Jerry Shugart
Well-known member
Recently released FBI emails show McCabe played an instrumental role in watering down conclusions in the Clinton case, made two months before Hillary was interviewed.
The IG is investigating whether partisan bias influenced his decisions. His wife, a Democrat, ran for Virginia state office, and McCabe involved himself in her campaign, yet refused to recuse himself from the Clinton case until a week before the election. And he used official FBI email to conduct political business on his wife’s behalf.
More troubling, the IG reportedly is investigating McCabe for allegedly asking agents to change the wording in the so-called 302 summaries of the official statements of suspects and witnesses they took in the course of their investigations, according to Fox News.
McCabe’s exit comes on the heels of the reassignments of his top lawyer, Lisa Page, and top counterintelligence investigator, Peter Strzok, who the IG caught texting political messages slamming Trump and rooting for Clinton during the election. In late October 2016, McCabe assigned Strzok to quickly sift through the thousands of new Clinton emails found on Weiner’s laptop before giving the all-clear just days before the election.
Wray is also sweeping aside Comey’s old chief of staff, James Rybicki, who appears in -mails watering down the case against Clinton. Another Comey crony, James Baker, reportedly is leaving his post as FBI general counsel. Baker recently got into hot water after internal documents revealed he contacted a reporter who wrote about the Clinton-funded dossier tying Trump to Moscow during the election.
“The FBI hierarchy, the management, has been poisoned by politics,” said Michael Biasello, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who spent 10 years in counterintelligence. “This is Comey’s legacy.”
And while Wray is trying to clean up Comey’s mess, he’s at the same time trying to block the release of documents — including the infamous memo reportedly alleging the FBI abused its surveillance powers, which will likely be released Friday over Wray’s objections — that could damage the bureau’s vaunted reputation. Restoring public trust in the FBI — the only agency the public can rely on to expose government corruption — won’t be easy. To get beyond this crisis of confidence, the FBI must come completely clean, no matter how painful the process.
The IG is investigating whether partisan bias influenced his decisions. His wife, a Democrat, ran for Virginia state office, and McCabe involved himself in her campaign, yet refused to recuse himself from the Clinton case until a week before the election. And he used official FBI email to conduct political business on his wife’s behalf.
More troubling, the IG reportedly is investigating McCabe for allegedly asking agents to change the wording in the so-called 302 summaries of the official statements of suspects and witnesses they took in the course of their investigations, according to Fox News.
McCabe’s exit comes on the heels of the reassignments of his top lawyer, Lisa Page, and top counterintelligence investigator, Peter Strzok, who the IG caught texting political messages slamming Trump and rooting for Clinton during the election. In late October 2016, McCabe assigned Strzok to quickly sift through the thousands of new Clinton emails found on Weiner’s laptop before giving the all-clear just days before the election.
Wray is also sweeping aside Comey’s old chief of staff, James Rybicki, who appears in -mails watering down the case against Clinton. Another Comey crony, James Baker, reportedly is leaving his post as FBI general counsel. Baker recently got into hot water after internal documents revealed he contacted a reporter who wrote about the Clinton-funded dossier tying Trump to Moscow during the election.
“The FBI hierarchy, the management, has been poisoned by politics,” said Michael Biasello, a 25-year veteran of the FBI who spent 10 years in counterintelligence. “This is Comey’s legacy.”
And while Wray is trying to clean up Comey’s mess, he’s at the same time trying to block the release of documents — including the infamous memo reportedly alleging the FBI abused its surveillance powers, which will likely be released Friday over Wray’s objections — that could damage the bureau’s vaunted reputation. Restoring public trust in the FBI — the only agency the public can rely on to expose government corruption — won’t be easy. To get beyond this crisis of confidence, the FBI must come completely clean, no matter how painful the process.
It won't be long before McCabe makes a deal and turns on all his friends in Washington, beginning with Obama!
