Deep State Sedition Has Stalked America Since 2016 if Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Is Right

McCABE AND THE DEEP STATE SEDITIONISTS. We know they are there, and we know they have not been properly investigated or prosecuted for their sedition. American Thinker's Thomas Lifson had this to say on Friday : "Congratulations, new AG Barr -- now get to work investigating and prosecuting the coup plotters." • • • Andrew McCabe says the Deep State sedition began with discussions about using the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump. • So, let's start with it -- "Amendment XXV affects 9 (Amendment 25 - Presidential Vacancy, Disability, and Inability) 1: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. 2: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. 3: Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. 4: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty- one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office." • Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said the Department of Justice’s discussions to employ the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump -- if true -- amounted to an attempted coup. • McCabe, who was fired from the bureau in March 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions after it was determined he lied to investigators about a leak, sent shock waves through Washington on Thursday for comments he made during an appearance on CBS News' "60 Minutes." • The violations -- calling them leaks dwarfs their significance -- initially were uncovered by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General and confirmed by the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility. They included lack of candor under oath, lack of candor when not under oath, and the improper disclosure of non-public information to the media about the FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The violations stemmed from McCabe's response to an October 2016 Wall Street Journal report about sizeable [in the $500,000 range] campaign donations from Democrats to McCabe's wife, Jill, during her campaign for the Virginia State Senate. The investigation found that McCabe instructed FBI lawyer Lisa Page and FBI public affairs chief Michael Kortan to work with the Journal's reporter to set the record straight. Page’s statements to investigators were “critical” because they directly contradicted her boss, McCabe. According to a congressional source, McCabe's lack of candor about the contact with the WSJ reporter led to his firing. Then-FBI Director James Comey claimed he never authorized the leak to the Wall Street Journal. • • • WHAT WAS THE 'QUID PRO QUO' AFFAIR? Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge reported on February 14 that : "FBI emails show agency officials scrambled to respond to Hillary Clinton legal team leading up to 2016 election. A Fox News inquiry about an alleged quid pro quo involving a senior State Department official and Hillary Clinton’s classified emails apparently was so sensitive that then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was called on to give his approval, according to newly released emails disclosed as a result of a federal lawsuit. The 10 pages of email traffic from mid-October, 2016, just weeks before the presidential election, were obtained by Judicial Watch as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit and were revealed Monday. They showed that the FBI's top brass quickly circulated Fox News' questions about an alleged offer from the State Department's then-Under Secretary of State for Management, Patrick Kennedy (yes, that Patrick Kennedy), to give the FBI additional personnel slots in Iraq in exchange for the FBI reducing the classification of a Clinton email. Almost all of those executives have since left the bureau -- some fired, others reassigned, demoted or retired." • Herridge describes the 'quid pro quo' negotiation : "Most of the emails about the alleged quid pro quo, were redacted under the same FOIA exemption for deliberative processes, known as “(b)(5) inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency. Earlier, Kortan replied that the response would be sent to all SACs -- the FBI acronym for Special Agents in Charge, who are heads of an office or region. The Fox News query from Oct. 15, 2016, focused on FBI interview summaries and notes -- which were provided days earlier to the House Government Oversight and Intelligence Committees -- containing allegations of a quid pro quo between Kennedy and the FBI over at least one classified email. 'In return for altering the classification, the possibility of additional slots for the FBI at missions overseas was discussed,' then-House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said. As Fox News previously reported, FBI interviews, known as 302s, revealed the allegation that Kennedy applied pressure to subordinates to change classified email codes so they would be shielded from Congress and the public." • According to Herridge, BENGHAZI intel was at the heart of the 'quid pro quo' controversy -- it involved intelligence about suspects in the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, two government sources told Fox News in October 2016. Heavily redacted FBI interview summaries, known as 302s, state that Patrick Kennedy, a top lieutenant to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, wanted to deep-six the email -- which was one of two on her personal server that kick-started the FBI investigation into the mishandling of classified information on her unsecured system. Herridge states : "The