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Originally posted by sdy:
Think about those FBI INSD people.

They interview McCabe on 9 May. He says he knows nothing of the leak.

That same day he becomes acting FBI Director.

Then the investigators interview Page. She says she leaked the info, and McCabe told her to do it.

A chill must have gone down their spines.

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On August 7, 2017, INSD interviewed Special Counsel concerning the October 30 article. At that time, INSD investigators were not aware of Special Counsel’s texts on October 27, 28, and 30 concerning her contacts with Barrett and they had not made progress uncovering who may have been the source of the account of the August 12 McCabe-PADAG call provided to the WSJ. During the interview, Special Counsel told INSD agents under oath that she was a source for the disclosure of the account of the August 12 McCabe-PADAG call, the disclosure was fully authorized by McCabe, and Special Counsel and AD/OPA provided the information to Barrett in a telephone call from the FBI OPA office. Special Counsel signed an SSS to this effect on August 15, 2017, which included as an exhibit her contemporaneous notes of the discussions with Barrett on October 27 and 28, 2016. Special Counsel gave the same account to the OIG in two subsequent interviews on September 7 and October 26, 2017.

Paragraph 16 OIG Report

Page wasn't interviewed until August, and that’s when they realized they needed to turn it over to OIG.

One thing that impressed me, and may may give me a little hope for agents, is that they realized what they were looking at needed to be pushed up a level. I'm sure turning over an investigation to what is basically Internal Affairs could not have been easy.

They made the right choice.

This is a good read. I'm on my phone so I can only link.

https://threadreaderapp.com/th...570434841235456.html

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Originally posted by sdy:


At this point the FBI INSD felt it was no longer appropriate for GS14 FBI agents to investigate the Dep Director.

Anyone want to guess why? Maybe too honest? Maybe not part of the swamp? Too hard to influence like the higher ups? This one sentence is pretty telling about the current FBI. They have a funny idea of propriety. First they were known as the untouchables, now they're commonly assumed to be the "touchables".

I think the Whitey Bulger/John Connolly thing kinda took a giant dump on the whole "untouchable" thing.

Consequences. Lets see them.

If I LIED to the FBI, if I "mishandled" classified info...know where I would be? Not posting on this forum.

I would be UNDER the jail.

We are are country of laws or we are not. If we are not, let me know where to muster.

I have been a HUGE critic of Sessions, and I continue to be. But his appointment of a prosecutor from Utah REALLY made me happy.

Brilliant move. Absolutely brilliant.

The DOD IG can look at whatever they want, but they cannot touch. The prosecutor can "touch". And he can do so real time. By appointing him Sessions closed the gap between investigation and special procesutor.

At least I hope this is so. Not a huge Sesssions fan, but this move was perfect.

I'll let it play out.

too long to print, but a good posting at

https://theconservativetreehou...-mccabe/#more-148115

A very good overall review of the Office of Inspector General report into the conduct of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

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Originally posted by sdy:
too long to print, but a good posting at

https://theconservativetreehou...-mccabe/#more-148115

A very good overall review of the Office of Inspector General report into the conduct of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

Let’s focus on the Weiner laptop, get the dates, the circumstances over the public disclosure, etc.

McCabe sitting on it for weeks might be more revelatory than the leak to the WSJ.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
I have been a HUGE critic of Sessions, and I continue to be. But his appointment of a prosecutor from Utah REALLY made me happy.

Brilliant move. Absolutely brilliant.

The DOD IG can look at whatever they want, but they cannot touch. The prosecutor can "touch". And he can do so real time. By appointing him Sessions closed the gap between investigation and special procesutor.

At least I hope this is so. Not a huge Sesssions fan, but this move was perfect.

I'll let it play out.

That's assuming the guy from Utah is not another swamp creature. I'm not convinced yet.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by sdy:
too long to print, but a good posting at

https://theconservativetreehou...-mccabe/#more-148115

A very good overall review of the Office of Inspector General report into the conduct of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

Let’s focus on the Weiner laptop, get the dates, the circumstances over the public disclosure, etc.

McCabe sitting on it for weeks might be more revelatory than the leak to the WSJ.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe knew of thousands of emails related to the Hillary Clinton private server investigation for at least a month before then-FBI Director James Comey informed Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday.


That lag is the subject of an investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as part of a wider probe into the FBI's actions prior to the 2016 election. The Washington Post was the first to report that McCabe was a focus of Horowitz's investigation.

The timeline of when the emails were discovered on the laptop of former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner emerged in text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, the Journal reported.

McCabe left his position Monday ahead of his planned retirement, effective March 18. The Post reported Tuesday that McCabe had met with FBI Director Christopher Wray to discuss the inspector general's investigation prior to the announcement of his departure.

On Sept. 28, Strzok messaged Page that he had been "called up to Andy's office" earlier that day and told of "hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner’s [attorney] to sdny," a reference to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Strzok added that the email cache "includes a ton of material from spouse," a reference to Weiner's then-wife Huma Abedin, a top adviser to Clinton.

However, the existence of the emails on Weiner's laptop was not made public until Oct. 28, when Comey informed Congress in a letter that the FBI was re-opening the Clinton investigation.


Strzok and two other agents spent the weekend before the Nov. 8 election sifting through about 3,000 emails from Weiner's laptop, the Journal reported. Early on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 6, Strzok texted Page that the team had found "no new classified" emails.

That same day, Comey informed Congress that the Weiner emails had not altered the FBI's initial decision not to prosecute Clinton.

At the time, the U.S. Attorney's office was investigating Weiner for crimes related to explicit messages he sent to a teenage girl. Weiner pleaded guilty to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor and was sentenced to 21 months in prison.

The conservative group Judicial Watch has claimed that at least 18 emails containing classified information were found on Weiner's laptop. Among them were emails from Abedin's "clintonemail.com" account as well as from her Blackberry. Comey told lawmakers earlier this year that he believes Abedin regularly forwarded emails to Weiner for him to print out so she could give them to Clinton.

Link

Reminder: the leak to WSJ happened in October 2016. No indication there was any initial investigation into the leak. Then Jeff Sessions became AG. In Nov 2017, Sessions announced there were 27 investigations going on about leaks.

Now we know that in May 2017, FBI investigators had interviewed McCabe. Who lied to them.

They don't even pretend to have credibility any more...

Pays to be a traitor in the FBI huh? Been over a year since he was found to have lied to the FBI...but still no indictment.

I've come to grips with the fact that the DOJ is hopelessly corrupt, as is the FBI. And NO ONE will ever be held accountable.

So it turns out that McCabe really IS a lying scumbag:

Andrew McCabe said he lied to FBI about Wall Street Journal leak

I hope AG Barr burns this piece of shit down.