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The world's premier intelligence agency just lost another batch of text messages! Does anyone believe this?Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on her FOX News program Saturday night.
Tom Fitton told Judge Jeanine how difficult it was dealing with the Jeff Sessions Justice Department.
Then Tom Fitton dropped this bomb:The FBI will not turn over Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe's text messages!
Andrew McCabe was famously mentioned in a Peter Strzok - Lisa Page text message discussing an "insurance policy" against a Donald Trump presidency.
Now this...The FBI told Judicial Watch they can't find McCabe's text messages!Tom Fitton: We sued back in September for the text messages of the number two at the FBI, Andrew McCabe. And they just told us this week, they gave us everything they're going to give us, and not one text message was turned over. They lost all of Andrew McCabe's text messages! I don't believe it. There's still gamesmanship going on.
Comment: RT
reports on McCabe resignation:
Andrew McCabe has stepped down effective immediately, NBC News reported citing sources inside the Bureau. He will be on leave until March, when he will officially retire from federal service.
There was no official announcement about McCabe's retirement, only reports via NBC's legal and White House correspondents.
McCabe announced his intent to retire in December, shortly after a closed-doors testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. The announcement said he would be retiring in March, when he became eligible for pension benefits, prompting President Donald Trump to chide him on Twitter.
The deputy director, who headed the FBI between the firing of James Comey in May 2017 and the appointment of new director Christopher Wray in August, had been under fire by the Trump administration over his reported ties to Clinton ally and former Virginia governor, Terry McAuliffe. McCabe's wife Jill received substantial funds from McAuliffe's PAC for her 2015 state Senate run, which ended up being unsuccessful.
Emails released by the FBI last November showed McCabe referring to the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as "special." More recently, he was referenced in the text messages between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who talked about a meeting at "Andy's office" in light of discussions about the "insurance policy" in case Trump gets elected.
Another subject of controversy in Washington has been the 4-page memo by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R-California), which reportedly accuses the FBI of abusing FISA surveillance warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. Director Wray read the memo on Sunday, according to Fox News.
Following the 2016 presidential election, Democrats called for the resignations of both Comey and McCabe, after the Clinton campaign said the FBI letters about the email investigation shortly before the election "helped depress our turnout and also drove away some of our critical support " and "helped to bolster Trump's turnout."
Comment: RT reports on McCabe resignation: