Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Sat 05/31/2025 View Fri 05/30/2025 View Thu 05/29/2025 View Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025
2019-02-22 -Lurid Crime Tales-
6 Takeaways From Andrew McCabe's Double-Dealing ‘60 Minutes' Interview
[The Federalist] Gone are the Clark Kent glasses as former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe casts himself the hero in a "60 Minutes" interview. CBS pitched McCabe fawning softball after softball to build up its protagonist in the Trump-Russia mythology.

But McCabe’s self-congratulatory arrogance resulted in several careless statements that cement his place as a key villain in the greatest law enforcement scandal in the history of the United States. Let’s walk through the interview to examine what we learned.

1. Conveniently Selective Memory
Take a look at these parts of the interview with CBS New correspondent Scott Pelley, from the transcript.
PELLEY: You seem to have a very clear memory of your conversations with the president. Why so?

MCCABE: I made memorandums to myself to make sure that I preserved my contemporaneous recollections of those interactions.

PELLEY: How did he [Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein] bring up the idea of the 25th amendment to you?

MCCABE: Honestly, I don’t remember. He, it was just another kinda topic that he jumped to in the midst of a wide-ranging conversation.

PELLEY: Rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president.

MCCABE: That’s correct. Counting votes or possible votes.

PELLEY: Did he assign specific votes to specific people?

MCCABE: No, not that I recall.

So the former acting director of the FBI claims to have heard the deputy attorney general propose deposing the president with a cabinet vote pursuant to the 25th Amendment of the Constitution and he doesn’t recall how the conversation came up or whether the deputy attorney general named any specific cabinet members who might vote to overturn the 2016 election. Il est gros mytho. That’s French for, "I’m skeptical."
Five more follow.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-22 05:27|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 MCCABE: I made memorandums to myself to make sure that I preserved my contemporaneous recollections of those interactions.



But he fails to recall the most important detail of the 25th amendment discussion. I think Pelley is reading the questions McCabe gave him for the interview.
Posted by Airandee 2019-02-22 06:05||   2019-02-22 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO, he's exactly like all these girls who remember a rape two months later.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-22 06:06||   2019-02-22 06:06|| Front Page Top

#3 How did this sleaze ball get into law enforcement? The guy is a disgrace. HRC and Slick and "The One" did taint a lot of people. The country ended up being run by a criminal empire the likes of which Al Capone would envy.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-02-22 18:29||   2019-02-22 18:29|| Front Page Top

13:27 Grom the Affective
13:21 NN2N1
13:18 Grom the Affective
12:50 Remoteman
12:45 Secret Master
12:24 Matt
12:07 Abu Uluque
12:03 Grom the Affective
11:59 Grom the Affective
11:35 Super Hose
11:33 Super Hose
11:29 Besoeker
11:28 Besoeker
11:28 Super Hose
11:27 Besoeker
11:23 Besoeker
11:22 Grom the Affective
11:20 Super Hose
11:19 Super Hose
11:17 Super Hose
11:17 Grom the Affective
11:16 Super Hose
11:12 Grom the Affective
11:12 Grom the Affective









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com