House Judiciary Tells FBI To Preserve McCabe Emails Pertaining To Trump Election

The noose around the now former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe appears to be getting tighter.

Just hours after news that McCabe was departing the FBI, allegedly forced out from his position, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Republican Bob Goodlatte released a a letter urging FBI Director Christopher Wray to preserve Mr. McCabe’s emails, and all other communications, before his official departure from the agency.

From Goodlatte's statement:

“Today’s news that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is stepping down from the Bureau is overdue. Recent revelations call into question Mr. McCabe’s leadership in the top operational post in the FBI.  However, Mr. McCabe’s departure certainly does not mean that we are done rooting out the problems at the FBI. I continue to be extremely troubled by the decisions made by the FBI during the 2016 presidential election and the role senior FBI officials played in these questionable decisions and irregularities.

“The only way to ensure the FBI remains the premier law enforcement agency in the world is to ensure that the leadership at the Bureau holds the trust of the American people. This change in leadership at the FBI is a good first step in repairing the damage to their reputation.”

And from his letter, highlights ours:

Deputy Director McCabe's decision to step down comes at a time where a confluence of events and reporting show serious irregularities in the FBI and DOJ's investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information. Deputy Director McCabe was prominently involved in both that investigation and the FBI's pre-Special Counsel investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. It is essential that the FBI preserve Mr. McCabe's emails, and all other communications, before his official departure from the agency.

Here is the request to preserve McCabe's emails and documents:

This Committee currently has an investigation open on the FBI's handling of the events surrounding the 2016 election. It is therefore essential that we have all of Deputy Director McCabe's documents and communications pertaining to the 2016 election. It is also in the public interest that all documents and communications pertaining to Mr. McCabe's involvement in the pre-Special Counsel Russia investigation be preserved from destruction or deletion. These measures are critical to ensure that this Committee and others can perform necessary and robust Congressional oversight.

Many have suggested that the timing of McCabe's abrupt departure - just as the FISA memo was set to be released -was not accidental. Although confirmation will have to wait, at least until such time as the FBI assures the public that Hillary Clinton's Bleach-Bit wasn't used on its own servers to delete a few thousand emails...

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Full Goodlatte letter below (link):

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SDShack Shitonya Serfs Jan 30, 2018 12:57 PM Permalink

I'm going to take the opposite side. I suspect that there are some patriotic whisleblowers still in the security state that were smart enough to keep copies of the incriminating evidence, perhaps for nothing more then self-preservation. If so, then I also suspect that copies have already been provided to Trump and the investigating committees. So the "request" by the committees is just a test to see if the worst deep state criminals realize the game is up, so if they cooperate, they may end up just being forced to retire, instead of being prosecuted. Otherwise if they double down on the obstruction, destroying more evidence at this point when copies of the very same "destroyed" evidence is already in possession would invite total prosecution. Something tells me everyone is trying to limit the public exposure of the true extent of the corruption from reaching the sheeple, lest the shitstorm ensnares everyone in DC. There has to be a lot of ass-puckering self-preservation going on with all sides at this point. So I suspect deals have been cut to sacrifice the worst mid to high level offenders still in govt, and totally ignore all the former 0zer0 and Clinton agents now out of govt to try to contain this and then move on. Case in point... we will never "officially" know who killed Seth Rich and why, because that is just an example of how deep the rot goes and why it cannot ever be exposed.

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Antifaschistische eclectic syncretist Jan 30, 2018 12:19 PM Permalink

Can these politicians hire someone who knows something about Email systems and about the FBI's current record retention policy/mandate.   The ONLY way ANY emails would disappear would be a concerted, deliberate effort on the part of multiple people.   UNLESS, there is ONE GUY at the FBI who has all access to EVERYTHING and has the ability to destroy all backups as well as current mailboxes, as well as "deleted" files, as well as...etc.   That would be amazing if that existed.

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chunga VWAndy Jan 30, 2018 12:03 PM Permalink

Goodlatte's assertion that the FBI is the "premier law enforcement agency in the world" is bogus. It's a terrible, dangerous outfit that seems completely out of control.

If there is any meat to this "blockbuster memo" the maverick outsider had better release it and not take a magnanimous high road for the sake of moving on.

The way the FBI has been behaving for a long time shows that it should be dismantled, the sooner the better. 

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BiggestLoser chunga Jan 30, 2018 12:48 PM Permalink

The FBI is simply FDR's American Gestapo. We do not need it. It should be reorganized and renamed as a federal professional and technical support unit; forensics, profiling, cyber, financial crime analysis supporting state and local investigations of crime. It should have no independent LEO function. Independence is recipe for bureaucratic growth and self-promotion. FBI today is an entrapment/obstruction machine inventing all the crime they "solve."

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Bernard_2011 Jan 30, 2018 11:55 AM Permalink

Morning Joe says that the Republicans are smearing the professionals at the FBI and the DOJ.  According to him, it is not patriotic to question the FBI.