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PODCAST: Former FBI Director James Comey indicted!

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A federal grand jury Thursday indicted former FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice in relation to the heavily criticized Russia collusion probe that was launched under his leadership at the bureau.

The indictment, handed down by a grand jury seated in Alexandria, Virginia, makes Mr. Comey the highest ranking official to be charged in connection with the probe.

Mr. Trump, who saw his first term badly hobbled by the never-proven claims that he colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election, celebrated the news.
“Justice in America!” he wrote in all capital letters on Truth Social. “One of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to is James Comey, the former Corrupt Head of the FBI.”

The president said Mr. Comey “has been so bad for our Country for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation.”

Court documents say that Mr. Comey did “willfully and knowingly make a materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statement” in Congress “by falsely stating to a U.S. Senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’ regarding an FBI investigation concerning” Mr. Trump.

The second count accuses Mr. Comey of “corruptly endeavor[ing] to influence, obstruct and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before that committee.”

In a short statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the indictment “reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said the indictment fulfills “a promise of full accountability” for the weaponization and politicization of law enforcement, which he said was “nowhere more blatant than during the Russiagate hoax, a disgraceful chapter in history we continue to investigate and expose.”

The indictments sparked immediate criticism that President Trump is engaging in retribution and meddling with the Justice Department.

The charges came after significant pressure from Mr. Trump, who last week publicly called on Ms. Bondi to prosecute Mr. Comey and two other political enemies who mired him in impeachments, investigations and court cases: Sen. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Mr. Trump last week forced out Erik Siebert, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, after he failed to seek an indictment of Mr. Comey.

He replaced Mr. Siebert with White House aide Lindsey Halligan and she moved quickly to present a case to the grand jury to beat a five-year deadline on pursuing a criminal indictment on the false statements charge.

“In my almost six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, I never witnessed such a blatant abuse of the department,” Mr. Schiff posted on X after the indictment was announced. “The DOJ is now little more than an arm of the president’s retribution campaign.”

The charges stem from Mr. Comey’s Sept. 30, 2020, congressional testimony in which he told lawmakers under oath that he had not leaked information about the Russia collusion probe to members of the media and knew nothing about leaks.

His testimony contrasted that of his former deputy, Andrew McCabe, who told lawmakers that he informed Mr. Comey of a leak to reporters and that Mr. Comey approved, effectively authorizing it after the fact.

The grand jury that indicted Mr. Comey also heard testimony from one of his friends, Columbia University professor Daniel Richmond.

Mr. Comey gave Mr. Richmond classified information about the FBI’s Russia collusion probe to pass along to The New York Times, which published stories pushing the narrative that Mr. Trump and the Russians worked together to help him win the 2016 election.

Mr. Comey launched the FBI’s Russia collusion probe, known as Crossfire Hurricane, during Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Documents made public by the Trump administration show that top brass in the FBI and intelligence community were determined to stop Mr. Trump from winning the White House in 2016, and they talked about removing him from office months after his inauguration.

The probe was based in part on the phony Steele dossier, funded and created on behalf of rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign, that alleged Russia had damaging information about Mr. Trump, some of it extremely salacious.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Has No Problem Seeing Comey, Brennan Behind Bars For Russiagate Hoax

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THE OVAL OFFICE — President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller that it “would not bother” him to see James Comey and John Brennan arrested as a result of his administration’s investigation into Russiagate.

The Daily Caller sat down with Trump for an hour-long interview on Friday. Trump told Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese that while he isn’t directly involved in the Russiagate investigation, he does believe it should result in arrests.

The following is an unedited excerpt from the interview. A full transcript will be made available Monday.

DAILY CALLER WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT REAGAN REESE: I want to ask you about Russiagate. Director Gabbard has declassified Russiagate documents. They’re explosive. She’s referred the case to the DOJ.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: By the way, she’s coming along, right?

REESE: Yeah. Do you think there are going to be arrests? Who do you think is going to be arrested, and how quickly?

TRUMP: I don’t know if there’s going to be. There should be. What they did is a disgrace. They cheated, they lied, they did so many bad things, evil things that were so bad for the country, and because they did something to me that should have never been done, nobody thought they’d ever do that. Actually, when I left, nobody thought that would happen. They get – they just went crazy. They’re bad people. They’re sick people. They’re the ones that committed all the crimes. We didn’t commit crimes. They committed all the crimes, there should be, I can’t tell you whether or not because I really I don’t have to stay uninvolved. I’m allowed to stay involved, but I purposely don’t get involved. I can say that they should be arrested.

TRUMP: They lied, they cheated, they did everything you can do that’s illegal, and then they accused — it’s amazing, even I see it now with me. They say he’s actually looking to arrest him. What the hell did they do with me? You know? And then they’ll say he’s – they make it sound like I’m a bad guy. I had to have a mug shot taken, right? Yeah, these are bad people. They’re sick people, and, you know, the press plays along with it. But they should be. I mean, I’m probably answering the question more than you think I should. They should be [arrested]  because they’re crooked and they got caught.

REESE: So James Comey and John Brennan, would you be comfortable seeing them handcuffed and arrested live on TV?

TRUMP: Would not bother me at all.

REAGAN: Do you think it’s a possibility?

TRUMP: See, I wouldn’t have answered that question that way four years ago.  Do you understand that? I wouldn’t. Because, well, Hillary’s a good example. We had Hillary cold. I didn’t want to see that. I didn’t want the, you know, the wife of a president, to go to jail, but she was stone cold guilty of things. And if you remember, at the, at the big rallies, I’d say, ‘Alright, take it easy.’ You know, they’d all say, ‘Lock her up. Lock her up.’ After we won, before I won, just, they could do whatever they wanted. After I won – yeah, I was very gracious. And I assumed that, you know, I was a president, we had a great first term, first, not like this one, though.

REESE: Yeah, this feels different.

TRUMP:  It’s better. It’s, I don’t even know, I don’t think it’s experience. If you look at the first term of this, you know, we had a great first and we had a great economy. We rebuilt the military, we did the wall, we did the whole thing. And we did great on immigration. But the thing is, that immigration was peanuts compared to what they left me, because when I mean they left, people were coming in, millions of people a month. Remember that they had a period of time, seven months, when anybody in the world just poured into this place, and we have to, we have to get them out, because they’re very, very dangerous.

TRUMP: No, if, depending on what they find, they’re guilty, they’re guilty. They’re bad people, and they are very, very sick people, beyond bad. They’re sick.

Gabbard released documents in July which showed what she said was “overwhelming evidence” that former President Barack Obama and his national security team “manufactured and politicized intelligence” after Trump’s 2016 victory. Gabbard referred the case to the Department of Justice. 

Comey and Brennan are two potential indictments that could come first in connection to their roles in pushing the fake narrative that Trump officials colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, the Caller previously reported.

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Reagan Reese

White House Correspondent

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In Wake Of ‘Russiagate’ Revelations, Americans Are Demanding Indictments — Who Could Be First?

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Americans have called for officials to face consequences after the July declassification of documents regarding the intelligence community’s (IC) role in the false narrative that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, but the Trump administration could face legal hurdles.

A recent poll found that more than two-thirds of Americans want someone held accountable for what is now deemed “Russiagate” — and with JD Vance’s Sunday claim that “a lot of people [are going to] get indicted,” people are curious to see who will be held accountable by the grand jury investigation.

Former President Barack Obama’s Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey could be high on a list of potential indictments.

Comey headed the agency during the initiation and primary phase of the investigations into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election and accusations of potential connections between members of the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Comey was directly involved in the investigation. He told Congress the FBI had not verified the now-debunked Steele dossier before using it to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump’s former campaign adviser Carter Page.

This FISA warrant allowed the FBI to conduct surveillance activities on Page, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) ultimately ruled the two final FISA directives against Page were invalid — including one Comey authorized in 2017.

In a July interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, law professor and author Jonathan Turley questioned whether the remarks made by both Comey and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan in their testimonies amounted to perjury.

