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FBI Had "Two Sets Of Records" On Trump Investigation; Comey, McCabe Implicated

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-20/fbi-upper-eschelon...
exhilarant people who are hurt
  09/20/18
rumors circulating that mccabe and strzok got caught in stin...
Alcoholic faggotry
  09/20/18
Date: September 20th, 2018 12:38 PM Author: don't run nigga...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/20/18
They were just trying to protect Trump
galvanic slap-happy station ape
  09/20/18
Obama will never be president now!
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/20/18
Lol Obeezy
stirring greedy son of senegal theater stage
  09/20/18
*WLMAS kicks over empty whiskey bottle, stumbles into thread...
vivacious blood rage
  09/20/18
Xo: zero hedge reporting on hannity interviewing somebody re...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/20/18
That's actual far more reliable than Fake News CNN or NYT. ...
vivacious blood rage
  09/20/18
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know-it-all deranged lettuce depressive
  09/20/18
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exhilarant people who are hurt
  09/20/18
tick tock drumpfcucks
Alcoholic faggotry
  09/20/18
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Amber State
  09/20/18
Lmao okay bump this thread when its confirmed true okay?
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/20/18
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Mint area
  02/17/20
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splenetic bawdyhouse mad-dog skullcap
  09/29/18
oh jesus fucking christ (primarily directed at your first se...
dead brunch cuckold
  09/29/18
He will be vindicated any day now
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/29/18
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Histrionic indigo roommate
  11/11/18
Lol
olive curious property
  02/17/20
OMFG LOL
Histrionic indigo roommate
  10/02/18
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olive curious property
  02/17/20
Sara Carter has been all over this from day 1, and has been ...
abnormal cracking garrison
  09/20/18
Lmao
territorial site
  09/20/18
Date: September 20th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: Voodoo Child ...
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  03/07/19
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exhilarant people who are hurt
  09/20/18
Crazy how CNN, NYT, WaPo, and others don't want to see the d...
Amber State
  09/20/18
NYT has had the unredacted FISA application since mid last y...
exhilarant people who are hurt
  09/20/18
SPIN RAT FUCKS
cerebral useless brakes
  09/20/18
Lets guess the shelf life of this forcememe distraction.
territorial site
  09/20/18
Drake posted about spygate like twice than got distracted by...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/20/18
Appears to have already lost interest lmak
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/23/18
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territorial site
  09/20/18
Ljl how many times will you be fooled by the same schtick? ...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/23/18
please respond
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/29/18
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territorial site
  09/24/18
Jfc I am perpetually surprised at how gullible and downright...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  09/29/18
...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  10/01/18
...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  10/02/18
OBAMA DONE HERE
Histrionic indigo roommate
  10/02/18
...
Histrionic indigo roommate
  10/04/18
Ljl
Histrionic indigo roommate
  11/11/18
How did this one pan out for you? You stupid gullible fucks.
Histrionic indigo roommate
  12/03/18
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Histrionic indigo roommate
  12/11/18
does zero hedger ever post stories that aren't bullshit or i...
ebony tripping range
  12/11/18
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Unhinged Excitant New Version
  03/07/19
Holy fucking shit lol shitcons
Histrionic indigo roommate
  12/27/18
this sounds pretty serious
Opaque self-centered antidepressant drug theater
  12/27/18
reminder cons - you always get your hopes up. every time...
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  05/03/19
Isn't McCabe looking at potential criminal charges? He was f...
Shaky Milk
  05/03/19
listen u dumb shitcon it hasn’t happened yet therefore...
Alcoholic faggotry
  05/03/19
Reply Favorite Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:51 AM Author...
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  05/03/19
Do you understand simple dialogue? McCabe was indeed fired f...
Shaky Milk
  05/03/19
lmao
ebony tripping range
  02/17/20
best statement of the case against McCabe (which will never ...
Exciting deer antler preventive strike
  02/17/20
Almost like the dood above u is retarded or disingenuous in ...
olive curious property
  02/17/20
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Unhinged Excitant New Version
  02/14/20
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Unhinged Excitant New Version
  02/17/20
Obeezy, how’s your holiday weekend going?
abnormal cracking garrison
  02/17/20
Had a great weekend bro, but I'm at the office now (no holid...
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  02/17/20
GC is relentless. Does your firm not even observe President&...
abnormal cracking garrison
  02/17/20
I'm sick of WFH man. Easier to get stuff done here. I'll be ...
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  02/17/20
Forgot that you copped in house. In any event: Fuck GC.
abnormal cracking garrison
  02/17/20
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french boltzmann menage
  05/03/19
One set of records - Mueller was carrying you
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abnormal cracking garrison
  02/17/20
Lol drake
Unhinged Excitant New Version
  10/23/20
😂
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  08/18/21


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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:32 PM
Author: exhilarant people who are hurt

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-20/fbi-upper-eschelon-had-two-sets-records-trump-investigation-comey-mccabe-implicated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848710)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:38 PM
Author: Alcoholic faggotry

rumors circulating that mccabe and strzok got caught in sting operations as they tried to destroy files/evidence on their way out

easy conclusion to jump to from this story is that they were probably trying to cover the 2nd set (real) records

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848756)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:49 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Date: September 20th, 2018 12:38 PM

Author: don't run nigga i see you

rumors circulating that mccabe and strzok got caught in sting operations as they tried to destroy files/evidence on their way out

easy conclusion to jump to from this story is that they were probably trying to cover the 2nd set (real) records

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848756)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848846)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:40 PM
Author: galvanic slap-happy station ape

They were just trying to protect Trump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848766)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Obama will never be president now!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848791)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: stirring greedy son of senegal theater stage

Lol Obeezy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848798)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:47 PM
Author: vivacious blood rage

*WLMAS kicks over empty whiskey bottle, stumbles into thread*

"Just wait until Mueller's grand plan is revealed Trumpkins! Aaarrrgggghh"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848829)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:48 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Xo: zero hedge reporting on hannity interviewing somebody relying on unnamed sources = IRONCLAD AND CREDIBLE.

Ljl!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848845)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:58 PM
Author: vivacious blood rage

That's actual far more reliable than Fake News CNN or NYT.

Also, the more we learn about the Muh Russia investigation, the more evident the corruption becomes. In contrast, the more we learn about the alleged collusion, the more apparent it becomes there is absolutely nothing.

Odd case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848930)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:00 PM
Author: know-it-all deranged lettuce depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848954)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: exhilarant people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848958)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:10 PM
Author: Alcoholic faggotry

tick tock drumpfcucks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849009)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:29 PM
Author: Amber State



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849091)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 2:02 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Lmao okay bump this thread when its confirmed true okay?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849288)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:44 PM
Author: Mint area



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#39607499)



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Date: September 29th, 2018 1:55 PM
Author: splenetic bawdyhouse mad-dog skullcap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36921760)



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Date: September 29th, 2018 1:57 PM
Author: dead brunch cuckold

oh jesus fucking christ (primarily directed at your first sentence)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36921769)



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Date: September 29th, 2018 2:00 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

He will be vindicated any day now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36921788)



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Date: November 11th, 2018 8:53 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37212509)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:14 PM
Author: olive curious property

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#39607640)



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Date: October 2nd, 2018 11:42 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

OMFG LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36939452)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:15 PM
Author: olive curious property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#39607642)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 2:02 PM
Author: abnormal cracking garrison

Sara Carter has been all over this from day 1, and has been proven right time and again.

Your time is coming, little brej.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849286)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: territorial site

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849292)



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Date: March 7th, 2019 6:31 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

Date: September 20th, 2018 2:02 PM

Author: Voodoo Child

Sara Carter has been all over this from day 1, and has been proven right time and again.

Your time is coming, little brej.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849286)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37894683)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:59 PM
Author: exhilarant people who are hurt



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848937)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 12:59 PM
Author: Amber State

Crazy how CNN, NYT, WaPo, and others don't want to see the documents declassified.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848942)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:00 PM
Author: exhilarant people who are hurt

NYT has had the unredacted FISA application since mid last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36848951)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:15 PM
Author: cerebral useless brakes

SPIN RAT FUCKS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849032)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 1:48 PM
Author: territorial site

Lets guess the shelf life of this forcememe distraction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849189)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 2:02 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Drake posted about spygate like twice than got distracted by something new.

This will be the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36849283)



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Date: September 23rd, 2018 10:27 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Appears to have already lost interest lmak

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36873455)



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Date: September 20th, 2018 8:45 PM
Author: territorial site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36851667)



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Date: September 23rd, 2018 10:26 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Ljl how many times will you be fooled by the same schtick?

Will you ever learn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36873448)



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Date: September 29th, 2018 1:52 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

please respond

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36921753)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 7:44 AM
Author: territorial site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36875877)



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Date: September 29th, 2018 2:01 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Jfc I am perpetually surprised at how gullible and downright stupid you shitcons are.

