Andrew McCabe: We Told Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan About the FBI Counterintelligence Investigation
Andrew McCabe: We Told Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan About the FBI Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-mccabe-we-told-mitch-mcconnell-and-paul-ryan-about-the-fbi-counterintelligence-investigation-into-trump?ref=home
Jamie Ross at the Daily Beast
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Andrew McCabe has claimed for the first time that he told the Gang of Eight—including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan—that the FBI opened up a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trumpafter the firing of James Comey. He claims none of them even tried to object.
The former acting director of the FBIappeared live on the Today show Tuesday morning and added to the volley of accusations he’s leveled at Trump over the past two weeks. He confirmed to NBC’s Savannah Guthrie that U.S. intelligence thought it was “possible” that Trump was actively working on behalf of Russia during and after his election.
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McCabe was asked directly if he informed the Gang of Eight about the investigation and replied: “The purpose of the briefing was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we’d been doing. Opening a case of this nature, not something that an FBI director, not something than an acting FBI director, can do by yourself, right?”
“This is a recommendation that came to me from my team, I reviewed it with our lawyers, I discussed it at length with the deputy attorney general, and I told Congress what we had done.”
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