Turley said both men are “sophisticated players” who are “very careful in how they word” their testimonies. They claimed in their testimonies there was no “malicious intent” in including the Steele dossier in the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), but that mistakes may have been made, Turley told Ingraham.

“Comey portrayed himself as ignorant of all these countervailing sources,” Turley concluded.

Brennan might find himself in the same boat as Comey, especially given whistleblower accusations alleging Brennan played a key role in pushing for the dossier’s inclusion in the ICA.

Trump’s FBI launched a criminal investigation into Brennan and Comey in July, DOJ sources told Fox Digital. Two sources told the outlet the FBI viewed Comey and Brennan’s interactions as a “conspiracy,” but did not reveal specific details of what is being investigated.

President of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton, told the Daily Caller in an interview that investigating a conspiracy could open the door to related crimes, including perjury and the deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

Perjury is relatively easy to indict over, but not necessarily easy to convict, according to Fitton.

Even if any officials are indicted, there are still hurdles that need to be cleared, namely the statute of limitations, Fitton told the Caller. The standard statute of limitations (or the maximum amount of time to start the legal process) is five years, but the beginning of the Russian interference investigations was nearly 10 years ago.

To bypass the statute of limitations — which is necessary for turning indictments into convictions -— the accusers must prove the involved parties were participating in a conspiracy, not just “a series of desperate acts that don’t have any link” potentially woven together by the opposition party in political animus, Fitton told the Caller.

Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper wrote a July 30 op-ed in the New York Times (NYT) in an attempt to set the record straight. They claimed the Steele dossier was not used as a source or accounted for in the ICA’s analysis or conclusions, acknowledging the dossier was largely discredited.

However, a press release published by ODNI that same day claimed accompanying records show “Clapper and other senior Obama administration officials privately denounced the Steele dossier, despite simultaneously ensuring that the January 2017 ICA included it.”

These documents, like some of the other records declassified by the IC, are based on the testimony of a single, unnamed whistleblower — which could prove difficult in demonstrating malicious intent beyond a reasonable doubt.

A separate anonymous career intelligence officer who worked with House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) Democrats told the FBI in 2017 that then-Democrat California Rep. Adam Schiff allegedly approved leaking classified information with the goal of indicting Trump, according to a memo released Monday.

Schiff’s Senate office previously told the Caller the accusation was a “baseless [smear]” and questioned the credibility of the whistleblower.

Former FBI Special Agent in Charge Jody Weis told NBC 15 on Tuesday that leaking information is a crime.

“Leaking information is a crime, no doubt about it,” Weis stated. “Leaking information with the intent to smear a president, with the intent to perhaps indict a president, that should terrify every American in this country, regardless of party.”

When the whistleblower’s accusation was initially brought before the DOJ, officials allegedly dismissed the allegation of the leaking, claiming, “congressmen have immunity to all speech and actions made on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,” according to the FBI memos. The DOJ was referencing the Constitution’s Speech and Debate Clause.

Former intelligence officials are not the only ones who may face indictments. The recently declassified documents from the John Durham 2023 Special Counsel report annex may open the door for criminal charges against Clinton campaign staff and other individuals in the Obama administration.

Information recently released to the public suggested former President Barack Obama planned to snuff out the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information and her use of a private email server. Simultaneously, the records revealed the FBI failed to investigate information alleging the Democratic Party was planning to connect Trump to the “Russian mafia.”

But challenges can still arise in obtaining convictions, even though analysts assessed the declassified emails were authentic, according to documents.

The plaintiff still needs to overcome the statute of limitations and would have to show the courts, beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant’s alleged actions met the high legal standard for criminal intent.

As the head of a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, Fitton offered advice on how the Trump administration could overcome many of these hurdles, potentially obtaining indictments or even convictions.

Fitton told the Caller that by focusing their attention on the accusations of criminal activity in 2016, the administration is missing the “low-hanging fruit” of more recent corruption targets.

“To get at what happened in 2016 is gonna be very complicated; to get out what happened last year, that’s easy,” Fitton told the Caller. “There’s no statute of limitations, so you don’t have to weave in a grand conspiracy claim.”