Any of you care to explain your faggotry?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36921791)



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Date: October 1st, 2018 10:52 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36932132)



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Date: October 2nd, 2018 11:06 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36939234)



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Date: October 2nd, 2018 11:35 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

OBAMA DONE HERE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36939421)



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Date: October 4th, 2018 12:43 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#36955141)



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Date: November 11th, 2018 8:52 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37212504)



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Date: December 3rd, 2018 12:37 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

How did this one pan out for you? You stupid gullible fucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37342520)



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Date: December 11th, 2018 9:41 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37388146)



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Date: December 11th, 2018 9:42 AM
Author: ebony tripping range

does zero hedger ever post stories that aren't bullshit or is that their shtick now like infowars?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37388152)



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Date: March 7th, 2019 7:08 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37894807)



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Date: December 27th, 2018 9:17 PM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

Holy fucking shit lol shitcons

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37483313)



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Date: December 27th, 2018 9:46 PM
Author: Opaque self-centered antidepressant drug theater

this sounds pretty serious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#37483434)



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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:36 AM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

reminder cons - you always get your hopes up.

every time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180164)



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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:51 AM
Author: Shaky Milk

Isn't McCabe looking at potential criminal charges? He was fired for cause. You do think it's a crime for anybody to lie to the FBI, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180244)



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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:53 AM
Author: Alcoholic faggotry

listen u dumb shitcon it hasn’t happened yet therefore it cannot happen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180251)



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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:55 AM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:51 AM

Author: gibberish

Isn't McCabe looking at potential criminal charges? He was fired for cause. You do think it's a crime for anybody to lie to the FBI, right?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180244)

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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:53 AM

Author: don't run xo po process servers see ur moniker

listen u dumb shitcon it hasn’t happened yet therefore it cannot happen

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180251)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180261)



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Date: May 3rd, 2019 11:39 AM
Author: Shaky Milk

Do you understand simple dialogue? McCabe was indeed fired for cause, or legitimately, did i miss something? The IG sent over a criminal referral to prosecutors. Do you think that isn't real? He leaked to the press and subsequently lied about it to the FBI.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#38180475)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:44 PM
Author: ebony tripping range

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#39607504)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:55 PM
Author: Exciting deer antler preventive strike

best statement of the case against McCabe (which will never happen):

=====

LAW & THE COURTS

Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?

By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

February 15, 2020 6:50 PM

The proof that he willfully deceived investigators appears strong, but the Justice Department likely felt there were too many obstacles to convicting him.

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated. McCabe was fired in March 2018, shortly after a blistering Justice Department inspector general (IG) report concluded that he repeatedly and blatantly lied — or, as the Bureau lexicon puts it, “lacked candor” — when questioned, including under oath.

Why not indict McCabe on felony false-statements charges? That is the question being pressed by incensed Trump supporters. After all, the constitutional guarantee of equal justice under the law is supposed to mean that McCabe gets the same quality of justice afforded to the sad sacks pursued with unseemly zeal by McCabe’s FBI and Robert Mueller’s prosecutors. George Papadopoulos was convicted of making a trivial false statement about the date of a meeting. Roger Stone was convicted of obstruction long after the special counsel knew there was no Trump–Russia conspiracy, even though his meanderings did not impede the investigation in any meaningful way. And in the case of Michael Flynn’s false-statements conviction, as McCabe himself acknowledged to the House Intelligence Committee, even the agents who interviewed him did not believe he intentionally misled them.

I emphasize Flynn’s intent because purported lack of intent is McCabe’s principal defense, too. Even McCabe himself, to say nothing of his lawyers and his apologists in the anti-Trump network of bureaucrats-turned-pundits, cannot deny that he made false statements to FBI agents and the IG. Rather, they argue that the 21-year senior law-enforcement official did not mean to lie, that he was too distracted by his high-level responsibilities to focus on anything as mundane as a leak — even though he seemed pretty damned focused on the leak while he was orchestrating it.

The “he did not believe he intentionally misled them” defense is not just implausible; it proved unavailing on McCabe’s watch, at least in General Flynn’s case. Hence, McCabe has a back-up plan: To argue that it would be extraordinary — and thus unconstitutionally selective and retaliatory — for the Justice Department to prosecute a former official for false statements in a “mere” administrative inquiry (which the leak probe was), as opposed to a criminal investigation. Again, tell that to Flynn, with whom the FBI conducted a brace-style interview — at the White House, without his counsel present, and in blithe disregard of procedures for FBI interviews of the president’s staff — despite the absence of a sound investigative basis for doing so, and whom Mueller’s maulers squeezed into a guilty plea anyway.

