustrate why they believe the potential case against Trump is stronger than outsiders have thought.
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Update: FBI officials warned they might have to testify against Trump: report (The Hill)
WNU Editor: The leak appears to be coming from Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's office .... the same Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe that President Trump wants fired .... Trump questions why Jeff Sessions didn't fire acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe (Washington Examiner). Demands for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe recusal/removal have been building up since it became it known that his wife received campaign money from a Hillary Clinton ally last year. All that I can say is that if this VOX report is true, it is more evidence that the "intelligence establishment" is pushing back on President Trump. The only difference now is that they are not even hiding it anymore.
Hat tip to Fred for a heads-up on the above story.
Update #2: The expectation now is that Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe will be posted elsewhere when newly appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray has settled into his new office .... Under New Bureau Head, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe to Remain as Deputy, Despite Trump's Allegations (Newsweek).
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Nope.
Meuller's ramping up the collusion investigation.
On Monday, the RNC staff were told by their lawyers, to preserve all Campaign communications with the Trump Campaign.
Now, Mueller's probably either reached out, or the FBI legal teams, has advised Senior FBI members, that their testimony will probably be subpoenaed to corroborate Comey's testimony about Hair Twitler's ham handed attempts to obstruct justice.
Holy crap. Some times I wonder why I bother reading news any more is all sad and depressing.
I have a hard time to understand why people want Trump to be impeached (except he is not a politician). If so, they will have Pence as President who is far more extremist than Trump (who is none at all)....Where is the gain?
Do not fear. There is no effort to prove the claim of collusion. Just talk. You have been led and will continue to be led until to swamp has been drained. It will be an exhaustive process but in the end Americans will know who stands for them in government. For now just watch and listen.
LMFAO,
Pence is up to his eyeballs in it, and like Spiro, will be one of the first brought down.
There won't be any impechment proceedings until after the 2018 midterms.
The Republican Senate has only just started to game out an Article 25, but right now, because of the Wingnut's Caucus, would require reaching across the isle, to the Democrats,
Which right now, makes it a wash as far as the 3018 Elections go.
“I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia…
except for:
the Flynn thing,
and the Manafort thing
and the Tillerson thing
and the Sessions thing
and the Kushner thing
and the Carter Page thing
and the Roger Stone thing
and the Felix Sater thing
and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
and the Rosneft thing
and the Gazprom thing
and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
and the Azerbajain thing
and the “I love Putin” thing
and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
and the Sergey Kislyak thing
and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
and the Russian Business Interests thing
and the Emoluments Clause thing
and the Alex Schnaider thing
and the hack of the DNC thing
and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
and the Cyprus bank thing
and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
and the election hacking thing
and the GOP platform change on the Ukraine thing
and the Steele Dossier thing
and the Leninist Bannon thing
and Sally Yates prevented from testifying thing
and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
and Trump’s reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing …
and Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing …
and the Chaffetz thing,....
and Session's non-recusal from the Russian thing after promising to recuse himself after lying to Congress about the Russian's thing,
and the Yate's firing,
and the Comey firing,
and the Bharara firing,
and the Larov/Kislyak/Trump meeting,
and the Russian Photographer thing,
and the Indicted Stone for the Russian Thing talking to Trump about firing Comey thing,
and Trump's Spokeswoman, Saunder's saying the Comey Firing was about shutting down the Russia/Trump Investigations thing,
and Lying Spice in the bushes with the candlestick,
and the Trump Lawyer's "No Russians" letter by the Russian Law Firm of the Year,
and the Comey/Trump/Tapes threat,
and the Larov/Russia trolling the US thing,
and Trump's Dirty Fucking Hippie "Peace in the Ukraine" Flower Power tweet after meeting Larov thing,
and the Guelen kidnapping and rendition thing,
and the Cohen/Artimenko/Sater Ukraine deal thing,
and the Eric Trump/Golf Courses/Russian Backers thing,
and the "Comey told me three times" thing,
and the 180 current and former Attorney General's letter calling for a special prosecutor,
and the Dutch TV ( Zembla) Investigative documentary, "The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: Part 1, The Russians",
and Deutsche Bank executive William S. Broeksmit's "suicide",
and the sudden settlement of the Prevezon LLC money laundering case, in the wake of Attorney General Preet Bharara's firing by Trump,
and the "thinking" then publicly saying that "Loyalty Oaths" to Hair Furour by Government Bureaucrats in violation of the Constitution is "normal" thing,
and Trump sharing classified intel with the Russian's during their meeting that was not cleared to be shared with the Russians,
and the War Zone Blood Diamonds thing,
and the Putin asked and Trump "couldn't say no" Kislyak thing,
and the Manifort tax free, $3.5 million dollar open term "loan" from the Russian Mob connected Bank of Cyprus Numbered Account,
and the Comey Meeting Memo noting that Trump tried to shut down the Flynn Investigation the day after Flynn was fired.
and the last minute Trump Toronto VEB/Schnaider bankruptcy bail out, while Putin was Chairman of the VEB Board.
