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Ex-FBI official McCabe gives memo on Comey firing to Mueller: New York Times

 

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FILE PHOTO: Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe arrives to testify before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer/File Photo

 

 

 

(Reuters) - Former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe wrote a confidential memo last spring recounting a conversation that provided "significant behind-the-scenes" details on the firing of former FBI director James Comey, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

 

The Times reported that McCabe had turned in his memo to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating whether Moscow colluded with President Donald Trump's campaign to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election. Comey's firing is one part of Mueller's inquiries into whether Trump tried to obstruct the investigation.

 

McCabe and the Justice Department declined to comment to the Times.

 

The Times reported, citing several people familiar with the discussion, that in the document McCabe described a conversation at the Justice Department with Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein after Comey was abruptly fired. Rosenstein had played a main role in Comey's May 2017 dismissal, writing a memo in which he rebuked Comey over his handling of an investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the election campaign.

 

But in the meeting at the Justice Department Rosenstein added a new detail: that Trump had originally asked him to reference Russia in his memo, The Times reported, citing the sources familiar. Rosenstein did not elaborate on what Trump had wanted him to say, according to the newspaper.

 

Trump's lawyers have cited Rosenstein's involvement in Comey's firing as proof that there was no effort to obstruct justice, the Times reported.

 

The Times reported that Trump wanted Rosenstein to mention that he was not personally under investigation in the Russia probe, but Rosenstein did not include the reference. Until his dismissal, Comey had been leading an investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia.

 

The Kremlin has denied meddling in the election and Trump has denied that there was any collusion between his campaign and Moscow officials.

 

(Shalini Nagarajan in Bengaluru; editing by Grant McCool)

 
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Investigate the investigators. These FBI,DOJ,Clapper and Brennan make J Edger look like a playground keeper.Some professional Officials they turned out to be.Can't expect the DOJ to investigate themselves! And what news source can one believe! Let it all out,4 Fisa's and the extended redacted scope memo of Rosenstein.

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5 hours ago, riclag said:

Investigate the investigators. These FBI,DOJ,Clapper and Brennan make J Edger look like a playground keeper.Some professional Officials they turned out to be.Can't expect the DOJ to investigate themselves! And what news source can one believe! Let it all out,4 Fisa's and the extended redacted scope memo of Rosenstein.

Yeah, then add in the biggest liar-in-command to the mix and that is what we have to look forward to--lies from the liars about the liar's lying about other liar's lies. 

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5 minutes ago, bedouin1990 said:

 I would love to hear some I would love to hear some new form of crying from the disappointed lefties. Their tunes have ceased to even be laughable!

No it is not laughable...

 

Using "Enemies of the State" and false information to gain public office and misuse of public office is not laughable, should be a hanging offence.

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1 hour ago, bedouin1990 said:

 I would love to hear some I would love to hear some new form of crying from the disappointed lefties. Their tunes have ceased to even be laughable!

Might as well get used to it because every major special council investigation since Watergate has lasted at least 3.5 years ?

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And in other news, Cohen’s lawyers have admitted in court that Cohen has taped all his phone conversations going back years.

 

The tapes are locked in his lawyers safe.

 

And in other other news, Cohen thought shredding documents would prevent the FBI from reading them.

 

The truth will (despite Trump’s best efforts) out.

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