"Caesar's wife must be above all suspicion."
Andrew McCabe and Dr.Jill McCabe seem to have been enmeshed in the quintessential DC form of corruption: Clinton style influence buying.
Corruption is the (mis)use of the powers of government officials for their own, a politcal ally, or their family's private gain. Sadly, such behavior is so prevalent in our Capital it is practically accepted there as normal behavior of reasonable people. In the corridors of power in DC and the super-affluent counties which surround that City, the stink of corruption rises like a miasma from the decaying mud of the saturated lowland. Most of us live far away from the bottom lands around Washington where at least we can keep our boot-heels clean of the sticky black goo of the national morass where fraud, criminality, dishonesty, nepotism, extortion, and bribery are the too common currency. In Washington, the swamp's denizens are preoccupied, not with the Nation's business, but with who is sleeping (and in collusion) with whom, which Senator's son or daughter has been offered a plum position in return for a good deal in upcoming legislation, or who's wife is showered with emoluments for perhaps a wink and a nod in an investigation, or government largess for a client's company. This way of life is so discordant with the open, hard working, honest nature of most Americans and of America's heartland that learning of these behaviors in Washington churns one's stomach, or like former FBI Director Comey it makes one "slightly nauseous" , when it raises its ugly head.
Revelations of these examples of self-serving or immoral behavior or outright criminality make the rest of us gag when "politicians" are exposed, but when corruption touches upon the leadership of the FBI and its 36 thousand employees who function as the Nation's domestic crime fighters we must be assured that the leadership remain beyond even a whiff of suspicion...like Pompeia, Caesar's wife..
The Andrew McCabe and Dr. Jill McCabe story is archetypical of the DC life style. The McCabes seem to be decent people. But they live and work in Washington. Assistant Director McCabe (now Acting Director) of the FBI and his pediatrician wife, Jill McCabe appear to have become enmeshed ignorantly (or willingly) in what seems a suspicious plan by Clinton partisans to control the investigatory posture of the FBI perhaps for political purposes.
During the early days of the 2016 campaign, it was clear that Mrs. Clinton was going to run for President. It was also clear that her mishandling of her email documents loomed as a serious electoral liability. The email issue was seen by her ardent supporters like Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a long time Clinton lieutenant and ally, as likely to generate an investigation by the FBI. At that time, Mr. Andrew G. McCabe was one of the top officials in the FBI. Governor McAuliffe, Democrat of Virginia, may have perceived of a strategy to help his political mentors and allies--Bill and Hillary Clinton. At that time McAuliffe appears to have tapped Dr. Jill McCabe (a Democrat) to run for a State Senate seat and arranged to help finance her campaign to the tune of nearly three quarters of a million dollars. Much of these funds came from a PAC controlled by the Clintons and McAuliffe.
This could all be just happenstance and serendipity...but it occurred in Washington where corruption is rife.
The wife of Caesar must be above even a whiff of suspicion. But is this the case for the McCabes? The McCabe story appears too much like typical "Clintonesque" influence buying. That is: McAuliffe saw a way to get leverage over a powerful FBI individual--one who is known for his ability to present precise summaries to the Director-- and who would likely have a say in how a critical investigation of the Democrat candidate might go. There is no smoking gun, but there is too much suspicion here...even when obviously descent people like the McCabes are involved.
Assistant FBI Director McCabe heightened suspicions when he failed to acknowledge in his annual FBI financial form the funds his wife received from the McAuliffe-Clinton PAC. He left the space for his spouse's finances in this form empty.
It is unwarranted and unlikely that McCabe would escape suspicion as Caesar did by divorce, but his and his wife's entanglements with Gov Mc Auliffe and the Clintons certainly makes his accession to Director of the FBI---unwise and very unlikely.
Andrew McCabe and Dr.Jill McCabe seem to have been enmeshed in the quintessential DC form of corruption: Clinton style influence buying.
Corruption is the (mis)use of the powers of government officials for their own, a politcal ally, or their family's private gain. Sadly, such behavior is so prevalent in our Capital it is practically accepted there as normal behavior of reasonable people. In the corridors of power in DC and the super-affluent counties which surround that City, the stink of corruption rises like a miasma from the decaying mud of the saturated lowland. Most of us live far away from the bottom lands around Washington where at least we can keep our boot-heels clean of the sticky black goo of the national morass where fraud, criminality, dishonesty, nepotism, extortion, and bribery are the too common currency. In Washington, the swamp's denizens are preoccupied, not with the Nation's business, but with who is sleeping (and in collusion) with whom, which Senator's son or daughter has been offered a plum position in return for a good deal in upcoming legislation, or who's wife is showered with emoluments for perhaps a wink and a nod in an investigation, or government largess for a client's company. This way of life is so discordant with the open, hard working, honest nature of most Americans and of America's heartland that learning of these behaviors in Washington churns one's stomach, or like former FBI Director Comey it makes one "slightly nauseous" , when it raises its ugly head.
Revelations of these examples of self-serving or immoral behavior or outright criminality make the rest of us gag when "politicians" are exposed, but when corruption touches upon the leadership of the FBI and its 36 thousand employees who function as the Nation's domestic crime fighters we must be assured that the leadership remain beyond even a whiff of suspicion...like Pompeia, Caesar's wife..
The Andrew McCabe and Dr. Jill McCabe story is archetypical of the DC life style. The McCabes seem to be decent people. But they live and work in Washington. Assistant Director McCabe (now Acting Director) of the FBI and his pediatrician wife, Jill McCabe appear to have become enmeshed ignorantly (or willingly) in what seems a suspicious plan by Clinton partisans to control the investigatory posture of the FBI perhaps for political purposes.
During the early days of the 2016 campaign, it was clear that Mrs. Clinton was going to run for President. It was also clear that her mishandling of her email documents loomed as a serious electoral liability. The email issue was seen by her ardent supporters like Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a long time Clinton lieutenant and ally, as likely to generate an investigation by the FBI. At that time, Mr. Andrew G. McCabe was one of the top officials in the FBI. Governor McAuliffe, Democrat of Virginia, may have perceived of a strategy to help his political mentors and allies--Bill and Hillary Clinton. At that time McAuliffe appears to have tapped Dr. Jill McCabe (a Democrat) to run for a State Senate seat and arranged to help finance her campaign to the tune of nearly three quarters of a million dollars. Much of these funds came from a PAC controlled by the Clintons and McAuliffe.
This could all be just happenstance and serendipity...but it occurred in Washington where corruption is rife.
The wife of Caesar must be above even a whiff of suspicion. But is this the case for the McCabes? The McCabe story appears too much like typical "Clintonesque" influence buying. That is: McAuliffe saw a way to get leverage over a powerful FBI individual--one who is known for his ability to present precise summaries to the Director-- and who would likely have a say in how a critical investigation of the Democrat candidate might go. There is no smoking gun, but there is too much suspicion here...even when obviously descent people like the McCabes are involved.
Assistant FBI Director McCabe heightened suspicions when he failed to acknowledge in his annual FBI financial form the funds his wife received from the McAuliffe-Clinton PAC. He left the space for his spouse's finances in this form empty.
It is unwarranted and unlikely that McCabe would escape suspicion as Caesar did by divorce, but his and his wife's entanglements with Gov Mc Auliffe and the Clintons certainly makes his accession to Director of the FBI---unwise and very unlikely.
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