and "the Family"/McCarthy/Ryan tape leak discussing who's on Putin's payroll,
and the SGM/Williams/IRI/Pence Political Consulting thing,
and the Flynn/Turkey cancellation of the US Militaries' anti-ISIS plan
and Flynn's lawyer rejecting the Senate subpena,
and Flynn taking the 5th,
and the Dana Rohabatcher thing,
and the Coates/Rogers thing,
and the Flynn/Svetlana Lokhova/GRU thing,
and the "they said I said Israel thing, but I never said it was Israel, but it was Israel," thing,
and the Russian disinfo op against the FBI faking a AG Lynch email,
and Trump lawyering up,
and Trump's lawyer Kazowitz also being Putin's Sberbank's lawyer,
and Session's non-disclosure of contacts with the Russians on his #86 NSC form,
and the reports of the FSB discussions on how to best leverage Flynn and Manifort,
and the Trump Administration's ramping up and full staffing of the Trump/Russia "war room" to push back against the Investigations,
while 445 Federal Appointee's havn't even been nominated by the Trump Administration, and remain vacant, (80%),
and Nevins/Stone/Mast/Florida GOP/Guccifer2.0/Russian collusion in Florida using the hacked and stolen DNC data sets.
and Pence being scared that Comey and McCabe also took notes of the conversations where he tried to get them to drop Trump/Russia
and Manifort's post resignation collusion with Prebius and other Team Trump members to get the FBI investigation quashed,
and the Kushner/Kisliak/Flynn meeting to set up secret, secure communications between Team Trump and the Kremlin using the Russians secure diplomatic channels,
and that the same meeting set up the Blackwater Prince's secret meeting in the Seychelles,
and the FBI now investigating the Campaign meeting at the Mayflower hotel between Kislyak, Sessions, Kushner and Trump.
and Team Trump attempts to immediately lift the Russian Sanctions only to be stopped by the Republican House and Senate,
and Meuller and the FBI are taking over a criminal Manifort Corruption investigation that predates Trump/Russia.
and Trump asking both Coate's and Pompeo to tell Comey to shut down the Trump/Russia investigation.
and Comey demanded that Session's stop Trumps attempts to interfere in the Investigation,
and Comey's Testimony of Trumps attempts to Subvert Justice,
and Trump's nomination of Chris Wray as FBI Director who was not only Christie's Bridgegate/ Missing Cell Phone lawyer, but part of Russian Oil Company Rosneft's law team.
and Eric Trump confirming in an interview, that yes, Comey was right, Trump did indeed tell Comey to stop the Trump/Russia investigations.
and Trump's Lawyer, Kasowitz's admission to friends, that he convinced Trump to fire AG Pareet Bahara, because his investigation into Russian Mob money laundering, was going to "take Trump down".
and the 39 State Russian attempts to hack US Election systems, so severe Obama used the hotline to Russia,
and Mueller is now directly investigating Trump for Obstruction of Justice,
and Richard Burt, a paid Lobbiest for the Russians, stating that he was present a two working dinners with Kisylak and Sessions, that Session's has not disclosed,
and the Republican Senate making sure Russian Sanctions passed with a veto proof majority because they don't trust Trump on Russia,
and VP Pence lawyering up,
and Cohen, Trumps lawyer, has now lawyered up,
and the White House Special Counsel has ordered the Trump Transition Team to preserve all documents and emails.
and the House Committee's subpoenaing the Trump Campaigns IT guy, Pascale,
and Session's has lawyered up,
and Trump's FBI nominee has "scrubbed" his resume of Russian ties,
and the FBI is now investigating Bijan Kian, Gen. Flynn's partner,
and Trump asked the NSC for "deliverables" that he can give to Putin at the G20 Meeting,
and DJT Jr's meeting with Russian Mob and Government lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, ostensibly over Russian Orphans, then Hillary dirt, but Natalia Veselnitskaya role is to get the Magnitsky Act revoked, prevent EU adoption of the Magnitsky Act's provisions, so that Putin and his Mob Cronies can keep stashing stolen Russian Tax money offshore,
and DJT Jr's lawyering up with well known Mob/Hacking Criminal Defence Lawyer Alan Futerfas.
and DJT Jr's release of his emails showing attempted collusion with Russia in election interference,
and the Trump/ Agaralov/ Chaika triangle,
and after resisting a court order for day's, Trump's Justice Department released only one page of Atty. Gen. Jeff Session's SF86 National Security Application Form, in which he reported that he had no contacts whatsoever with Agents of Foreign Governments for the past 7 years. In other words, blatant lies.
and Jared Kushner's sudden updating of his SF86 form, with the reported number contacts with Agent's of a Foreign Government, going from zero, to over 100 names and 490 meetings,
and President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Justice’s criminal division, Brian Benczkowski used to represent a major Russian bank whose owners have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
and the RNC has ordered RNC Staff to preserve all communications and documents regarding the 2016 Election, in advance of subpenas.
and Trump personally dictated the statement in which Trump Jr. said he and the Russian lawyer had “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children”,
and Meuller's convened a second Grand Jury to investigate the Trump Campaign,
and it's now been revealed that Trump Campaigner Carter Page has been under FISA Warrant surveillance since 2014,
and Flynn's "updated" his SC68 form yet again, to report involvement with CambridgeAnaletica, the targetted infometic's group known for "hacking" dozens of elections,
and Manifort, while Trumps Campaign Chairman, was recorded by the NSA coordinating emails dumps, fake news and bot campaigns against Hillary with Russian Agents,
LMFAO
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