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Thread: If Uncle Blazer ( @blakesmustache) was right and Andy McCabe devised a brilliant strategy for protecting the counterintelligence investigation into Trump, wouldn’t he have dropped some hints in his book or in his book tour interviews?
Turns out, he did.
Turns out, he did.
I read McCabe’s book (The Threat) and saw and read all interviews McCabe gave for the book. McCabe dropped a ton of hints. The problem is, the hints are incredibly subtle and no one has even realized he gave us any, much less what those hints were. McCabe is unbelievably clever.
Hint 1: The counterintelligence investigation was outside Mueller’s scope because his mandate only directed him to investigate the case Comey was working on, which did not include the case investigating Trump himself, which McCabe told us was opened after Comey was fired.
In January 2019, one month before The Threat was released, we learned that, after Comey was fired, McCabe quickly openned a counterintelligence investigation into whether Donald Trump was a full-blown agent of the Russian government. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/politics/fbi-trump-russia-inquiry.html
Mueller’s written mandate was to investigate the case described by Comey to the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017. At that point in time, no case had been opened on Trump. We know this because we know McCabe opened that case sometime between May 10-May 16, 2016.
You see, Mueller was only appointed to investigate the original Crossfire Hurricane case as it existed on March 20, 2017, and not the case against Trump which was opened in May 2017. This is kind of a huge deal, and McCabe told us all about it in his book and in his interviews.
Hint 2: McCabe and Lisa Page did NOT trust Rod Rosenstein. In The Threat, McCabe tells us that after a meeting with Rosenstein on May 12, three full days after Comey had been fired, McCabe marched into Lisa Page’s office and told her they simply cannot trust Rosenstein.
McCabe definitely wanted Rosenstein to appoint a Special Counsel, but he did not even trust Rosenstein to oversee a Special Counsel.
Rosenstein was compromised because he had obstructed justice with his pre-textual letter justifying Comey’s firing.
Rosenstein was compromised because he had obstructed justice with his pre-textual letter justifying Comey’s firing.
So there’s no way they would have allowed Rosenstein to oversee a Special Counsel on a case on Trump. That was a huge red line for Trump and was what had gotten Comey fired. Remember, Comey was fired because he refused to state publicly that Trump was not under investigation.
Hint 3: McCabe tells us in The Threat that, on May 10 (the day after Comey was fired), he tasked the Russia investigation team (Page, Baker, Strzok, Priestap) to come up with a way of protecting the investigation into Trump from interference by DOJ.
Notably, a few days after The Threat came out, one or more of Page, Baker, Strzok, and Priestap leaked that, in fact, what they were working on was a “back-up plan” to the Mueller investigation. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/fbi-had-backup-plan-to-save-russia-probe-evidence-source-20190220-p50yxc.html
But the bigger statement was made my McCabe that very night when asked about it on The Colbert Show.
McCabe appears to almost slip when he reveals that the goal was to design a way to “take the cases back” if Mueller is shut down (starting at 5:29):
McCabe appears to almost slip when he reveals that the goal was to design a way to “take the cases back” if Mueller is shut down (starting at 5:29):
These were very smart people who were very concerned that Trump’s DOJ could shut down Mueller and they specifically thought about ways to design the investigation to prevent it. The way to do it would have been to split the investigations and not let Mueller have the Trump case.
This is exactly what Uncle Blazer (@blackesmustache) deduced and it’s fully supported by what McCabe and other members of the Russia team have told us.
Hint 4: In The Threat and an interview with the Trump Inc. podcast, McCabe tells us he was on the FBI Russia desk from 1996-2001 and worked on the Felix Sater Russian mob boiler-room bust in 1998. McCabe was intimately familiar with the cast of characters Trump interacted with.
As soon as the case was opened into Trump in May 2017, they would have been all over Sater, knowing that “former” Russian mafiosos almost always have ties to the Kremlin. They would have quickly pegged Sater (who had been in Trump’s orbit since 2000) as a Russian agent.