Fitton gave examples of places the administration should focus its attention, including former Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland’s unprosecuted referral for contempt and Comey’s Instagram post that Fitton claimed “basically threatened the president’s life.”

As for “Russiagate,” Fitton called for Trump to “appoint a special counsel that reports directly to him” to tackle the issue.

“The Justice Department is compromised because they’re going to have to investigate themselves in many of these issues, so is the FBI. So he’s got to have someone who’s free and clear of those bureaucracies, but with all the powers that come with the presidency and prosecuting cases, and that’s done through a presidential special counsel,” Fitton told the Caller.

“Because of the deep state actors that are still floating around … there has to be a more direct presidential intervention,” he added.

Derek VanBuskirk

Reporter

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Oversight Committee Moves To Subpoena The Clintons, Comey, Garland And Others In Epstein Probe

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Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena a slate of former top officials in a rare show of bipartisanship.

Oversight Chairman James Comer said the committee’s new ranking Democrat, California Rep. Robert Garcia, joined Republicans in authorizing subpoenas for Bill and Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, William Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales.

“I commend Representative Robert Garcia for being bipartisan in one of his first official acts as Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee, Comer wrote on X.

Garcia also sent a letter to Comer urging Republicans to immediately subpoena the Department of Justice for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement, Garcia framed the move as a Democratic victory.

“The Oversight Committee is preparing subpoenas for these individuals and the Epstein files and will issue them in the near future,” he said. “Committee Democrats won the fight for transparency, successfully passing a motion to force the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files,” he continued. “Today, I’m writing to Chairman Comer requesting he immediately make good on his promise to issue the official subpoena.”

“This is not the time for Republicans to drag their feet,” he added.

“We will keep pushing until the American people finally get the truth they deserve – nothing less,” Comer said.

Democrats pushed for a vote compelling Chairman Comer to issue a subpoena for the files, which Rep. Garcia hailed in a post on X as “a major victory for Oversight Democrats.”

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Ashley Brasfield

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Past Clips Of Obama’s Intel Chiefs May Come Back To Bite Them Following Russiagate Docs Release

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Former Obama administration intelligence officials’ past statements don’t appear to match what newly declassified information shows about key aspects of their findings on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump’s intelligence officials have been declassifying documents containing intelligence findings from the Obama administration on Russia and the 2016 election. The documents appear to contradict past statements by former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper during television interviews and before Congress.

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For instance, Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in February 2018 that the discredited Steele Dossier “did not play any role whatsoever in the intelligence community assessments that was done that was presented to then President Obama and then President-elect Trump.”

A 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) found that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 election with “a clear preference” for Trump. The CIA’s June review of the ICA found that Brennan pushed to include the Steele Dossier in the ICA.

The Steele Dossier was compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele on behalf of Fusion GPS — a research firm indirectly hired by former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s campaign through the law firm Perkins Coie, The Associated Press reported. The dossier has been widely discredited, including by legacy media organizations like The New York Times.

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Moreover, Comey asserted during 2017 testimony that the Russians “interfered” in the 2016 election using “overwhelming technical efforts,” saying his statements were based on “a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community.”

“It’s not a close call. That happened,” Comey said. “That’s about as unfake as you can possibly get.”

However, DNI Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a declassified file that appears to contradict Comey’s statement.

The file shows the FBI and NSA [National Security Agency] had only “low confidence” in blaming Russia for data leaks in September 2016.

“They agree that the disclosures appear consistent with what we might expect from Russian influence activities but note that we lack sufficient technical details to correlate the information posted online to Russian state-sponsored actors,” it states.

The memo accompanying the declassified file nonetheless acknowledged “supporting evidence indicating the Russian government directed hacking of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] and [the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee].”

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Furthermore, Clapper said on CNN’s “State of the Union” in 2018 that Russia wanted to damage Clinton and assist Trump in the 2016 election.

But a new intelligence report Gabbard published contains declassified information showing senior intelligence community officials suppressed evidence contradicting the finding that Putin wanted Trump to beat Clinton.

The report shows Russia had intelligence that alleged Clinton was taking “heavy tranquilizers” daily, but did not release it.

“The judgement that Putin developed a ‘clear preference for candidate Trump and ‘aspired to help his chances of victory’ did not adhere to the tenets of the ICD (Intelligence Community Directive) analytical standards,” according to the report.

The 2017 ICA directed by Obama found Russia had conspired to damage Clinton’s chances of victory, stating that the CIA and the FBI assessed with “high confidence” that Russia wanted to boost Trump’s campaign.

Brennan “ordered the post-election publication of 15 reports containing previously collected but unpublished intelligence, three of which were substandard – containing information that was unclear, of uncertain origin, potentially biased or implausible – and those became foundational sources for the ICA judgements that Putin preferred Trump over Clinton,” the report states.

One “scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of these substandard reports constitutes the only classified information cited to suggest Putin ‘aspired’ to help Trump win,” it states.

Brennan, Comey and Clapper did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Jason Cohen

DCNF Reporter/Clipper

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James Comey Deletes ‘8647’ Post After Online Backlash Sparks Calls For Investigation

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Former FBI Director James Comey deleted a post depicting ‘8647’ from his Instagram on Thursday after sparking online outrage from Republicans and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, who opened an investigation.

In a now-deleted post to Instagram, Comey uploaded a picture of shells that depicted four numbers, ‘8647,’ saying he found the ‘cool shell formation’ during his walk on the beach. Republicans swiftly called out the former FBI director, saying the message was a threat to President Donald Trump as the term ’86’ is commonly used to “get rid of” or “throw out.”

With backlash piling on from figures like Trump’s senior advisor Dan Scavino Jr. and Donald Trump Jr., Comey deleted his original post and added a new one saying he didn’t “realize” the association of the numbers.

“I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message. I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence of any kind so I took the post down,” Comey wrote.

WATCH: Former FBI director James Comey under investigation for Trump post

Prior to the takedown of his post, Trump Jr. took to X saying Comey is “causally calling for my dad to be murdered.”

“This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!!”

Scavino Jr., in another post on X, called the former FBI director a “POS,” alleging he “knows exactly what he’s doing.”

“Comey truly is a POS. While he’ll claim not to know what 8647 means, there’s no doubt that the former disgraced FBI Dir. knows exactly what he’s doing, with a plea to bad actors/terrorists to assassinate the POTUS’ while traveling internationally,” Scavino Jr. wrote. “Don’t let him get away with it!!”

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said on X that Comey is making “cringe posts,” adding that the country should be “grateful” he was removed from the law enforcement agency.

“James Comey held himself up as a bastion of fairness and moral rectitude,” Kirk wrote. “Now, he makes cringe posts like a childless 50-year-old liberal woman on Facebook. The entire country should be grateful Trump put this weirdo out to pasture.”

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also spoke out, asking how “many times” Democrats are “going to try to assassinate President Trump”?

Noem in response said Comey “called for the assassination” of the 47th president, adding that both DHS and the Secret Service will investigate the “threat and will respond appropriately.”

FBI Director Kash Patel said on X that the agency is aware of the post, adding they are in “communication with the Secret Service and Director Curran.”

“Primary jurisdiction is with SS on these matters and we, the FBI, will provide all necessary support,” Patel wrote.

Trump has yet to publicly respond to Comey’s post. The president left the United States and this week is conducting discussions in Saudi Arabia. During Trump’s 2024 campaign, he faced two assassination attempts, with the first leaving him injured by a bullet and one rally attendee killed.

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VIDEO: James Comey likens Trump to al-Qaeda, says he has ‘radicalized’ terrorists through ‘lies’

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This is a very dangerous game Comey is playing, all the while posing as the one who is defending us from terrorist violence.

Trump never called for violent attacks against anyone, much less for storming the Capitol. Al-Qaeda, by contrast, has called for violent attacks innumerable times. To equate the two and say that they both “radicalize terrorists” is to claim to be able to discern the intent and/or effects of Trump’s words and claim that they were intended to incite violence and were successful in doing so despite the fact that he never called for or approved of any violence.