It will be a while before we learn the whole story of why the Justice Department walked away from the McCabe case, if we ever do. I have some supposition to offer on that score. First, however, it is worth revisiting the case against McCabe as outlined by the meticulous and highly regarded IG, Michael Horowitz. If you want to know why people are so angry, and why they are increasingly convinced that, for all President Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, a two-tiered justice system that rewards the well-connected is alive and well, consider the following.

In October 2016, McCabe directed his counsel, Lisa Page, to leak investigative information about the FBI’s Clinton Foundation probe to reporter Devlin Barrett, then of the Wall Street Journal. The leak had the effect of confirming the existence of the investigation, something the FBI is supposed to resist. While his high rank gave him the power to authorize such a disclosure if it were in the public interest, the IG found that McCabe’s leak “was clearly not within the public interest.”

In fact, the Bureau’s then-director, James Comey, had tried to keep the Clinton Foundation probe under wraps, refusing to confirm or deny its existence even to the House Judiciary Committee. Comey had been right to stay mum: Public revelation would have harmed the probe and thrust the FBI deeper into the politics of the then-imminent 2016 presidential election, in which Hillary Clinton was the Democratic candidate and her investigation by the Bureau was an explosive campaign issue.

Notwithstanding these concerns, according to Horowitz’s report, McCabe orchestrated the leak “to advance his personal interests” — to paint himself in a favorable light in comparison to Justice Department officials amid an internal dispute about the Clinton Foundation probe (specifically, about the Obama Justice Department’s pressure on the Bureau to drop it). As the IG put it: “McCabe’s disclosure was an attempt to make himself look good by making senior department leadership . . . look bad.”

McCabe’s account has been contradicted by Comey, a witness who is otherwise sympathetic to him and hostile to the Trump Justice Department, and whose actions — like his — are being examined in prosecutor John Durham’s probe of the Trump-Russia investigation. Comey’s testimony is directly at odds with McCabe’s version of events, and the IG painstakingly explained why the former director’s version was credible while his deputy’s was not. (Comey was, nevertheless, exceedingly complimentary of McCabe after the IG report was published.)

Page is regarded by McCabe backers as key to his defense. She reportedly told the grand jury that, because McCabe had authority to approve media disclosures, he had no motive to lie about the leak. That’s laughable. McCabe did serially mislead investigators, so plainly he had some reason for doing so. But even putting that aside, the IG’s conclusion was not that McCabe lacked authority to leak; it was that he lacked a public-interest justification for exercising that authority. He leaked for self-promotion purposes, and then he lied about it because it was humiliating to be caught putting his personal interests ahead of the Bureau’s investigative integrity. That said, Page’s account does illuminate a problem for prosecutors: It’s tough to win a case when your witnesses are spinning for the defendant. (Oh, and have you seen Page’s tweet toasting McCabe in the aftermath of the news that the DOJ had closed the investigation?)

McCabe’s Multiple False Statements

Barrett’s Journal article appeared on October 30, 2016. The very next day, McCabe deceived Comey about it, indicating that he had not authorized the leak and had no idea who its source was. In Comey’s telling, credited by the IG, McCabe “definitely” did not acknowledge that he had approved the leak.

Thereafter, the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) opened an investigation of the leak. On May 9, 2017, McCabe denied to two INSD investigators that he knew the source of the leak. This was not a fleeting conversation. McCabe was placed under oath, and the INSD agents provided him with a copy of Barrett’s article. He read it and initialed it to acknowledge that he had done so. He was questioned about it by the agents, who took contemporaneous notes. McCabe told the agents that he had “no idea where [the leaked information] came from” or “who the source was.”

On July 28, 2017, McCabe was interviewed by the IG’s office — under oath and recorded on tape. In that session, he preposterously claimed to be unaware that Page, his FBI counsel, was directed to speak to reporters around the time of the October 30 Journal report. McCabe added that he was out of town then, and thus unaware of what Page had been up to. In point of fact, McCabe had consulted closely with Page about the leak. A paper trail of their texts and phone contacts evinced his keen interest in Page’s communications with Barrett. Consequently, the IG concluded that McCabe’s denials were “demonstrably false.”

