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| David Bowdich |
An FBI official who served as associate deputy director under James Comey and Andrew McCabe is replacing McCabe as acting deputy director, an FBI spokesman confirmed to Newsweek. Multiple outlets including Newsweek had previously reported the news, citing sources.
As associate deputy director, David Bowdich was the third-ranking FBI official, according to the bureau's organization chart, and would now become No. 2.
Bowdich became associate deputy director in April 2016. In that role, he oversaw most of the bureau's nonoperational branches and divisions, such as personnel, budget, administration and infrastructure. Previously, starting in 2014, he was assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office. Before that, he led the counterintelligence division at that office, overseeing all international and domestic terrorism investigations in the region. He joined the FBI in 1995 and at various times was a SWAT team operator and a sniper.
Sounds like a no nonsense professional with unquestionable integrity, right?
Well the same could have been said about James Comey and Andrew McCabe.
But here's the kicker:
But Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators who have called for a “purge” of the bureau’s Comey-era officials might be disappointed, given his former proximity to Comey and McCabe. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last June, Comey said he had spoken to senior colleagues including Bowdich about President Donald Trump’s allegedly asking Comey to have the FBI back off its probe into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.
Because of that apparent conversation, and because he was the No. 3 official under Comey, Bowdich is a potential witness into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey. Last June, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested that the committee interview Bowdich and other FBI officials as the panel investigated Comey’s termination.
That's right. This guy, just like the last guy, was informed by Comey that Donald Trump had attempted to bully him into dropping the Michael Flynn investigation.
So what does Trump do now?
Does he fire yet ANOTHER director or deputy director of the FBI?
Because even if he does, it will have NO effect on the various investigations, which I have to believe are now accelerating forward in the wake of these new unprecedented actions by the guy in the White House.
I thought as Gryphen commented that Mueller’s team would try to speed things up given the Republican smear campaign. Hopefully they have enough verified evidence to indict Trump and his circle of inexperienced and money laundering chosen team. Obviously even Republicans in office do not want to lose being re-elected willingly to let an unscroupulous pathological liar continue as POTUS ruin our country’s reputation in the world.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump reveals his plan to fight back against Robert Mueller, and it’s utterly psychotic
ReplyDeleteTrump is considering bringing phony criminal charges against Robert Mueller and putting him on trial in the hope of slowing down the investigation into the Russia scandal. This is nothing short of psychotic, but it’s equally idiotic. One of Trump’s allies in Congress announced today that if the Democrats bring any undocumented immigrants with them as guests to the State of the Union tonight, he’s going to try to have them arrested.
http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/utterly-psychotic-trump/7669/
Rep. Jackie Speier Just Blew The Lid Off The Trump/Nunes Conspiracy To Kill The Mueller Investigation
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/30/rep-jackie-speier-just-blew-lid-off-trump-gop-conspiracy-kill-mueller-investigation.html
Devin Nunes Runs Away From Reporters When Asked About The GOP Secret Memo
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/30/devin-nunes-runs-away-reporters-asked-gop-secret-memo.html
Trump is going to spin a web of fantasy where everything is fine and that the Russia investigation doesn’t exist during the State Of The Union.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/30/trump-pretend-like-russia-investigation-doesnt-exist-sotu.html
Trump adviser: President considering ‘prosecuting Mueller and his team’ over Russia probe
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-adviser-president-considering-prosecuting-mueller-team-russia-probe/
Chapter One: Cry, Paul Manafort, Cry!
ReplyDeletehttps://wonkette.com/629088/i-cant-believe-i-used-to-think-paul-manafort-was-the-boring-one-holy-jesus-shit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/narcissism-racism-linked-may-donald-trump-234817474.html
ReplyDelete'“Maybe hate is what we need,”'
'“we are left with Mr. Trump’s presumption that because they were black and brown teenagers from Harlem, they must have committed a crime.”'
' Bell sent me the draft of a new essay in which he draws explicit parallels between racism and narcissism. Narcissists “are exploitative and they lack empathy,” the ability to take into consideration what another person is feeling. Those are also, Bell told me, “very much the characteristics of racist behavior.” Narcissists and racists “have vulnerable self-esteem issues, which makes them very susceptible to any form of criticism and makes them prone to counterattack impulsively. They are also prone to being denigrating and rageful toward others.”'
