Quote (thundercock @ Mar 18 2018 01:39pm)
I think the most important article is the one McCabe himself ghost-wrote, the WSJ one that got him fired:
http://archive.is/u1RODLawfareblog doesn't want to delve into the evidence without the OIG / OPR reports to confirm what everyone already knows, but we can look and see exactly what McCabe was doing. He was leaking all the gory details of the Clinton investigation to the WSJ in order to do damage control both for himself and Hillary in the immediate followout of Comey's announcement and Weiner's disappear laptop. And from the evidence, they had ample reasons to fire McCabe.
Instead that article just seems caught up in the superficial aspects of the timing and process. They are talking about the same kind of political interference and rationale for obstructing an investigation without presumption of good faith that is precisely what got us into this mess when Comey publicly announced Hillary's investigation for his stated reason of anticipating the fallout of conspiracy theorists after the election. If the FBI held off on taking disciplinary action against McCabe because of the
optics of the politicized process, they would be repeating the same trap. Look at the parallels to all the Clinton investigation arguments that Comey himself cited as reasons for his public announcement, which is what got
him fired:
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In the end, such conduct necessarily taints the merits of the action against McCabe. Even if the Justice Department’s process proves pure as the driven snow and the case against McCabe proves compelling, who is going to believe—in the face of overt presidential demands for a corrupt Justice Department—that a Justice Department that gives the president what he wants is anything less than the lackey he asks for? The Justice Department career officials involved in this action know this. They know they are being made to look like lackeys, which may be reason to assume that they will have dotted every “i” and crossed every “t” in this instance—and that the facts against McCabe must be bad. But the politicization of law enforcement takes place either way—the latest and perhaps one of the most extreme instances of politicization in a chain of events that has embroiled the FBI in partisan politics since the beginning of the Clinton email investigation. If this action is the political attack that McCabe says it is, everyone involved is responsible for a terrible smear and a horrific abuse of a longtime public servant. But if the dismissal is absolutely justified and the public doesn’t believe that, the integrity of law enforcement suffers as well.
Comey himself could have written such a paragraph about his reasons. The integrity of law enforcement would suffer if America found out the FBI opened up an investigation into Hillary just before the election and
kept it quiet because their rules on disclosure told them to do so. It would have been seen as proof of conspiracy by the red hats and Hillary would throw the FBI and Comey under the bus and he knew all that was coming, so he went ahead and 'informed congress' in violation of FBI disclosure policy.
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