Andrew McCabe has found an excuse to contradict his former statements about being willing to answer questions under oath about his actions during the FBI‘s Russia investigation.
Until recently, the CNN contributor and former FBI Deputy Director had consistently said he was willing to answer questions. McCabe was scheduled to testify on Tuesday, but is now using COVID as an excuse to skip it.
Three senators, Mike Lee, Thom Tillis, and Ron Johnson, have all tested positive for COVID in the last week. McCabe insists that this is a reason to skip testifying before the Senate, despite the fact that he is able to do it remotely, as former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates both have.
McCabe’s lawyer, Michael R. Bromwich expressed his client’s concerns in a letter, in which he says McCabe believes “fairness” dictates that he not testify at all.
“A fair and appropriate hearing of this kind — which is complex and contentious — simply cannot be conducted other than in person,” Bromwich wrote.
Bromwich says that McCabe is “willing, able, and eager to testify in person” about the FBI’s investigation “when it is safe to do so,” saying that his client is “not willing to put his family’s health at risk to do so.”
It is hard to not see this letter as McCabe’s way of finding an excuse to avoid testifying under oath. Some speculate that McCabe believes Democrats will retake the Senate and White House in November, and if he holds out long enough, they will cancel the hearings.
Recent unearthed information has increased concerns among Republicans that serious misconduct occurred during the FBI’s Russia investigation. According to recent testimony, James Comey, Sally Yates, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein have all said that, knowing what they do now, they would not have signed off on the Carter Page application.
Rosenstein also called for further investigation into misconduct by the FBI, especially in matters related to McCabe, as the former Deputy Attorney General criticized McCabe heavily during his testimony.
McCabe has been appearing on CNN and giving interviews, denying allegations against himself or the FBI, and attacking the Senate hearings.
Legal analyst Jonathan Turley wrote in an article about McCabe’s flip-flopping that the former FBI Deputy Director “has repeatedly used his CNN contract to spin stories that directly impact his legal and professional interests… He will continue to answer questions remotely at CNN of course — a hermetically sealed safe space for Andrew McCabe.”
McCabe didn’t flip – he’s just a standard Democrat, telling what he believes is a good enough lie.
Thank you for the McCabe article
Once a pile of shit, always a pile of shit!
WTF? can’t they make McCabe do it remotely? he has been hitting the fake news…OUTRAGEOUS, what are you hiding McCabe?
It’s disgusting to think that whether serious criminal activity gets investigated and prosecuted depends on who wins an election. We were supposed to be a government of laws not men; we are seriously falling short.
Someone him..Put his butt in a glass enclosure with a microphone and make him testify. Then lock the traitor up for li fe. Don’t let him get away with this B.S. Excuse!!!
Supeona him!!!
It is so easy to use any excuse rather than testify and tell the truth.
Of course CNN does not put him under oath, AND he doesn’t have to be worried about lying! McCabe is a lapdog who has lost his master and is now just trying to find someone who will give him a treat and a pat on the head and say “Good Boy”!
He should be tossed into a cell and forced to testify via video call.
Indict them all on perjury for lying under oath, lying to federal agents & lying to congress…No bail… Their all flight risks & dangers to society….. Then continue the sedition investigation…
II would imagine that appearing before live internet streaming cameras while adorned with Shackles and Chains would be a better way to present his case?
The whole damned crew, McCabe, Comey, Strock, Page, Clinton, Obama, Schiff, Brennen and several others, should awaken to see several SWAT vehicles around their residences. And then be dragged out in handcuffs and leg irons for a trip to the nearest jail.
They should remain in jail until their memories improve and their desire to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, improves.
He allowed his wife to run for a Senate seat and they received financial assistance in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nothing to do with Clinton and Obama crowd I’m sure. He is a little pansey as far as I’m concerned. Never let a pandemic go to waste when protecting one’s own ass from prosecution. He along with many of his cohearts deserve to be indicted and convicted to face extreme jail time/Prison.