On May 21, 2017, Andrew McCabe rebuffed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s suggestion to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, dismissing concerns over his wife’s political campaign as irrelevant to his leadership. Declassified memos reveal McCabe’s resolve to steer the probe, even as later reports by John Durham and Michael Horowitz exposed deep flaws in the FBI’s handling of the collusion allegations.
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Newly Unclassified Memos Show How Disgraced FBI Leader Kept Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Alive in 2017
Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel.
Read MoreCommentary: A Weaponized FBI Is Real and Whistleblowers Say They Have the Scars to Prove It
Democrats have cast the Trump administration’s ouster of eight senior FBI leaders as a “purge” and act of “retribution” from a weaponized Justice Department, some likening it to President Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.”
But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.
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