I don’t know if Andrew McCabe has stopped beating his wife
And there are things that McCabe says he doesn’t know, either. Such as:
"Do you actually believe Russians ordered Trump to fire Comey?"
McCabe: "We don't know." https://t.co/4jOjEsxI8D
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) February 19, 2019
Some of the comments to that Ace post I linked to:
You’ll have to buy my book to find out!
Do we know if McCabe has the bodies of several dead children in his basement?
We do not know.
Do we really know if Trump is an agent of Saaaaatan? Well, of course we just don’t know. Definitively.
Trump is an interdimensional vampire from the right dimension. Prove me wrong.
“We don’t know?”
Good enough for me! IMPEACH!!!!
Despite the jokes that practically write themselves, the thought that McCabe was ever head of the FBI is a very sobering one.
[ADDENDUM: An article about another of McCabe’s lies. I think the author misses the point in one respect, however, when he characterizes it as “unbelievable.” McCabe has a still-large potential market for his book among the most fervent Trump-haters, whose appetite is still huge for this sort of thing.]
Well, CIA director was a official who admitted to the recruiters he’d voted for Gus Hall.
I suspect the careers of McCabe, Sztrok, Brennan, et al are manifestations of injelitance. Look at who was in charge of their bureaux each time they received a promotion. Sztrok and McCabe were both hired in 1996. All three men who’ve run the FBI since 1993 have been troublesome characters.
McCabe is doing what he can to assist his prosecution. He really does not come across as very intelligent.
The MSM coup d’état rolls on.
Has anyone in congress called out this clown ?
“Do you actually believe…”
“We don’t know.”
So the answer to the question if he believes something is that he doesn’t know what he believes. Sounds like someone with a firm grasp of himself and what he knows. McCabe wasn’t asked if it happened but rather if he BELIEVED that it happened. He didn’t answer the question he was asked.
“Do you actually believe the Earth is flat?”
“We don’t know,” is not an answer but changing the subject by not answering what was really asked.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/04/james-clapper-leaker-liar-sleazeball.php
What’s disconcerting is that this man was in the Air Force for decades. He ran two different intelligence agencies and received three discretionary appointments from Republican presidents. So what’s he doing making himself a PR operative for partisan Democrats?
” . . . the thought that McCabe was ever head of the FBI is a very sobering one.” [Neo]
Even more so is the thought that he is probably not alone in the agency.
We can no longer “trust” agencies that are supposed to be impartial (FBI, IRS, etc.) and we now see blatant governmental refusal to follow its own law. Sanctuary declarations are but one example, and here, in Pittsburgh, the mayor and certain members of city council are actively promoting that municipalities ignore the state constitution and draft their own local restrictive gun laws.
Such actions reveal in full force the underlying criminal nature (as in Mafia) of government itself. The ruling powers are not answerable to the laws that they draft, but us regular nitwits? “Nice house, nice bank account, nice career ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
The moral imperative of believing in and respecting government is fundamental to any successful civilization, and the fact that the government, itself, undermines this puts us on the road to the anarchy of a banana republic.
It is not recent. The Trump administration has simply acted as the most recent catalyst causing masks to drop; whether we can reverse the course is not at all certain.
Look at the lunatic illogical things that Jim Comey has said and done.
With regard to Hillary’s flagrant classified doc. mishandling crimes, he said I won’t refer it for prosecution because no one would prosecute it. Because without intent it’s only been successfully prosecuted twice. What? The third time is the charm?
Never mind that they never really tried to investigate intent, or that a great many of those previous convictions didn’t have genuine intent, but instead a confession to the mechanics of the violation.
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FBI Chief Comey has a private meeting with Pres. Trump, after which he writes a detailed memo of the meeting to document it. He keeps one copy and makes another for some FBI repository of such things. This latter action unequivocally makes the doc. an official FBI work product. I learned from the Hillary affair, that all private meetings with heads of state, even ambassadors, are to be considered classified whether marked or not.
So when Comey is fired, he takes his copy with him, a crime, and later shares it with a prof. knowing that that the prof. will send it to the media. Another classified material crime, with intent.
Later, he tells everyone what he did. It’s almost like he is saying, Please arrest me! Or is it, “Arrest me if you dare!”?
I really don’t understand it. I believe it was David Horowitz’s “Take No Prisoners” (not his best) where he stated that we have to question what’s going on within the GOP when they roll over almost all the time.
in times like this, sobering means panic stricken but holding it together…
Was Andrew McCabe dropped on his head repeatedly as a child? We don’t know that.