November 18, 2012, email sent to then-Secretary Clinton by aide Jake Sullivan contains the subject line 'Fw:FYI - Report of arrests -- possible Benghazi connection.' It contains 'B1' redactions for classified information and 'B1.4D' redactions for 'Foreign relations or foreign activities of the United States, including confidential sources' -- as well as 'B7' redactions covering 'law enforcement' activities. The FBI files say Kennedy offered a 'quid pro quo' -- allowing the FBI more agents in countries where they’re forbidden, in exchange for changing the email’s 'SECRET' classification. According to the documents, Kennedy wanted the record declassified and marked with a code that would shield it from public scrutiny. The State Department confirmed Kennedy was discussing the Benghazi email in question....Republican lawmakers believe Kennedy was going to the mat over the Benghazi email in an effort to kill the FBI investigation. 'It demands deep investigation....when you have the FBI themselves say that there was a quid pro quo negotiation that was going on to manipulate the classification of documents, that goes to the highest degree,' House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said....'And that's why I feel so strongly that Patrick Kennedy should immediately be relieved of his position." Fox News first reported in August 2015 that the Sullivan email -- along with a record from Clinton aide Huma Abedin -- both containing classified information were the catalysts for the FBI probe. The records were identified in nearly 300 Benghazi emails provided to Congress. The Intelligence Community inspector general referred the matter to the bureau due to the classified intelligence from multiple agencies including the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and FBI." • Herridge provided more corroboration for the story : "The FBI interview summary with a senior official at the bureau's records management division in Winchester, Va., says he was contacted by the agent working with Kennedy. '[Redacted] indicated he had been contacted by PATRICK KENNEDY, Undersecretary of State, who had asked his assistance in altering the email's classification in exchange for a 'quid pro quo,' 'the 302 states. '[Redacted] advised that in exchange for marking the email unclassified, STATE would reciprocate by allowing the FBI to place more Agents in countries where they are presently forbidden.' A second summary states Kennedy wanted an obscure B9 code applied to the email, allowing Kennedy to 'archive the document in the basement of DoS (Department of State) never to be seen again.' B9 is an exemption for 'geological and geophysical information and data.' In a written statement...the State Department questioned the competency of FBI investigators and the accuracy of the interview summaries that report Kennedy wanted a backroom deal on the record. 'Speaking to what actually did occur -- Under Secretary Kennedy sought to understand the FBI's process for withholding certain information from public release. Reference to a b9 exemption is mistaken....In any case, the document still would have been released on our FOIA website.' In a written statement, Kennedy also denied 'bargaining.' BUT, seasoned national security defense attorneys said an FBI 302 is a document of record. 'An FBI 302 does not contain opinion work by the FBI,' defense lawyer Edward MacMahon Jr. said. 'If somebody said that somebody offered me [that] for something else, and that's in a 302, that agent is going to say I’m sure that that's exactly what happened.' Pressing for changes to the email classification after a congressional subpoena and preservation order were issued in March 2015 would have the effect of changing evidence, according to Republicans pursuing the matter. 'The FBI thought this information was not relevant and that is just stunning to me because this is some of the most unbelievable set of documents that we've seen to date,' Chaffetz said. 'It really goes to the core of why we're so concerned.' State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that while redactions are made to protect exempt information from public release, 'That does not affect whether a document has been preserved for purposes of a congressional subpoena.' The FBI and State Department both emphasize that no 'quid pro quo' took place. The email classification was not changed in the end, and no additional FBI agents were assigned overseas." • BUT, Herridge added in 2016 : "In a Washington Post interview Tuesday, the now-retired FBI agent who dealt with Kennedy confirmed they discussed doing a favor for one another, but when the agent discovered a classified Benghazi email was involved, he turned Kennedy down. But one of the FBI agent's colleagues told investigators the agent in fact pressured him to change the email to unclassified, and relayed the conversation with Kennedy as a quid pro quo. The retired agent disputes that description." • Herridge also said : "The email that apparently concerned Kennedy was identified by the Intelligence Community's Inspector General as containing classified material, and kickstarted the FBI probe into Clinton's alleged mishandling of classified information. The intelligence related to the 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Fox News was told as far back as August 2015 that Kennedy was running interference on Capitol Hill, but Kennedy, in his FBI interview on December 21, 2015, 'categorically rejected' allegations of classified code tampering. • BUT, according to Herridge : "In a 2016 statement provided to Fox News, the FBI acknowledged that an agency official had been in touch with the State Department about overseas positions, but denied that the conversation was tied to the classification of a Clinton email. 