More McCabe - Gang of 8 informed of FBI Investigation into Trump

[NewJeffCT]

Not one single objection on any grounds. So, McConnell, Ryan, Nunes, McCarthy for Republicans... Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff and Warner for Democrats.

Link to tweet

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text of tweet:
McCabe confirms for the first time to @SavannahGuthrie on Today that the FBI informed the Gang 8 in May 2017 the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and "no on objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts."

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Kick/Rec!

"no one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Eight_(intelligence)#Members

Members
Under the "gang of eight" system, the executive branch of the United States discloses highly sensitive intelligence information to the following positions within the US congress:[6]

United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Adam Schiff (D, CA-28), Chair
Devin Nunes (R, CA-22), Ranking member
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Richard Burr (R, NC), Chair
Mark Warner (D, VA), Vice Chair
Leadership in the United States House of Representatives:
Nancy Pelosi (D, CA-12), Speaker of the House
Kevin McCarthy (R, CA-23), Minority leader
Leadership in the United States Senate:
Mitch McConnell (R, KY), Majority leader
Chuck Schumer (D, NY), Minority leader

Nunes did not object, Fascinating!

[FakeNoose]

20. I believe Diane Feinstein was in that meeting also

I remember when this was revealed and the press conference afterward. The "Gang of 8" couldn't talk about what they'd been told but they were all shaken and looked like they were shell-shocked. I could swear DiFi was in that group, and of course McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer and the others.

I need to go back and dig through those old news stories. If I can find it I'll post it here.

Edit to add: I found this story from March 9, 2017 about Director Comey meeting with the Gang of 8, and Senator Feinstein is also mentioned in the story. However she's not listed as one of those who attended Comey's briefing.
(link) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016180410

[Jarqui]

27. I remember that. I was looking for the video

Even Grassley looked a little shaken when they approached the cameras to comment.

It wasn't so much what they said. The look on their faces said so much more.

Trump whines about them not coming up with evidence of collusion (that many feel has been provided to some extent ... not enough for a criminal conviction is in the public domain ...)

But after all this time, how come Trump hasn't been able to clear himself?
- special counsel Mueller is a Republican
- former FBI Director James Comey was a Republican until 2016
- former acting FBI director McCabe was a Republican
- current FBI Director Wray, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- Intel chief Dan Coats, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- current CIA Director Gina Haspel, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- former CIA Director Pompeo, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- Acting AG Rosenstein, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- past AG Sessions, picked by Trump, is a Republican
- Republicans still control the Senate
- Republicans controlled the House until a few weeks ago
- Republicans control the Supreme Court

With that many Republican fingers on the scales of justice, Trump still hasn't been able to clear himself while his minions get sentenced to prison?

Trump nailed and discredited everyone who was looking into this early on: Clapper, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Yates, Bruce Ohr, etc

Then he has his minions lie their heads off.

And then he howls "where's the collusion?" having chopped the legs out of everyone who was looking into it.

[PJMcK]

2. Is one allowed to reveal the Gang of Eight meetings?

Since they're highly sensitive and secret, how can Mr. McCabe reveal what transpired in one of them?

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest page

NOW

[NewJeffCT]

7. Thanks

I guess Lindsay can stamp his feet and send out whiny tweets, but McConnell and Burr knew in the Senate

[Squinch]

4. Kick!

[spanone]

5. K&R...

[wishstar]

6. Nunes, Ryan, Burr and McConnell I believe were the Repubs in Gang of 8 back then

They all knew Trump/Russia was an issue especially after he swiftly tried to get sanctions lifted as soon as he took office in 2017 until McCain and others halted that and legislation was passed to prevent the wholesale lifting of sanctions.

All of the gang of 8 Repubs took plenty of NRA and Russia tainted campaign contribs so they were probably afraid to say anything that would draw attention to why they might object to a counterintelligence probe into Trump.

[Eyeball_Kid]

25. And that was their motivation for backing Trumpy from day one. n/t

[UpInArms]

8. All of the reRussLicans have been obstructing

and lying ...

They are in on this and just as guilty as tRump

[NewJeffCT]

9. But

they were told of the investigation and raised no objections - maybe they figured they'd ram through as many RW extremist judges as possible before the Trump House of Cards came crumbling down?

[PatSeg]

17. Yeah

And for republicans, winning is everything. It even trumps patriotism.