CTH has some interesting things to say about Trump’s restoration work in the White House.
President Trump tweeted about a “recording” after reading the New York Times article that was written from the memo account of James Comey; however, the tweet was also made after the Green Room was “taken down to the studs” and remodeled.
Everyone assumed President Trump was talking about a recording that he might have made of the Comey conversation; however, in hindsight given the nature of what is described above – wouldn’t it be more likely the recording was external to the White House; as a part of the surveillance.
The Green Room was stripped to the studs and redone. Why ?
I’ll bet you a donut President Trump was aware of the White House being bugged. That’s why he invited Lavrov and Kislyak to the Oval Office, and then later called McCabe. President Trump was proving to the listening ears there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
The FBI bugs were known, and allowed to remain in place all the way up to August 2nd, 2017.
(Via Politico) […] building-wide renovation blitz scheduled for the next two weeks, while President Donald Trump heads to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J
The air-conditioning project is bigger project that will shutter the West Wing during Trump’s absence.
“The maintenance people work hard, but when you’ve got a place that runs 24-7, it’s hard to keep it all in decent shape,” said a White House official.
The main situation room was recently closed for two weeks so that the iconic main table could be refurbished, according to a former official.
Hmmm.
Art Deco,
The Air Force is by far the most liberal of the services. Inherent to the weapons used is the greatest distance from the reality of the destruction wrought by them. That perfectly encapsulates the liberal disconnect from reality. Drone ‘warfare’ where the drone’s operator is far away takes that disconnect to a greater level. Only exceeded by men issuing orders from distant capitals.
To this day, I remained shocked that no one (other than me!) has noted how the entire investigation of Hillary was point shaving. And, in my view, that’s obstruction of justice. Big Jim Comey played high school basketball. He knows what point shaving is and that was the plan. McCabe and Strzok carried it out. They were the guys blowing layups and making stupid fouls.
I get the sense that the co-conspirators really believe they are above the law. Every one of these guys knows you never talk to anyone without a lawyer shutting you up all the time & standing between you & the questions.
But they write books. Go on TV. Go on tour. Testify before committees. Any open mic…any running camera…All the while laying out their nefarious deeds… Hell…maybe they are above the law?
Oh…Boss…looks like the Russians & the bad orange man stole your edit function again.
Trenchant comments here. Thanks, y’all!
What’s the difference between “co conspirators” and a “conspiracy theory”?
When the media controls what you think about both.
A conspiracy theory for one who believes in them to the extreme is a train of thought or argument that is unfalsifiable, it explains everything. Wheels within wheels and all immune to Occam’s Razor. Some here have deep knowledge of many conspiracies.
“a train of thought or argument that is unfalsifiable,” — sounds like Global Warming aka Climate Change….
Mike K on February 20, 2019 at 3:56 pm at 3:56 pm said:
CTH has some interesting things to say about Trump’s restoration work in the White House.
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I noticed that speculation (among other CTH posts, including about the surveillance Admiral Rogers blew the whistle on), and they may be onto something there.
Back to Trump as a 4D Chess Master, or maybe just an intelligent man who’s been on a lot of firing lines in his career.
PS because it’s fun — Donald Trump: Space Ranger!
https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/space-force-1.jpg
These jokes don’t fit. How else could’ve McCabe answered the question?
You want him to treat the premise of the question as absurd…as if he were just asked if he believes Barack Obama was born in the USA?
In that case he could’ve answered that the FBI doesn’t open an investigation into every claim made by every moron.
But in this case, there is indeed an open investigation that almost certainly includes the very question he was asked.
” So what’s he doing making himself a PR operative for partisan Democrats?”
Art, your fundamental misconception is that we have anything other than a UniParty government. There is only Codavilla’s Ruling Class and us Ruled to be their serfs.
The USA, and history, need indictments.
Will AG Barr get some DA to indict McCabe? And have a trial?
If not, it’s just PR theatre.
On the other hand, it might be that fighting too hard against the top of the deep state iceberg causes too much damage as the below the surface folk fight back and sabotage everything.
Merely firing lots of top FBI & DOJ bureaucrats might be the best the GOPe and deep state allow — the partial victory for truth from Trump winning.
No doubt there would have been no changes, not even firing or transfers, had Clinton won. 20% punishment of lots of top bozos is not full justice.
But it’s better than no justice at all.
Trump 2020 – and more Trump Reps in Congress.