'Prior to the initiation of the FBI’s investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server, the FBI was asked to review and make classification determinations on FBI emails and information which were being produced by the State Department pursuant to FOIA. The FBI determined that one such email was classified at the Secret level. A senior State Department official requested the FBI re-review that email to determine whether it was in fact classified or whether it might be protected from release under a different FOIA exemption,' the FBI said. The [FBI] statement continued : "A now-retired FBI official, who was not part of the subsequent Clinton investigation, told the State Department official that they would look into the matter. Having been previously unsuccessful in attempts to speak with the senior State official, during the same conversation, the FBI official asked the State Department official if they would address a pending, unaddressed FBI request for space for additional FBI employees assigned abroad. 'Following the call, the FBI official consulted with a senior FBI executive responsible for determining the classification of the material and determined the email was in fact appropriately classified at the Secret level,' the FBI's statement continued. 'The FBI official subsequently told the senior State official that the email was appropriately classified at the Secret level and that the FBI would not change the classification of the email. The classification of the email was not changed, and it remains classified today. Although there was never a quid pro quo, these allegations were nonetheless referred to the appropriate officials for review.' " • The Deep State FBI always has a glib answer, doesn't it. • • • McCABE'S CBS INTERVIEW ABOUT THE OBSTRUCTION INVESTIGATION OF TRUMP. On February 14, WND reported that former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, fired last year after lying and leaking confidential information, disclosed in a “60 Minutes” interview that he launched an obstruction investigation into President Trump. And he told CBS News that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s offer to “wear a wire” to trap the President was genuine. McCabe, the Hill reports, told Scott Pelley that DOJ officials discussed removing the President under the 25th Amendment, which provides a constitutional process should a president become disabled. McCabe was on 60 Minutes to promote his new book, “The Threat : How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.” Pelley, appearing on “CBS This Morning” last Thursday to discuss the interview, said McCabe told him Justice Department officials were trying to figure out “what to do” with Trump during the eight days between the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Pelley said : “There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the President of the United States under the 25th Amendment. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the President.” There also were “multiple” offers from Rosenstein to wear a recording device while talking with the President, he claimed. Pelley said McCabe took Rosenstein’s offer seriously, and “he took it to the lawyers at the FBI to discuss it.” McCabe, according to Pelley, said he ordered an investigation into Trump over obstruction of justice after the President fired Comey. DOJ on Thursday denied McCabe’s claims, insisting Rosenstein never authorized any consideration of invoking the 25th Amendment. The DOJ statement read : “There is no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment, nor was the [deputy attorney general] in a position to consider invoking the 25th Amendment.” Rosenstein has insisted the comments about wearing a wire were jokes. • President Trump reacted to the Deep State FBI and DOJ alleged that he had "colluded with Russia" to win the 2016 election, tweeting that McCabe was a “big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax” and a “puppet for Leakin’ James Comey.” The President was referring to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to transmit classified information while she was Secretary of State under Barack Obama. WND reports : "When she ran for president in 2016, her campaign funded a “Dossier” of unverified claims about Trump that was used by the Obama administration to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. The Dossier helped fuel the allegations of collusion that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. After nearly two years, however, Mueller’s probe, as well as House and Senate investigations, have found no evidence of collusion." • CBS said McCabe told Pelley he ordered the investigation of the President because he wanted to make sure the “Russia case” was on “solid ground.” Pelley said the “most illuminating and surprising thing in the interview to me were these eight days in May when all of these things were happening behind the scenes that the American people really didn’t know about. There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the President of the United States under the 25th Amendment. These were the eight days from Comey’s firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what do with the President.” • President Trump also charged that McCabe was part of the implementation of the “insurance policy” in case Clinton lost. The backup plan mentioned in texts between then-FBI lead investigator Peter Strzok and his paramour, McCabe attorney Lisa Page, apparently was the Dossier and the allegations of collusion that could lead to impeachment. A lawyer who formerly represented President Trump predicted this week that Mueller won’t issue a final report, because he has NO EVIDENCE of collusion. • • • THE STRZOK-PAGE-McCABE COLLUSION 'CASE.' Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge reported in September, 2018, that : "A transcript of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page's House deposition reveals she testified that investigators had no answers on collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia before the appointment of special counsel Mueller. Text messages from disgraced FBI figures Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, discussing whether to open a 'case' in a 'formal chargeable way' after Director James Comey was fired, are under fresh scrutiny after Page told congressional investigators there was no evidence of Russian collusion at the time, according to three congressional sources. Two hours after Comey's termination became public on May 9, 2017, Strzok, a now-former FBI agent, texted Page, his then-colleague and lover : 'We need to open the case we've been waiting on now while Andy is acting.' 'Andy' is a reference to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe who temporarily took over the bureau until Christopher Wray was confirmed as director in August 2017. Page, a former FBI attorney, replied to Strzok : 'We need to lock in (redacted). In a formal chargeable way. Soon.' Strzok concurred. 'I agree. I've been pushing and I'll reemphasize with Bill,' believed to be Bill Priestap, the head of the FBI's counterintelligence division. The text messages were provided to Congress earlier this year, and among the six months of missing messages blamed on software and technical issues with the FBI issued Samsung phones. The recovered texts cover December 2016 to May 2017, including Comey's firing, and the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller." • Herridge further explained : "While it is unclear what 'case' Strzok and Page are talking about opening, three Republican sources on the House intelligence, and judiciary committees, said the texts demanded further explanation. If there was no solid evidence of Russian collusion, as Page recently testified, the sources questioned whether 'the case' relates to obstruction, and the President's decision to fire Director Comey. The sources asked not to be identified citing the sensitivity of the ongoing investigations. Fox News has learned that during her July deposition, Page declined to clarify the May 9 text. That same month, in his open public testimony, Strzok also declined to answer questions, suggesting there is a connection to Mueller's probe. 'To get into that would relate to ongoing investigations, which, consistent with the department's policy on ongoing investigations and based on the special counsel's equities, I'm not authorized to discuss ongoing investigations,' Strzok testified. After Strzok refused to answer further questions, Representative John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said : 'I know, as a former US attorney, that if, in fact, that's what happened, I know that whoever is the subject of that case that was opened -- now that Andy is acting -- and whoever you and Ms. Page talked about needing to be locked in soon in a formal chargeable way, well, they would have had their civil liberties violated. They would have been deprived of due process.'.... The texts, and Page's testimony, congressional sources said, raise significant questions about the probe's foundation and whether by the summer of 2017 it had largely shifted away from alleged Russia collusion." • • • WERE TWO CABINET OFFICIALS READY TO USE THE 25TH AMENDMENT TO GET RID OF PRESIDENT TRUMP? Again, we look to Fox News and Catherine Herridge, who reported on Sunday that : "Former top FBI lawyer James Baker, in closed-door testimony to Congress, detailed alleged discussions among senior officials at the Justice Department about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office, claiming he was told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said two Trump Cabinet officials were 'ready to support' such an effort. The testimony was delivered last fall to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. Fox News has confirmed portions of the transcript. It provides additional insight into discussions that have returned to the spotlight in Washington as fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe revisits the matter during interviews promoting his forthcoming book. Baker did not identify the two Cabinet officials. But in his testimony, the lawyer said McCabe and FBI lawyer Lisa Page came to him to relay their conversations with Rosenstein, including discussions of the 25th Amendment. 