When President Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to shake up the bureaucracy, something he’s done a good job at. Whether the bureaucracy likes it or not, Trump’s shaking things up with 71-year-old Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions firing Deputy Director Andrew McCabe March 16 due to the Inspector General’s report about mishandling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email investigation. Calling McCabe’s firing a “great day for democracy,” Trump antagonized the intel community prompting angry denunciations from current and former federal officials. Trump’s beef with the FBI started July 6, 2016 when former FBI Director James Comey exonerated Hillary in her email investigation. Deputy FBI Director McCabe directed the FBI’s Hillary email investigation. It was much later that Trump learned of the FBI’s bias against his presidential campaign.
Showing that Trump is prepared to take on FBI, Justice Department, National Security agency or any other group that wiretapped his campaign, his personal attorney John Dowd laid out the White House case. Dowd called for the Office of Professional Responsibility “to bring an end to the alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a corrupt and fraudulent dossier,” said Dowd, declaring war on the FBI. What embarrasses the Justice Department, FBI and National Security Agency is they were involved in the most egregious abuse of the national security apparatus in the nation’s history, wiretapping a presidential campaign to help the presidential bid of Hillary. Dowd and Trump’s team of attorneys aren’t backing down, prompting the bureaucracy to accuse Trump of obstruction of justice.
Any examination of McCabe’s handling of the Hillary email investigation proves that the real obstruction of justice occurred when Hillary paid a tech firm to scrub 33,000 emails off her private server while under Congressional subpoena. Any attempt to destroy evidence in any criminal or civil probe results in automatic conviction for obstruction of justice. Yet McCabe, working with Comey, gave feeble excuses why Hillary should not be prosecuted for sending classified information over her private email server. McCabe didn’t once consider the obvious crime of destroying evidence in a criminal probe, proving, he exonerated Hillary without going through proper channels at the Justice Department. Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, second in the Justice Department, stated emphatically May 10 ,2017 in a detailed three-page memo why Comey was fired May 9, 2017, for breaching FBI protocol.
Yet the bureaucracy accuses Trump of obstruction of Justice, despite Comey’s own admission May 10, 2017 that the president had every right to fire him. “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard-working men and women of the FBI—a great day for Democracy,” tweeted Trump. But what Trump really wants is to get to the bottom of the is FBI’s role in wiretapping his campaign, using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to seek wiretaps on campaign officials, including Sessions and former National Security Director Gen. Michael Flynn. “Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI,” Trump tweeted. Trump referred to FBI agents Peter Strrzok and Lisa Page, both of whom carried on an anti-Trump text message exchange during the campaign.
As the intel community closes ranks against Trump, McCabe pushed back, accusing Trump of attacking the FBI and the intel community. Justice Department Inspector General found that McCabe made unauthorized defamatory leaks to the media against Trump. “When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history,” said former Obama CIA Director John Brennan, a bitter enemy of Trump. Brennan’s public remarks go over the top, proving he’s got a dog in the fight. When Brennan’s so outraged is anyone’s guess, other than becoming a nightly fixture in the anti-Trump media. What Brennan and others in the intel community want to avoid is the embarrassment of the public knowing the U.S. national security apparatus was used to defeat a presidential candidate.
McCabe’s exact role in exonerating Hillary isn’t known in Comey’s murky behind-the-scenes efforts to sabotage Trump’s presidential campaign. Comey’s personal involvement with “the dossier’s” key researcher former MI6 Christopher Steele isn’t known Comey told Congress under oath he couldn’t answer those questions because they were classified. “It is part of this administration ongoing war with the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation,” said McCabe, giving the Democrats’ talking points that Trump’s attack on the intel community was part of his obstruction of justice. When, in fact, McCabe, Comey, the Obama Justice Department and National Security Agency abused the national security apparatus to wiretap Trump campaign officials to get Hillary elected president. Whether that comes out is anyone’s guess. What’s known for sure is the intel community’s pushing back.
