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After reading about Andrew McCabe's latest on TeeVee with his book tour it's time to write a bit about the Russiagate matter in its late stages. It's hard to write about this matter inside the Beltway and inside the internets of social media and on cable TeeVee because once you've made the attempt to concisely clarify what seems to be going on behind the 'bombshell' headlines the breakneck pace of the MSM cycle ratchets-up another bombshell IED completely changing the matrix and extending the open-ended possibilities once again. There seems to be no hope of concluding the affair or the Special Prosecutor's unlimited mandate to nail Trump once and for all. It's almost as if the whole investigation is a self perpetual motion machine with its own set of physics with book tours emerging as repetitive booster rocket for the narrative and for the celebrity and bank accounts of the cast.

I was reading Gareth Porter's piece over @ Consortium News when the news appeared in my "timeline" (a general reference to any and all media that randomly makes its presence known to me) about Andrew McCabe's appearance on 60Minutes and the preview of his "explosive" statements to sell a book and airtime for CBS News. Porter's piece duly breaks down the seeding of what later became known as the Steele Dossier in 2016. He also uses it to make the case of how the NYT and CNN have promoted a version of the narrative that twisted the motives of launching the original investigation of candidate Trump. That both news organizations had plenty of privileged access to committee documents that contradicted their own narratives they printed electing NOT to add the credible doubts over the Steele Dossier inside the DoJ is journalistic malpractice that in America inevitably leads to Pulitzer prizes, alas:

The Real Motive Behind the FBI Plan to Investigate Trump as a Russian Agent
 
You need to read Porter's piece to understand the mendacity of Andrew McCabe in his present statements and his intents as acting director of the FBI nine months later after Comey was fired. Porter points out that Bruce Ohr who introduced Christopher Steele's memorandum to the FBI in August of 2016 through his contact with Steele in late July 2016 (his wife working for Perkins Coie in hiring Steele and compiling his opposition research for Hillary Clinton) tipped off to Lisa Page, McCabe and Peter Strzok (the principles of the counterintelligence operation inside the FBI) of Christopher Steele's motivations against Trump's bid for the presidency with his memorandum.

This is a counterintelligence investigation that quickly morphed into a counterintelligence operation in search of a crime and/or a conspiracy. The motivations of launching it in the middle of a general election which is a season the intelligence services and DoJ are ostentatiously supposed to refrain from interfering in the domestic democratic process has been a critical debate all along the 2+ years of Russiagate. It's critical but most Americans are unaware of its central place inside of Washington media circles and power centers in the Capitol's investigative committees. If the motivations of launching such a risky operation are constantly shifting in explanation as more layers of duplicity and maneuvering against Trump's election to the Presidency what exactly are the implications for Washington DC and the Republic here?

This is much bigger than Trump colluding with Putin to engineer his election as the now very dubious narrative was propelled into low earth orbit in the winter and spring of 2017. These revelations that run concurrent with Mueller's revelations of "Russia meddling" and fraudulent tax filings of Trump henchmen are already impacting basic trust in the DoJ of Obama's responsibility.  They are feeding Trump's attacks upon the credibility of the Mueller investigation itself. They are proving Trump to be an actual victim if not an innocent bystander of the worst of what smug and unaware people online laugh off as Deep State while being the "only grownups in the room" of late night cable infotainment and social media echo chambers.

Here Francey Hakes - a former assistant US Attorney and FISA expert - wrote yesterday on Andrew McCabe's claims about Rod Rosenstein, wiretapping discussions on Trump and the 25th Amendment option:

McCabe's shocking claims prove the bloodless coup rolls on

This is not exaggeration. This is someone who knows just how damaging and alarming this whole affair is on our institutions that since 9/11 the American public have been trained to implicitly trust with ever expanding surveillance powers. And it's just not the surveillance technologies and deployment upon diplomats and elected officials that should frighten Hakes: it's also how it is augmented and amplified by MSM in New York and inside the Beltway that Gareth Porter's piece exposes. 

Here's more Hakes:

Like a laser beam, Hakes zeroes in on the glaring contradiction at the heart of the whole narrative that Trump is a traitor to his own country that from the beginning was the accelerant that kept the narrative going with the media - not only with McCabe's telling of his concerns about the President but the foregone conclusion that Comey's then Mueller's investigation had with the US media of only one outcome: the impeachment of Trump as a traitor. Of course if this were true the services would've had plenty of evidence by the time they finished with the reviews of SIGINT intercepts and FISA wiretaps of Carter Page and other techniques of the 5 Eyes intelligence sharing. There has been no subsequent evidence proving any coordination or collusion with the Kremlin.

Stepping back in the timeline and once again revisiting the origins of the original step-off point of the counterintelligence investigation against a candidate for the US Presidency, the infamous Steele Dossier is proving to be a Rosetta Stone of deciphering the real narrative that Andrew McCabe can't seem to help but confess in his public book tour.