WSJ piece suggests possible payoff to spouse of FBI Deputy Director by Clinton Allies

From Wall Street Journal
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Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife

Group linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe donated nearly half a million dollars to 2015 state Senate candidate

Intro excerpt found here - worth reading. Because of fair use, I have replaced that text with the following when the pay wall let me in to show you what may be harder to access:

FBI officials said that after that meeting with the governor in Richmond on March 7, Mr. McCabe sought ethics advice from the bureau and followed it, avoiding involvement with public corruption cases in Virginia, and avoiding any campaign activity or events.

Mr. McCabe’s supervision of the Clinton email case in 2016 wasn’t seen as a conflict or an ethics issue because his wife’s campaign was over by then and Mr. McAuliffe wasn’t part of the email probe, officials said.

“Once I decided to run,” Dr. McCabe said, “my husband had no formal role in my campaign other than to be a supportive husband to me and our children. As a federal official…everyone who participated in our campaign understood and respected that he could not participate.”

Highlights include that Dr. McCabe decided to run at right about the time the server/email issue was revealed in March 2015. At the time, Mr. McCabe was Associate Deputy Director and did not yet have any oversight capacity in the email investigation:

The FBI said in a statement that during his wife’s campaign Mr. McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind. Months after the completion of her 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.”

Sounds like a story we'll hear more about in the coming week.

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Pricknick's picture

all of the quid pro quo's, they all will have all been made legal.
Sewage is too nice of a thing to call these people but the proper words may offend some.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

I wonder if the founders ever considered such a possibility.

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“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

MsGrin's picture

presumably for doing so... Hopefully, someone with actual knowledge will present that here.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

edg's picture

In both of the impeachments in history, the Senate refused to convict. If Clinton gets elected and Democrats take over the Senate, conviction will be off the table. A Republican Senate might convict, but it seems highly doubtful.

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Bisbonian's picture

they would later regret.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

It takes a 2/3 majority to convict in the Senate which is a very high bar no matter who has the majority.

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lunachickie's picture

I should put "friends" in quotes, huh? Wink

I thought they got pretty close with Big Dog, but my memory could be wrong...

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On to Biden since 1973

Thaumlord-Exelbirth's picture

as "made up garbage by rapist pedophile assange" by HRC bots. Not kidding, just had some moron say that to me on twitter, followed immediately by them blocking my account.

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MsGrin's picture

...although a quasi Hillbot I know screams that it's a right wing rag if I cite it.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

Thaumlord-Exelbirth's picture

that's enough for the Hillbots to decide that it came directly from wikileaks. Sad, isn't it? That we're at a point where the Limbaugh dittoheads are sounding more reasonable than the Hillbots?

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Alligator Ed's picture

I never thought I would listen to Fox Spews. I wish there was a none of the above choice in all states.

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Bisbonian's picture

sounds like a good outcome.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

edg's picture

I wouldn't follow anyone on Twitter that would want me to follow them.

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Citizen Of Earth's picture

when it comes to Hellery.

"My husband had no formal role in my campaign other than to be a supportive husband to me and our children."

Oh brother. Do you have a bridge you could sell me?

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Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.

Bisbonian's picture

again.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

SparkyGump's picture

Nothing like the politics of distraction.

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The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.