Clearly concerned about the hole he had dug for himself, McCabe called the IG’s office four days later, on August 1, 2017, to say that, shucks, come to think of it, he just might have kinda, sorta told Page to speak with Barrett after all. He might even have told her to coordinate with Mike Kortan, then the Bureau’s top media liaison, and follow-up with the Journal about some of its prior reporting.

As the IG observed, this “attempt to correct his prior false testimony” was the “appropriate” thing for McCabe to do. Alas, when he was given an opportunity to come in and explain himself, he compounded his misconduct by making more false statements while under oath: In an interview with investigators on November 29, 2017, McCabe purported to recall informing Comey that he, McCabe, had authorized the leak, and that Comey had responded that the leak was a good idea.

These were quite stunning recollections, given that the deputy director had previously disclaimed any knowledge about the source of the leak. But McCabe took care of that little hiccup by simply denying his prior denial. That is, he insisted that he had not feigned ignorance about the leak when INSD interviewed him on May 9. Indeed, McCabe even denied that the May 9 interview had been a real interview. To the contrary, he claimed that agents had casually pulled him aside at the conclusion of a meeting on an unrelated topic, and peppered him out of the blue with a question or two about the Journal leak. As General Flynn could tell you, that sort of thing can be tough on a busy top U.S. government official . . . although Flynn did not get much sympathy for it when McCabe was running the FBI.

Again, the IG concluded that McCabe’s version of events was “demonstrably false.”

McCabe Covers His Tracks

As an old trial lawyer, I’d be remiss if I failed to rehearse my favorite part of the IG’s report — the part that would tell a jury everything they needed to know about good ol’ Andy McCabe.

Again, the Journal story generated by McCabe’s leak was published on October 30, a Sunday. Late that afternoon, McCabe called the head of the FBI’s Manhattan office. Why? Well . . . to ream him out over media leaks, that’s why. McCabe railed that New York agents must be the culprits. He also made a similar call to the Bureau’s Washington field office, warning its chief to “get his house in order” and stop these terribly damaging leaks.

It is worth remembering McCabe’s October 30 scolding of subordinates when you think about how he later claimed that, on the very next day, he’d freely admitted to his superior, Comey, that he himself was the source of the leak. Quite the piece of work, this guy: To throw the scent off himself after carefully arranging the leak, McCabe dressed down the FBI’s two premier field offices, knowing they were completely innocent, and then pretended for months that he knew nothing about the leak.

This is the second-highest-ranking officer of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency we’re talking about, here.

The Non-Prosecution Decision

We may never get a satisfying explanation for the Justice Department’s decision to drop the McCabe probe. That’s the way it is when such complicated reasons and motives are at play.

The aforementioned challenge of hostile witnesses is not to be underestimated. In addition, there are growing indications that the Justice Department had lost confidence in the U.S. attorney who was overseeing the probe, Jesse Liu. As I noted this week, while Liu was once seen as a rising Trump administration star, she was quietly edged out of her post last month, and the White House just pulled her nomination to fill an important Treasury Department post.

There have been rumblings that the McCabe investigation was botched. Kamil Shields, a prosecutor who reportedly grew frustrated by her supervisors’ inordinate delays in making decisions about the McCabe probe, ultimately left the Justice Department to take a private-practice job. Another prosecutor, David Kent, quit last summer as DOJ dithered over the decision on whether to prosecute. Things became so drawn out that the investigating grand jury’s term lapsed. Meanwhile, the Justice Department endorsed Liu’s aggressive decision to bring a thin, politically fraught false-statements case against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, in connection with lobbying for a foreign country — the sort of crime that is rarely prosecuted. Craig was swiftly acquitted. Reportedly, Liu advocated charging McCabe, but the DOJ may have harbored doubts about her judgment.

No matter the outcome, the Justice Department stood to take some hits if McCabe had been charged. Focus on McCabe’s leak would have drawn attention to pressure DOJ officials had put on the Bureau over the Clinton Foundation investigation (which, reportedly, is likely to be closed without charges). It would also renew interest in the question of whether the FBI improperly allowed McCabe to play a role in Clinton-related investigations when his wife, as a political candidate, got major funding from Clinton-tied sources.

Moreover, new Freedom of Information Act disclosures — made to meet a deadline set by District Judge Reggie Walton, which may explain the timing of the non-prosecution announcement — indicate that the Justice Department and FBI did not comply with regulations in what appears to be the rushed termination of McCabe, adding heft to the former deputy director’s claim that he was being singled out for abusive treatment, potentially including prosecution, because of vengeful politics.

