CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin came to the rescue of embattled former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who’s on a tour for his new book, “The Threat: How the FBI Protects American in the Age of Terror and Trump.” McCabe was fired for cause by the FBI March 16, 2018 for mishandling the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal. Hillary was exonerated by McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey July 5, 2015 only three weeks before the Democratic National Convention. McCabe’s open admission in his book that he opened up a counter-intelligence investigation on Trump after he fired Comey May 9, 2017, fully discloses what President Donald Trump was saying all along, that the FBI tapped his phones during and after the campaign. FBI officials certainly tapped the phones of former Trump foreign policy aid Carter Page, former National Security Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and former Atty. Gen Jeff Sessions.
Trump responded to McCabe’s open disclosures saying what happened at the Department of Justice and FBI was “illegal and treasonous.” McCabe’s book says Trump was investigated by the FBI for being a “national security threat,” not admitting that he and Comey used Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA “the dossier” that alleged the same thing. McCabe can’t explain on what factual basis Trump was regarded as a national security threat, telling the media that he did nothing wrong opening up a counter-intelligence investigation based on dubious research conducted by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele for opposition research firm FusionGPS. Steele has never provided any corroboration of his allegation that Trump was compromised by the Kremlin or may have worked for the agency. Hillary hit Trump with these unfounded accusations at the last campaign debate in Las Vegas before the Nov. 4, 2016 election. Toobin knows there’s zero proof of McCabe’s claims.
Toobin, who was once a student of Prof. Alan Dershowitz at Harvard, works for CNN, one of the airwaves most anti-Trump networks. Toobin accepted as “facts in evidence” McCabe’s assertion that Trump was a national security threat during and after the campaign. Interviewed by CBS Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” Jan. 17, McCabe insisted that Trump was regarded by the FBI as a national security threat. Pelley never asked him what proof did the FBI have making that unproven allegation. Only admitting that he, with his colleagues, opened up a counter-intelligence probe on Trump. Toobin blasted Trump for suggesting that McCabe was engaged in “illegal and treasonous” behavior, saying it was “180 degrees” otherwise, buying lock, stock and barrel McCabe’s assertions. Prof. Dershowitz urged Toobin to stop playing partisan politics with the law, only accepting as facts in evidence, something that could be verified independently.
When it comes to the case on Donald Trump, the FBI has no facts, only a fraudulent dossier paid for by Hillary and the Democratic National Committee, charging Trump with outrageous criminal behavior. Anti-Trump media outlets like CNN ran with McCabe’s story that Trump was a dangerous national security threat. McCabe and Comey were fired by the Department of Justice with cause for botching the Hillary email investigation, but, more importantly, actively involved while serving in the FBI in a conspiracy to prevent Trump from becoming president, and, when elected, finding a way like the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. When FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page were caught exchanging emails and texts committing themselves to preventing Trump from becoming president, it exposed an active conspiracy in the FBI to sabotage Trump’a campaign to help Hillary get elected.
Calling Trump the one who engaged in treason, Toobin breached every legal principle of responsible jurisprudence. He has no facts to corroborate McCabe’s statements that Trump was viewed by the FBI as a dangerous traitor with loyalty to the Kremlin, according to Hillary’s dossier, not the United States. Toobin had no problem accepting McCabe’s statements as facts, when they’re part of his book tour aimed a getting as much publicity for book sales, but, more importantly, trying to clear his name from his FBI termination. McCabe followed the same pattern as Comey, who also wrote a book, suggesting that Trump tried to obstruct justice by telling him to “go easy” on Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Like Comey, McCabe’s comments have no verification other that accepting what he says. DOJ’s Inspector Geneeral Michael Horrowitz found enough wrongdoing to fire McCabe for botching the Hillary email investigation among other egregious breaches of protocol.
Toobin’s ready acceptance of McCabe’s story shows he’s no really a legal analyst but another CNN political hack. If he was doing his job, he would have asked McCabe to divulge his sources that allege Trump is a dangerous threat to U.S. national security. Toobin sheds no light on what happened at former President Barack Obama’s DOJ, FBI and National Security Agency [NSA] when the departments all worked in overdrive to wiretap and sabotage Trump’s presidential campaign. It’s inconceivable that when former National Security Adviser Susan Rice admitted in the House Intelligence Committee Sept. 13, 2017 she unmasked wiretapped conversations between Russian Amb. Sergy Kislyak and Trump campaign officials, she was not under orders from former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch and, ultimately, Obama. Toobin pretends he doesn’t know what’s “illegal and treasonous” when DOJ and FBI misconduct trampled on the Trump campaign’s rights.