BREAKING NEWS at The Washington Post is the story I wrote over a year ago about the FBI sitting on Comey's request to review the Clinton emails on Weiner's PC. It took a year, but I promised everyone this would eventually hit the mainstream—and now it has.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/958456837409517569
'3/ While agents in "Trumplandia"—what the NYC field office of the FBI was called due to its militant pro-Trump faction—sat on evidence they were supposed to be analyzing, they were leaking information to Rudy Giuliani to help Trump's team initiate a pressure campaign on Comey.'
Delete4/ I've long thought the Inspector General's report—and Horowitz generally—could be a possible "second savior" (after Mueller) in the Trump-Russia probe, as I think he has evidence to suggest the FBI in NYC was, in a coordinated/illegal way, trying to help Trump win the election."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-domestic-conspiracy-that-gave-trump-the-election_us_587ed24fe4b0b110fe11dbf9
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/
ReplyDelete"After Nunes won a vote on Monday to declassify his memo, the Fox News commentator Jeanine Pirro said on Sean Hannity’s show that the alleged abuses in the memo merit a special prosecutor, “not Rod Rosenstein, who right now is in the middle of all this.”
ReplyDeleteDemocrats are warning that Pirro’s sentiment reflect the true purpose of Nunes’ memo: to provide a pretext for firing Mueller or his allies in the Justice Department and the FBI; or to have a ready-made narrative to undermine any legal move Mueller ultimately makes against Trump. Mueller is reportedly now seeking to interview Trump personally but it is unclear if Trump’s lawyers will assent.
Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, tweeted Wednesday that Nunes’ memo is “a partisan sham cooked up to undermine the FBI, DOJ, and the Mueller probe. House Republicans are playing a very dangerous game.”"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/devin-nunes-wont-say-if-he-worked-with-white-house-on-anti-fbi-memo
""The only thing that the president has applied pressure to is make sure we to get this resolved so you guys and everyone else can focus on the things that Americans actually care about and that is making sure everybody gets the Russia fever out of their system once and for all, that you are all reminded once again there was no collusion, and that we can move forward to focus on things like national security..."
ReplyDeleteThe WH press secretary just admitted that Trump has been putting copious amounts of pressure on the entire Justice Department, including the Andrew McCabes in the FBI to do away with the entire investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether or not Trump officials colluded with a foreign power."
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/sanders-admits-trump-put-pressure-justice?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=crooksandliars.com&utm_term=68739&utm_content=2182420
The #ReleasetheMemo campaign bears all the classic hallmarks of a uniquely Trumpian ruse. Throughout his career as a New York real estate mogul and media star Trump has stumbled upon a foolproof way of trapping people into his web of lies. He always begins by casting vague aspersions about his target, in this case, the law enforcement networks investigating him."
ReplyDelete"Trump wanted his followers to believe one thing and one thing only: A massive conspiracy was underfoot to undermine his presidency, and he’s been peddling this particular theory for well over a year now."
"#ReleasetheMemo. At this moment, Trump is waiting to make a final decision to release the contents. We all have our countdown clocks on; Trump is in control of this story. Whatever happens next, rest assured, Trump will use the self-manufactured controversy Nunes created to discredit the Russian investigators."
"when people see what’s in the memo, it won’t settle the debate. More likely than not, another round of gaslighting will begin to tip the debate in Trump’s favor. "
"Trump has an eager crop of Republicans on Capitol Hill eager to assist him and an entire government apparatus at his disposal in the form of bobble-headed Cabinet secretaries, press teams and even a vice president. As a result, everyone is talking about what could possibly be in the mysterious memo." "We are being gaslit"
" Rep. Matt Gaetz, the freshly-elected Republican congressman from Florida, let the truth slip. He told CNN’s Jake Tapper in between his hits on InfoWars with Alex Jones, that there was “tremendous bias that should stop this probe from going forward.”"
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/30/republican-party-release-the-memo-gaslighting-america-216554