If the God-Emperor’s toadies were smart, they would get their GOP Senate buddies to try to trash Comey’s acting director replacement, Andy McCabe tomorrow in the open Senate intelligence committee hearing.
And if Lord Dampnut could control his tiny thumbs he might not have a meltdown like on Monday when Sally Yates revealed the desperation at the WH.
It’s in Trump’s interest to keep the strategy of tension high even as the noose tightens and his cluelessness continues by meeting Kissinger today evoking all those Nixonian comparisons of the Beltway Byzantine.
“That kneel with me Henry” moment came right after his handler, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergi Lavrov, did Putin a solid by helping Trump to tweak the MSM by his granting their meeting access to Russian state media only.
So the leading candidates for being dicks tomorrow could be Senator Richard Burr, the chairman who could be tied to the cover-up with Rep. Devin Nunes, or:
- John Cornyn who’s trying to firewall the Giant Taco Bowl by suggesting that the current Coup d’Etat is about leaks and executive privilege.
- Lando Cotton because he’s a former intelligence officer and wants to be POTUS some day.
- Marco Rubio, simply because he’s thirsty little Marco.
A well-wired federal law enforcement source told The Daily Beast shortly after Comey’s firing that rumors immediately started swirling that McCabe could be next.
He’s scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a public hearing on Thursday morning.
- Open Hearing, Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 10:00am Location:Hart 216
Witnesses
- Director Daniel R. Coats, Director of National Intelligence DNI
- Director Michael Pompeo, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA
- Director, Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency NSA
- Acting Director Andrew McCabe, Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI
- Director, Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA
- DIA Director, Robert Cardillo, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA
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James Comey’s replacement at the FBI may be even more controversial than Comey himself. He takes the reins at the FBI during one of its most tumultuous moments in recent memory—and his temporary leadership there may not be enough to calm a bureau that’s reeling.
Andrew McCabe, who was the FBI’s deputy director until President Donald Trump fired Comey, became interim director of the bureau after his old boss was fired.
But while agents at FBI headquarters in D.C. and in its field offices around the country are grieving and angry, McCabe could struggle to stabilize things.
That’s because of a controversy that erupted last summer when reports revealed his wife took almost $500,000 from the political organization of Terry McAuliffe, the Virginia governor and longtime Clinton ally, for her state senate campaign.
The news drew calls for McCabe to publicly recuse himself from anything involving the bureau’s investigation into Clinton’s email scandal. But he didn’t do that, and conservatives haven’t forgotten.
Vice Chairman
Another Bigly Trump meltdown today on Twitter included personal attacks on Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal, since Trump feels better when other men cry, because he doesn’t.
An FBI Interim Director will be considered soon and a list of four candidates has been mentioned
A major question for the next FBI director will be how to handle the ongoing probe into any collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, as well as how to convince the public of the investigation’s independence.
Trump can select whoever he feels is up to the job, though the person will require Senate confirmation.
Legislators on both sides of the aisle have called for a special counsel or other independent investigative body to take up the probe — though a special counsel would have to be approved by Rosenstein.
At his confirmation hearing, Rosenstein resisted recusing himself from the matter, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions had done.
“I don’t know the details of what, if any, investigation is ongoing, but I can certainly assure you if it’s America against Russia, or America against any other country, I think everyone in this room knows which side I’m on,” Rosenstein said at the time.
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