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6 Takeaways From Andrew McCabe's Double-Dealing ‘60 Minutes' Interview
2019-02-22
[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

#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  

#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  

#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  

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