[LiberalFighter]

24. You mean they conspired to thwart the investigation.

I would hope that Mueller goes after them too for their treasonous actions. Connect all the dots so we all know who was involved.

[backtoblue]

10. K&R nt

[2naSalit]

11. Like I said way back when...

They are all complicit and will need to be removed from office, one way or another.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Now isn't that something.

Well, well, well.

[kentuck]

13. Actually, a Gang of Nine.

Someone told Trump all about it.

[llmart]

14. I might be a little late to the party but...

I just now had a chance to sit down and watch McCabe's interview on CBS 60 Minutes and his detailed telling of what had happened is just chilling. This is a story that needs to be kept front and center. I know we can process and discuss more than one thing at a time, but I also know that the media preys on the fact that Americans have short attention spans, so they'll move on to something else like Bernie Sanders, etc. Also, the media knows that most Americans can't grasp the enormity of something like this constitutional crisis (and why aren't they calling this a constitutional crisis when they could call Bill Clinton's affair that over and over again?).

I'm starting to see why some on DU are saying, how much more will it take before we do something about removing this Russian agent from our White House?

I was a very young adult when Watergate happened and I was aware of the possibility that Nixon was in fact a crook, but most of my cohorts of the time were not and didn't even want to discuss it because it was too complicated for them. This is before the internet when a person would have to make an effort to read different sources outside the local newspaper. I was not a college student at that time, so I didn't have access to what some college students might have, so I had to make the effort to try to understand just what Watergate was all about. But I do remember seeing 60 Minutes break it down so that the average person could get the gist of how we got to that point. I think nowadays most people want their news in quick soundbites or blurbs on a facebook page. In looking back at my younger self, I'm pretty amazed that I cared enough at 21, a young wife and mother of a newborn, to take the responsibility to inform and educate myself.

I believe what Andrew McCabe is saying. I was especially upset by what he told us Trump did to his wife and how he kept asking him to ask his wife how it felt to be a loser. What a goddamned hateful bully he is. Deplorable is too kind a word for Trump and his ilk.

[Eyeball_Kid]

26. McCabe is very credible.

I believe that he served his country with honor. He's not perfect, but he's sincere, he tells the truth as he sees it, and he's faithful to the Constitution.

[wiggs]

15. IIRC there was another briefing from which Feinstein emerged 'ashen-faced and

somber'

[OliverQ]

16. So Republicans have known Trump was under investigation for being a Russian

asset, yet they continued to protect him and obstruct justice.

There better be indictments for McConnell, Ryan, Nunes, and Burr.

[NewJeffCT]

18. especially Nunes

he should definitely get his time in the barrel

[Nitram]

19. Wow! That's a significant revelation.

[Farmer-Rick]

21. They all knew and did what..........

This is all about that short little man Putin buying up our democracy. Why can he so easily waltz in handing out big money and end up with a fucking moron as his puppet president? And for some well placed bribes, he gets the Senate and judiciary too. And 2 years later he, the short Russian, is still in charge of the US and will be for another 2 years.

They did a lot of talking but nothing else because they were bought off. When you buy up something in a capitalist system, it stays bought.

[onecaliberal]

22. Nunes was informing dump all along the way.

[Fuzzpope]

23. Now, apply this...

To that infamous scene where McConnell told Obama he saw no evidence of anything untoward regarding Trump and that he'd railroad any attempt to inform the American people.

McConnell.

McConnell.

McConnell.

Who is the radiant for all our ills?

McConnell.

McConnell.

McConnell.

[Baltimike]

28. so how much money did the gang of 8 take from Black ops? nt

[MFGsunny]

29. K & R ... + 1,000,000

They knew. They ALL knew.

And, of course, Nunes was Humpty Trumpty's tattle-tale - at every turn.

McCabe is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO doing our nation a favor by shedding light on these cockroaches.

[pecosbob]

30. So all that about not being a target of the investigation was just so much fart gas...

[NewJeffCT]

32. if Trump is talking or tweeting

he's lying

[ffr]

31. We've been living with one or more Russian Kompromat Asset(s) in the WH for two years.

You can extrapolate what horrors he's been instructed to wreak on our country on behalf of Russia's Putin.

TREASON!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

33. Lindsey Graham feels left out I guess

[malaise]

34. He sure is making up for it

[Scurrilous]

35. K&R