If Comey and his comrades are successful, and the House already advanced this notion by impeaching Trump for a second time, they will have created a precedent. The precedent will be that it doesn’t matter so much what exactly you say, but what the authorities think it means, or thinks its effects will be. Authoritarians can use this arrogated power of discernment to shut down anyone they don’t like. That’s where we’re headed, and Comey is doing his best to make sure we get there.

“James Comey Says Trump’s Lies Created Terrorists: ‘This Is How Al-Qaida Radicalized’ (Video),” by Margeaux Sippell, The Wrap, January 15, 2021 (thanks to Henry):

Former FBI director James Comey paid a visit to “The View” on Friday during which he explained his belief that President Trump’s “constant torrent of lies” has radicalized his supporters to the point of becoming domestic terrorists — and he compared Trump’s methods to those of al-Qaida.

“They are terrorists. They are people bent on coercing a civilian government — attacking our democracy — because of their warped view of reality,” Comey, who was fired by Trump in 2017, said of the Capitol rioters on “The View.”…

“This is how al-Qaida radicalized: a constant, constant torrent of lies at vulnerable people,” he said. “Well, we have millions of vulnerable people in this country who’ve consumed these lies, and some portion of them have been radicalized to the point where they believe they’re on the side of the angels and have to engage in violence directed against us. So it’s a serious threat, it’s a terrorist threat, and Donald Trump and his enablers — we want to make sure we keep the receipts, ’cause a lot of people are going to deny they had any connection to it come a few months from now — but that group of people has radicalized a group of terrorists.”

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Acting FBI Director McCabe needs to go because of his wife Jill

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The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and CNN all reported that the acting FBI Director Andrew G. McCabe contradicted the White House’s assertion that James B. Comey had lost the support of rank-and-file FBI agents. So why are these news organizations highlighting McCabe? Perhaps it is because of his wife Dr. Jill McCabe, who ran for the Virginia state Senate as a Democrat?

What these news outlets fail to tell you about his wife Dr. Jill McCabe is her connection to long time Hillary Clinton supporter and governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe.

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe campaigning with his wife Jill.

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe campaigning with his wife Jill.

In The Daily Signal article Here Are 12 Possible Comey Replacements at FBI Fred Lucas reports:

Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI director who was the deputy director under Comey, testified on Capitol Hill Thursday. He is also reportedly a contender for the job, but could be challenged due to potential conflicts.

McCabe served as an FBI special agent since 1996, and was elevated to the No. 2 spot in 2016. However, while he was moving up in the FBI during the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, his wife Dr. Jill McCabe ran for the Virginia state Senate in 2015, with a financial boost of almost $500,000 from Common Good VA. The political action committee is controlled by longtime Clinton ally Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

In a statement to The Wall Street Journal last year, the FBI said, “Months after the completion of [his wife’s] campaign, then-Associate Deputy Director McCabe was promoted to deputy, where, in that position, he assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails.”

“It needs to be somebody independent,” said Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director of the criminal investigative division and now president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. “With McCabe, this day and age, even the appearance of impropriety is a problem … An appearance can be fatal—maybe not to a career—but to advancement.”

Hillary Clinton campaigning with long time ally Terry McAuliffe, governor of Virginia.

Hillary Clinton campaigning with long time ally Terry McAuliffe, governor of Virginia.

The Daily Beast reports:

The news [of Dr. Jill McCabe’s McAuliffe connection] drew calls for McCabe to publicly recuse himself from anything involving the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s email scandal. But he didn’t do that, and conservatives haven’t forgotten.

“He should be removed as acting director and then either fired or demoted,” Mark Corallo, spokesperson for John Ashcroft when he was Attorney General, told The Daily Beast. “When he did not recuse himself from the investigation despite knowing his wife received major campaign contributions from Terry McAuliffe, he broke the ethics rules and tainted the investigation. Time for him to go.”

It appears the reason McCabe is defending Comey and wants the Russian investigation to move forward may be because he is complicit in the failure by the FBI to indict Hillary Clinton and those implicated in creating, maintaining and scrubbing the email server, which contained classified information.

Mr. McCabe needs to go.

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