Just about everyone’s favorite bullish congressman, Trey Gowdy (R—SC) summed it up well when he addressed the Andrew McCabe saga (perhaps sellout is a more befitting word) on Fox News Sunday: “Andy McCabe has undercut his credibility all by himself. He didn’t need any help doing that.” Falsities punctured McCabe’s FBI bubble. And despite ample FBI-bashing lately, consensus to terminate McCabe actually came from FBI cohorts, namely the self-evident purpose via the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). In cop-speak, OPR is the alternate designation for Internal Affairs (IA), meaning any perceived or alleged wrongdoing by any law enforcer is investigated by those who police the police.
For those who still believe the cops cover for their own, the McCabe firing counters that cynical claim.
Reminiscent of just about any House of Cards episode, the constructs of who is or isn’t aligned only becomes evident (sort of) when hammers drop and guillotines chop—metaphorically. Backdoor meetings transpire and hush-hush dialogue is as swift-handed as fool’s gold. Careers self-implode while others are put out to pasture. Where Andrew McCabe sits on the crazy spectrum of chronic FBI meanderings is intriguing and, like James Comey’s insidious presence, a baffling story of secrecy and self-preservation pollutes politics (humor me) and betrays badges.
If any doubt about Andrew McCabe’s cloaking and coyness persisted, Rep. Trey Gowdy is the man from whom I’d buy any old bridge, so his assessment mitigates any on-the-fence sentiments.
As a career lawman, I surely wish to believe another law enforcer would not dare twist, evade, perjure, or commit crimes to cover another misdeeds and/or the person(s) committing them. But being a lawman for as long as I had the opportunity purged pretty much every scintilla of naïveté and gullibility.
If only Andrew McCabe rested more on his oath than his cronies’ shoulders, he’d still be donning that FBI badge and a duty weapon issued by the feds 20 years ago. But no, he did it his way and Frank Sinatra is not smiling down from Heaven.
And, echoed by Congressman Gowdy, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was ultimately saddled for a final ride via his own FBI colleagues’ consensus:
Why, then, would McCabe contrarily state, “I was sad, but not surprised, to see that such unhinged public attacks on me would continue into my life after my service to the FBI. The president’s comments about me were…hurtful and false, which shows that he has no idea how the FBI people feel about their leaders.” Mr. McCabe published those sentiments in today’s edition of The Washington Post.
He’s right about one thing though: President Trump has zero creds regarding FBI infrastructure and intra-agency mechanisms. However, it is ostensibly delusional to project that the very source fueling one’s termination is cradled as a supportive pillar in his corner. With what we now know (Gowdy’s unequivocal statement), it seems bizarre for McCabe to somehow esteem his now-former cohort base.
The Boss
On March 22, 2018, the pocket oozed more pus from a festering federal masthead which included McCabe allegedly directly authorizing a Hoover-esque brand of sleuthing of those with whom he sat, dined, co-wrote, and smiled at…namely US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his boss. This is not to suggest he shouldn’t launch an inquiry with the whiff of impropriety and/or criminal activity. He certainly should press that oath-based button.
So what does (did) Andrew McCabe have over AG Sessions? Was there something substantive in his mind to be so bold or was it more of the slash-and-burn antics often compelled by those who know they are going down in a ball of flames? Media musings purport he was propelled by elected officials on the left.
The specifics released today among media circles is that McCabe sought an investigation focused on criminality committed by AG Sessions, specifically focusing on contradictions (statements) AG Sessions allegedly made regarding direct testimony before the House and Senate. If you guessed Russia collusion is the root of this purported evil, you have undoubtedly been paying attention to the big game launched by the left.
Last night, Fox News‘ Tucker Carlson discussed the investigative session on Sessions…and Al Franken’s name is involved. Surprise!
There is an exceeding amount of bizarre history here but suffice it to say: recall all you can surrounding the Obama administration and all his cronies who epitomized collusion among white-collar criminals yet walk freely while still condemning the Trump camp, throwing sand in the eyes of most on his cabinet, to include Justice’s figurehead.
With that said, was McCabe one of the holdovers weaponizing the air like an odorless gas, seeking to stealthily take out pillars next to President Trump…and sell-out every last dollop of decency? I challenge you to count how many pictures you find with McCabe shouldered with Hillary Clinton versus how few there are with McCabe and President Trump.
Seems like treasonous behavior is stratified throughout the Obama legacy and those he emplaced or maintained in positions leaning so far to the left…it makes the Tower of Pisa appear perfectly erect.
The fissures in the FBI exterior (and interior) spread, widened, deepened, and spidered into a highly publicized reputation of a significantly fractured law enforcement agency, one which traditionally maintained the throne and was renowned the world over. Now, it is beleaguered and beating by pacemaker which misfires from time to time. I hold hope it can successfully recharge as the renowned, premier law enforcement agency. No need to let a few spoil the stew.
Spoil? James “I am not a weasel” Comey. Reliving that is too much to bear; I suspect I need not walk through those prickly weeds again. The pungency of rogue FBI agents allegedly part of a “secret society” undermining President Trump with official capacity as federal law enforcers still wafts the Hoover halls. Enter FBI special Agent Peter Strzok whose role seems as soiled as a week-old diaper. Is Strzok an Oz-like wizard pushing and pulling levers behind a curtain (badge of justice)?
