Reveling in More Russiagate

Poor Andy "insurance policy" McCabe: Former Deputy FBI Director About To Be Torched For Misleading Inspector General, Signing Off On ‘Improper Media Disclosure’

McCabe has been a controversial figure at the bureau. He’s directly mentioned in the text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and bureau attorney Lisa Page. The number of messages are in the tens of thousands, but they’re pro-Hillary and explicitly anti-Trump. This is not something you can tolerate during a counterintelligence investigation into Russia-Trump collusion, which Strzok signed off on in July of 2016. It’s not something that’s tolerable when you’re investigating Hillary Clinton’s email server, which Strzok was also apart of—and there’s even a text from Page wondering if the FBI was going too hard on the former first lady. The allegation of the fix being in is palpable. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who now heads the FBI’s collusion probe, found out about the texts last summer, he removed Strzok and transferred him to human resources in August of 2017. Strzok was a top counterintelligence agent.

The other eyebrow raising text was one sent by Strzok to Page on August 15, 2016, where the former mentions meeting with “Andy,” McCabe, and mentions an “insurance policy.” That insurance is alleged to be the Trump dossier, compiled by a British ex-spook who was contracted by Fusion GPS after their services were retained by the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was opposition research that looks like was used to secure a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump adviser Carter Page. The two also discussed ways to skirt federal records regulations, so why are they still at the FBI? That’s a tale for another time. For now, we await the DOJ’s report on McCabe and how this is part of a long and sad story about how the nation’s preeminent law enforcement and domestic intelligence agency become engulfed in politics, damaging its reputation for professionalism and impartiality on its investigations. Last December, McCabe also drew the ire of House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee after he said he didn’t know where the dossier’s funding came from, despite signed documents by him showing that he knew how this document was financed.

Ace:  Inspector General Investigating Andrew McCabe for Illegal Leaking to Press, Misleading Investigators About It

So "some FBI agents" believed McCabe put the kaibosh on the Clinton Foundation investigation, but "one person close to Mr. McCabe" says that Mr. McCabe did nothing wrong.

Oh, okay.

Did his mom write his "Andy is a good boy and did nothing wrong" excuse card for him?

My prediction is that the report will make him look bad, but not dirty, and Hororwitz or Mueller will not attempt to prosecute and wreck him financially like they have Flynn and Manafort. You just don't do that to a fellow government servant.

Mueller seems to be poking his nose everywhere but the alleged Russia meddling scandal:Mueller’s Focus on Adviser to U.A.E. Indicates Broader Inquiry, Mueller Team Asking If Kushner Foreign Business Ties Influenced Trump Policy

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has asked witnesses about Kushner’s efforts to secure financing for his family’s real estate properties, focusing specifically on his discussions during the transition with individuals from Qatar and Turkey, as well as Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates, according to witnesses who have been interviewed as part of the investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to sway the 2016 election.

From the Department of "Takes one to know one" Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice

Where there's smoke, there's smoke. Mike Allen at Axios: The Mueller stories worth ignoring.

Why it doesn't matter: All we know is what yappy witnesses tell reporters they were asked about.

• News flash: Mueller is looking at everything.
• That's his job. When he was named, he was empowered/instructed to look into the "FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters." That there is a broad mandate.
• This gives us literally zero insight into what the special counsel is actually doing and thinking.

Facebook's Russian Troll Problem Just Got Worse with Revelations of Instagram Coverup. Just follow the money. Facebook and Instagram are in it for the money.

Contradictions In Seth Rich Murder Continue To Challenge Hacking Narrative

As rumors swirl that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing a case against Russians who are alleged to have hacked Democrats during the 2016 election - a conclusion based solely on the analysis of cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, a Friday op-ed in the Washington Times by retired U.S. Navy admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. asks a simple, yet monumentally significant question: Why haven't Congressional Investigators or Special Counsel Robert Mueller addressed the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich - who multiple people have claimed was Wikileaks' source of emails leaked during the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
Mueller has been incredibly thorough in his ongoing investigations - however he won't even respond to Kim Dotcom, the New Zealand entrepreneur who clearly knew about the hacked emails long before they were released, claims that Seth Rich obtained them with a memory stick, and has offered to provide proof to the Special Counsel investigation.

Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS claimed that someone had been killed over the "Russian dossier." Was it Rich? Insider Ed Butowsky Talks More About the Seth Rich Case

“There are no DNC or Podesta emails that exist beyond May 21 or 22, last email from either one of those groups. What the report says is that some time in late Spring… he makes contact with WikiLeaks, that’s in his computer,” he says. “Anyway, they found what he had done is that he had submitted a series of documents — of emails, of juicy emails, from the DNC.”

“All I know is that he offered a sample, an extensive sample, I’m sure dozens of emails, and said ‘I want money.’ Later, WikiLeaks did get the password, he had a DropBox, a protected DropBox,” he said. They got access to the DropBox.”

Hersh also states that Rich had concerns about something happening to him, and had shared the DropBox with trusted associates incase anything happened to him.

“The word was passed, according to the NSA report, he also shared this DropBox with a couple of friends, so that ‘if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problems,’” he added. “WikiLeaks got access before he was killed.”

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