'I was being told by some combination of Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, that, in a conversation with the Deputy Attorney General, he had stated that he -- this was what was related to me -- that he had at least two members of the President’s Cabinet who were ready to support, I guess you would call it, an action under the 25th Amendment,' Baker told the committees. The 25th Amendment provides a mechanism for removing a sitting President from office. One way that could happen is if a majority of the President’s Cabinet says the President is incapable of discharging his duties. Rosenstein, who still works at the Justice Department but who is expected to exit in the near future, has denied the claims since they first surfaced in the media last year. Fox News requested further comment from the parties involved. Lawyers for Baker and McCabe declined comment, as did an FBI spokesperson." The testimony, for which there are criminal penalties if the witness lies to congressional investigators, comes as McCabe, who was fired last year by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has discussed the alleged meetings as he promotes his forthcoming book. During his testimony, Baker acknowledged he was not directly involved in the May 2017 discussions but testified over a two-day period in October that McCabe and Page came to him contemporaneously after meeting with Rosenstein for input in the days after Comey was fired by the President....'I had the impression that the deputy attorney general had already discussed this with two members in the President’s Cabinet and that they were...onboard with this concept already,' Baker said....Baker also said he did not know the names of the two Cabinet officials. 'Lisa and Andy did not tell me, and my impression was they didn’t know themselves,' he said." • BUT, when the New York Times broke the story in September, it reported that Rosenstein told McCabe he might be able to persuade then-Attorney General Jeff SESSIONS and then- Secretary of Homeland Security and later White House chief of staff John KELLY to invoke the 25th Amendment. • CBS's Pelley said people involved were "counting noses" and considering who might agree to the idea. McCabe told Pelley about a May, 2017, phone call with President Trump : "I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage. And that was something that troubled me greatly." • There are now renewed calls from the top Republicans on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for McCabe and Rosenstein to testify before their respective panels, following McCabe's comments about these discussions. Rosenstein did not appear for Capitol Hill testimony to clarify these discussions, despite multiple requests from lawmakers, when Republicans held the majority last year. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham tweeted : “After Mr. McCabe’s 60 Minutes interview, it is imperative that he, and others, come before @senjudiciary to fully explain how and why a FISA warrant was issued against Carter Page and answer questions about what appears to be, now more than ever, bias against President Trump.” • In October, during a separate closed-door interview, another senior FBI lawyer Sally Moyer, who sometimes worked with Page, described Page’s private reaction to the claim that Rosenstein’s comments were sarcastic : “It was when the news hit about the wiretap and the department’s position and what they were saying happened, and she was indicating she did not believe that they were telling the truth,” Moyer said. Also during the testimony, Moyer said the chances of securing a 2016 surveillance warrant for a Trump campaign aide were only “50/50” without the controversial anti-Trump “Dossier,” according to transcripts confirmed by Fox News. Moyer’s testimony appears to underscore how critical the Dossier -- funded by the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign -- was in obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, and appears to conflict with Democratic assertions that the Dossier played a limited role in the process. Asked whether the FBI would have been able to establish probable cause if the application “did not have the Christopher Steele information in it,” Moyer responded : "So I think it's a close call, like 50/50, 51/49. I really think it's a close call." • Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to take over the federal Russia investigation after Comey was fired, signed off on at least one of the FISA applications seeking the authority to spy on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, according to a memo released last year by former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. The memo also asserts that the so-called “Trump Dossier,” which contained unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, was used by the FBI to help obtain the FISA warrants, but key information, including its author's anti-Trump bias and Democratic benefactors, was left out. On the House side, Representative Mark Meadows called on Rosenstein to step down if the reports proved true : “Rod Rosenstein has no business working at the Department of Justice, and if these latest reports are true, he should not only resign immediately but come before Congress and answer questions." • • • DERSHOWITZ CALLS IT A 'COUP D'ETAT.' Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said the Department of Justice’s discussions to employ the 25th Amendment to oust President Trump -- if true -- amounted to an attempted coup. Dershowitz appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” to give his explanation of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s descriptions of Justice Department meetings where he said officials discussed ousting the President : “If [McCabe’s comments are] true, it is clearly an attempt at a coup d’état.” Dershowitz said any justice official who discussed the 25th Amendment in the context of ousting the President "has committed a grievous offense against the Constitution." • Joe diGenova, a former US Attorney for the District of Columbia and a staunch Trump backer says of McCabe's CBS interview : “He has contributed greatly to the literature of confession....McCabe...actually admits to having participated in an [attempted] coup d’état.” • • • McCABE BACK-PEDALS. Being accused by someone as important