"Incidentally, the McCabe removal comes after Wray viewed the memo Sunday on Capitol Hill, as reported by Fox News’ Catherine Herridge. The removal also comes ahead of a DOJ inspector general report regarding the handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe."
-Fox News
Things are heating up on both sides of the Washington DC investigations, (the Mueller investigation into Trump and the investigation into skulduggery being waged by the Obama administration, its intelligence services, and the FBI against Trump himself as well as white-washing the Clinton email scandal.) Unfortunately, only the first has a special prosecutor.
Now Asst FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who played a role in so much of the above, has stepped down deciding to use up his vacation and sick leave until he is eligible to retire, which I believe is sometime in March. What is the significance of this? CNN, naturally, is asking if President Trump had a hand in removing McCabe. It is also possible that the dam is about to break, and that contrary to Mueller's case, evidence may come forth that the FBI acted improperly in its investigation into Clinton and acted improperly in looking into the Trump campaign. For example, it appears that the FBI relied on the much-discredited Russian dossier to apply for FISA wiretaps into members of the Trump campaign. The just released emails between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (with references to "Andy") indicate that they knew Clinton was not going to be indicted and that they wanted to do anything they could to keep Trump out of the White House. Then there is the 4-page memo that Congress may release any day. Those Republicans who have seen it say it is highly damning.
It is important to note, however, that this memo was drafted by Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA). The Democrats reportedly have drafted their own in response. Thus, there is a partisan aspect to it. What is important is that evidence supporting the conclusions of the memo be provided.
I look forward to the release of the memo, but if it only contains charges, it has little use absent evidence to back them up. The controversy over the FBI's role in all these investigations regarding, Trump, his team and Hillary Clinton needs to be resolved in the open. Ditto for Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian-Trump collusion into the election. I just hope Mueller doesn't wind up indicting people for unrelated issues. If Trump is going to sit down and answer questions from Mueller, he'd better get his facts straight and not try to outsmart the investigators.
Our faith in government has been damaged on both sides of the political spectrum. We need to get all the facts out there for the public to see.
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