WSJ piece suggests possible payoff to spouse of FBI Deputy Director by Clinton Allies
Close Clinton ally gave $467,500 to wife of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who was investigating Clinton https://t.co/AE8EkX5o4Y
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 24, 2016
From Wall Street Journal
Behind Pay Wall
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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By the time they confirm
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.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Presumably a President can pardon Herself?
I wonder if the founders ever considered such a possibility.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
I am under the impression she can, but she can also be impeached
presumably for doing so... Hopefully, someone with actual knowledge will present that here.
'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
The Senate has never convicted.
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.
It might set a precedent
they would later regret.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Unlikely
It takes a 2/3 majority to convict in the Senate which is a very high bar no matter who has the majority.
Depends on how many friends they have
I should put "friends" in quotes, huh?
I thought they got pretty close with Big Dog, but my memory could be wrong...
Off the table? Remember what that did for Nancy Pelisi in 2010.
On to Biden since 1973
immediately being attacked
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.
Yeah, but it's 'made up' by WSJ...
...although a quasi Hillbot I know screams that it's a right wing rag if I cite it.
'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
Wikileaks retweeted it
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?
Things are very ass-backwards this year
I never thought I would listen to Fox Spews. I wish there was a none of the above choice in all states.
"followed immediately by them blocking my account."
sounds like a good outcome.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Heh.
I wouldn't follow anyone on Twitter that would want me to follow them.
No Longer Surprised At Anything With The Stench of Corruption
when it comes to Hellery.
Oh brother. Do you have a bridge you could sell me?
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
snort!
again.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Time for another disgusting Trump video!
Nothing like the politics of distraction.
The real SparkyGump has passed. It was an honor being your human.