>>McCabe has a still-large potential market for his book among the most fervent Trump-haters, whose appetite is still huge for this sort of thing
Stopped to browse in Barnes & Noble last week. As I sat down in a comfy chair with my tea and stack of magazines, I noticed the middle-age, overweight, white guy in the chair next to me.
Stack of a half-dozen anti-Trump books, with the latest “Team of Vipers” on top? Check! Intently reading the latest copy of “Atlantic” and purposely holding it open in such a way that the dark blue cover screaming “IMPEACH” in the biggest possible all-caps red letters will be prominently visible to other patrons? Check! T-shirt emblazoned with quote from Rex Tillerson, “Trump is a fucking moron”? Check!
Now, I rather like and support the incumbent President of the United States. BUT, that does not consume my whole life and existence!
Is McCabe a Russian agent? Is Brennan? Is Clapper?
We don’t know.
Over at NBC they’re only conceding that MCCabe was “ not candid” in congressional testimony
The thing is McCabe, comey, Strzok and Paige don’t really think Trump is a tool of Putin because if he really was they would befallen by tragic accidents – so sad
An interesting follow-up to my earlier comment (above @ 2/20 2:38 pm): Sharyl Attkisson has an essay up at American Thinker regarding how the government circles its wagons when accused of wrongdoing and how the justice system has priced itself out of reach of the average citizen.
I repeat my assertion fromabove: “Such actions reveal in full force the underlying criminal nature (as in Mafia) of government itself. The ruling powers are not answerable to the laws that they draft . . . .”
IMO Attkisson is one of the few bright spots in journalism today.
The link:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/a_citizen_suing_the_department_of_justice_needs_more_than_just_a_winning_legal_argument.html
Bandit, did you take my polonium? Where the hell is my polonium? And there’s no novichok left! Damnit, there’s always some wise guy wandering around the lab!
But in this case, there is indeed an open investigation that almost certainly includes the very question he was asked.
You are going to be so sad when Mueller closes up shop with zero next week.
He got a couple of Trump associates on process “crimes” that validate the book, “Ham Sandwich Nation” and Manafort on stuff from ten years ago before he knew Trump.
Schiff will run around screaming impeachment and paying off teenaged boys. His district is in Krazy Kalifornia so he is safe.
When Manju complains about McCabe being mocked and made the but of jokes and then says there are ongoing investigations. Well, even Manju can tell the game is up. Put a fork in him (McCabe) that bird is cooked, done. He’s toast.
>McCabe has a still-large potential market for his book among the most fervent Trump-haters, whose appetite is still huge for this sort of thing.
Just see what’s selling at the airport bookstores as you wait for your flight. Whatever is on display on the first table and in the “political” section is what the Average Joe and Jane are reading. Several are anti-Trump books.
He got Manafort for lying about collusion. This goes “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating,” according to the most recent court filing.
Manafort lied about his meeting with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian Operative to whom he gave internal polling data.
Roger Stone’s process crime was lying about his collision with the Wikileaks and the Russian GRU:
Just based on their coverage of the Trump as a Russian agent/dupe/colluder story alone, if there are enough people still sane, with some functioning brain cells left (give increasingly mega-strength legal marijuana time to permeate even more widely though the population, and whatever cells are left will be further befuddled–everyone become their own bit player in the world of Cheech and Chong), and some historical knowledge and perspective, and it will be crystal clear that the actions of the MSM in this case have totally discredited each and every member of that increasingly scurvy crew.
Their credibility account at the bank is overdrawn, their account closed; they simply have no credibility left.
Pile on top of that steaming pile of supposed “journalism,” their next opus, their performance in the case of Jesse Smollett, and it seems to me that it might be preferable–and more accurate–to get your news from the smelly vagrant who rants on your local street corner, or perhaps the local Psychic/palm reader.
To say that our much vaunted MSM, of great pomposity, self-ragard, and self-righteousness, has totally beclowned itself–run itself out of the actual “news” business–to become no more real than pro wrestling, is the understatement of the century.
Fake news, indeed.
And yet another news item evincing the theme of government as mafia:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/arizona-bill-may-compel-broad-range-of-citizens-to-submit-dna-to-a-state-database/#more-274478
Not only does the bill mandate the submission of dna to the state under certain circumstances, but it bills you $250 for the privilege of your inconvenience.
“Nice life ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
This is scary stuff, I escaped in ‘68, Communist country occupied by Soviets, lived in peace in beloved America, where can we escape? No place, stay here and fight all the disgusting maggots, who are Democratic Socialists , it doesn’t work that wonderful idea of their beliefs, please fight for our America , clean up all that is causing this misery , pray for our President Trump