On that score, Judge Walton took pains to decry the fusillade of tweets directed at McCabe by President Trump. I must note here that if a district U.S. attorney publicly labeled as a liar a suspect the Justice Department had indicted for false statements, that U.S. attorney would be sanctioned by the court. The U.S. attorneys, like the rest of the Justice Department, work for Trump. The president is correct when he insists, as he did this week, that he has the constitutional power to intervene in Justice Department matters. But that means he is subject to the same legal obligations that inhibit his Justice Department subordinates. Those obligations include protecting McCabe’s right to a fair trial — a duty the president may chafe at, but which is part of the deal when you take an oath to preserve the Constitution and execute the laws faithfully.

If you envision Judge Walton as part of the Obama-appointed robed resistance, check your premises. He is a no-nonsense jurist originally named to the D.C. Superior Court by President Reagan, and then to the federal district court by President George W. Bush. As Politico reports, he had this to say about President Trump’s commentary on the McCabe investigation:

The public is listening to what’s going on, and I don’t think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted. . . . I just think it’s a banana republic when we go down that road. . . . I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undo inappropriate pressure being brought to bear. . . . It’s just, it’s very disturbing that we’re in the mess that we’re in in that regard. . . . I just think the integrity of the process is being unduly undermined by inappropriate comments and actions on the part of people at the top of our government. . . . I think it’s very unfortunate. And I think as a government and as a society we’re going to pay a price at some point for this.

If you want to know why Attorney General Barr was warning this week that the president’s tweets are undermining the Justice Department’s pursuit of its law-enforcement mission, Judge Walton’s words are worth heeding. I have been making this point since the start of the Trump presidency. If you want people held accountable for their crimes, you have to ensure their fundamental right to due process. When the government poisons the well, the bad guys reap the benefits.

Finally, we must note that when the District of Columbia is the venue for any prosecution with political overtones, Justice Department charging decisions must factor in the jury pool, which is solidly anti-Trump.

The proof that McCabe willfully deceived investigators appears strong — it is noteworthy that IG Horowitz, who has strained to give the FBI the benefit of the doubt in many dubious contexts, was unequivocal in slamming McCabe. Nevertheless, a D.C. jury would be weighing that evidence, as discounted by whatever pro-McCabe slant reluctant prosecution witnesses put on it. And the jury would be weighing against that evidence (a) whatever problems caused prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office to beg off, and more significantly, (b) defense arguments that McCabe would not have been fired or prosecuted if not for the fact that he had gotten crosswise with a president of the United States whom at least some of the jurors are apt to dislike.

Looking at all that baggage, the Justice Department must not have liked its chances.

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McCabe is not out of the woods yet, of course: The Durham investigation is a separate matter, and it is continuing. But it is unclear whether he will face any criminal charges arising from that inquiry, whereas the now-dead-and-buried false-statements case against him looked cut-and-dried.

The FBI’s former deputy director, though he undeniably misled investigators, remains a commentator at CNN. In the meantime, Papadopoulos is a felon convicted and briefly imprisoned for misleading investigators, while Flynn and Stone are awaiting sentencing on their false-statements charges. That covers both tiers of our justice system.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4082254&forum_id=2#39607548)



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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:12 PM
Author: olive curious property

Almost like the dood above u is retarded or disingenuous in his posts

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Date: February 14th, 2020 12:24 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version



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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:42 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version



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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:56 PM
Author: abnormal cracking garrison

Obeezy, how’s your holiday weekend going?

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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:02 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

Had a great weekend bro, but I'm at the office now (no holiday here). How about you?

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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:06 PM
Author: abnormal cracking garrison

GC is relentless. Does your firm not even observe President’s Day such that WFH is plausible?

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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:10 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

I'm sick of WFH man. Easier to get stuff done here. I'll be out by 4 PM though. In house is sweet

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Date: February 17th, 2020 1:11 PM
Author: abnormal cracking garrison

Forgot that you copped in house.

In any event: Fuck GC.

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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:53 AM
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Date: May 3rd, 2019 10:56 AM
Author: Concupiscible shrine

One set of records - Mueller was carrying you

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Date: May 3rd, 2019 11:40 AM
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Date: February 17th, 2020 12:56 PM
Author: abnormal cracking garrison



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Date: October 23rd, 2020 8:20 PM
Author: Unhinged Excitant New Version

Lol drake

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Date: August 18th, 2021 8:59 AM
Author: Histrionic indigo roommate

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