Going to Congressman Gowdy for the smell-test scoop, Agent Strzok appears to be an element of a “secret society of folks within the Department of Justice and the FBI.” Mr. Gowdy’s colleague, Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), clarified how the “secret society” was revealed after close scrutiny of roughly 50,000 text messages between Strzok and his mistress, senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, came to light. The breadth indicates text exchanges discussing plot-like jargon targeting a take-down of President Trump. How’s that for a heaping helping of hypocrisy and a toilet-flush of oath-bound integrity?
From where was McCabe watching all this nefarious malfeasant activity? Or was his head down?
One more crushing and severe piece of information involving certain FBI strings: President Trump’s advisor, Roger Stone, provided an exclusive interview with The New American, detailing the Deep State’s three-tiered plan to “finish” President Trump. “Plan A is the Trump/Russia witch-hunt headed by Mueller. If that fails (which is likely), Plan B (which Stone predicted before the release of Michael Wolff’s he-said-she-said Fire and Fury) would be to have Trump declared mentally incompetent and removed from office. Stone believed that plan would also fail, and it is already evident that Wolff’s book is falling apart under even light scrutiny. Plan C, Stone said, would be to kill Trump,” reported C. Mitchell Shaw.
It’s that bad! Sore-losing Hillary, style distortions, partisan pummeling, tweet-sparring, campaign-promise waffling, McCabe jabs, Biden barbing, etc…somehow amounts to Capitol conspiracy to murder the US president?
Experience-Driven Lens
I tend to look at things through the lens of persona and kinesis. It was a favored course taught in the police academy, and I kept studying it through a few decades; still do. Many years of people-watching in NYC preceded that and may have been the impetus for human-psychology exploration. Most people tend to unwittingly give themselves up via gestural changes and facial nuances.
Hillary Clinton was a rare breed who hardly shook that apathy-ridden face. However, on occasion she flashed her you-are-substandard-and-I-am-a-goddess smirk, usually accompanied by a scant head tilt and upturned corners of her mouth. That is the response to someone or something penetrating the cold shell and striking her chord.
Kinesis does not only offer telltale signs of behavioral cues betraying lies, it also earmarks confidence and surety. Our beloved Trey Gowdy tends to look up over the heads of folks in the House chambers when he asks questions and receives what he knows to be falsities or departures from the truth. He talks it through while consciously staring off into the distance, with a vocal tone that telegraphs You’re not fooling anyone but yourself! punctuated by testifying under oath. Conversely, he has a direct eyes-to-eyes stare when he is in pursuit of integrity and realizes he has liars on the ropes. Gotta love Gowdy!
In Andrew McCabe, when he testified before the House and Senate or provided commentary to the media, he became increasingly demonstrative of a man with a boulder (dishonesty) weighing on his back (conscience).
Often looking down stoically while testifying—as if to deliberate his responses—McCabe’s facial expressions took on the gaze of a lawbreaker who knew the gig was up or quite close to being uncloaked. Buying time, is what I often thought he exuded throughout Q&A with members of the US Congress. His please-let-this-be-over-soon face was rather static. His eyes peered downward and his jaw tightened enough to lose all shape of lips; a horizontal slit took the place of his mouth and his chin flesh bunched. (I invite you to take a gander at a chronology of photographs of McCabe and judge for yourself the gradual change in expressions. The October 2017 cover photo above is a start, and the photograph directly below is a compare/contrast example.)
The Art of Trump website wrote a synopsis addressing McCabe’s firing, and it is resoundingly similar to Rep. Gowdy’s Fox News statement: “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been fired at the recommendation of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility after an internal probe found that McCabe had facilitated leaking of classified material to the media and misled investigators in regard to the Hillary Clinton investigation.
“McCabe has been at the center of an apparent high-level FBI plot to undermine and target President Trump, along with Former FBI Director James Comey and a number of rogue agents. Just days before his retirement, McCabe’s dismissal will result in the loss of his federal pension. The extent of McCabe’s wrongdoing – or if he will face criminal charges – is not yet known. Such a firing at the FBI is unprecedented in American history.”
“The idea that I was dishonest is just wrong,” Mr. McCabe responded after he was fired by Jeff Session. “This is part of an effort to discredit me as a witness.” That is not what Congressman Gowdy thinks, and he is genius in conveying astute, critical thinking.
Lest we forget the Dems circling the wagons with damage-control figures under the tarp. Related to McCabe’s termination just before he was slated to officially retire, various Democratic elected officials rubbed his back and either suggested hiring him or actually offered him a position so as to tourniquet the hemorrhage he created over the past few years (at least). Many perceived these I’ll-hire-you maneuvers from the left as poking President Trump in the eye and purely spiteful. Or did elected liberal officials merely sincerely wish to help a guy out?
From the McCabe bench occupied by, well, McCabe…emanate the following qualifiers regarding his firing: “I have been accused of ‘lack of candor’. That is not true. I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators [emphasis added].”
He continued, “At worst, I was not clear in my responses, and because of what was going on around me may well have been confused and distracted – and for that I take full responsibility. But that is not a lack of candor. And under no circumstances could it ever serve as the basis for the very public and extended humiliation of my family and me that the administration, and the president personally, have engaged in over the past year [emphasis added].”
A broken moral compass? A loyalist to a not-so-loyal cause? Justice scales get too heavy? Political party disdain puncture the heart? Justice principles turned inside-out? Veteran FBI bigwig easily distracted? Bad birthday bash.