in legal circles as Alan Dershowitz of entering into a coup d'état was a bucket of ice water being dumped on McCabe's head. BizPac Review notes that "McCabe can’t back-pedal fast enough" from the bombshell ‘coup’ comments : "Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe now contends that his comments about using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office were 'taken out of context and misrepresented.' ” A spokeswoman for the scandal-plagued McCabe issued a statement Friday asserting that he “at no time” participated in, nor was he “aware” of any discussions that were related to employing the 25th Amendment in order to oust Trump from office. BUT, in his bombshell interview with Scott Pelley on CBS's “60 Minutes,” McCabe admitted there was a plan being formulated by himself and Justice Department officials in 2017 to “remove” President Donald Trump from office. McCabe, who was fired from the FBI in March 2018, admitted in the CBS interview that the there had been discussion about invoking the 25th Amendment against the president and that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had volunteered to wear a wire in his meetings with Trump." • Dan Bongino tweeted : "Andrew McCabe is desperate to take back his 25th Amendment comments because this fool basically admitted to taking part in a coup attempt on President Trump. Don’t let him off the hook." • Here are two excerpts form the CBS interview -- you can decide for yourself what McCabe said or did not say -- < https://www.cbsnews.com/video/andrew-mccabe-says-he-ordered-the-obstruction-of-justice-case-of-president-trump-60-minutes/ > AND < https://www.cbsnews.com/video/andrew-mccabe-tells-60-minutes-why-he-opened-investigations-involving-trump/ >. • The White House said in a statement : "Andrew McCabe was fired in total disgrace from the FBI because he lied to investigators on multiple occasions, including under oath. His selfish and destructive agenda drove him to open a completely baseless investigation into the President. His actions were so shameful that he was referred to federal prosecutors. Andrew McCabe has no credibility and is an embarrassment to the men and women of the FBI and our great country." • Vice President Mike Pence Thursday rejected claims made by McCabe. Pence told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell in Poland, where he is attending Middle East talks this week : "I never heard any discussion of the 25th Amendment, and frankly, I find any suggestion of it to be absurd. President Donald Trump has been 'producing for the American people,' he added, and 'I couldn't be more proud to stand with him, and the words, the writings of a disgraced FBI agent won't change that fact for the American people.' Pence emphasized, when Mitchell asked him if he'd ever heard of the claims that he 'had never heard any discussion of the 25th Amendment by members of this government, and I would never expect to.' " • • • DEAR READERS, can we count on AG Bill Barr to proceed on the perpetrators of these seditious actions??? Here is what 18 US Code § 2384 says about sedition : "Seditious conspiracy. If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both." • Renowned constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz -- a Democrat and outspoken Hillary voter -- sees the talk of the 25th Amendment as nothing less than a coup, telling Tucker Carlson : "Well, if that's [McCabe's claim] true, it is clearly an attempt at Coup d'état. Let's take the worst case scenario. Let's assume the President of the United States was in bed with the Russians, committed treason and obstruction of justice. The 25th Amendment simple supply irrelevant to that. That's why have you impeachment provision. The 25th amendment is about Woodrow Wilson having a stroke. It's about a president being shot and not being able to perform his office. It's not about the most fundamental disagreements and impeachable offenses. Any Justice Department official who even mentioned the 25th amendment in the context of President Trump has committed a grievous offense against the Constitution. The framers of the 25th amendment had in mind something very specific and trying to use the 25th amendment to circumvent the impeachment provisions or to circumvent an election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing....They may have believed they were serving the interest of the United States, but you have to obey the law and the law is the Constitution. And the 25th amendment is as clear as could be -- incapacity. Unable to perform office. That's what you need. That's why you need two thirds of the house and two thirds of the Senate agreeing and it has to be on the basis of a medical or psychological incapacity. Not on the basis of even the most extreme crimes-- of which there is no evidence were but even if they were -- that would not be a basis for invoking the 25th amendment. I challenge any left wing person to get on television and to defender the use of the 25th Amendment. I challenge any of my colleagues who are in the get-Trump-at-any- cost camp to come on television and justify the use of the 25th Amendment other than for physical or psychiatric incapacity." • Heavyweight journalist Kimberly Strassel says : "For the first time in this presidency, the Justice Department will have a leader who is apart from the Russia stink -- neither accused of 'collusion' nor obsessed with finding it. He's also uniquely suited to understand the importance of credibility and accountability, having worked in the 1970s at the Central Intelligence Agency, then under intense fire....Mr. Barr may be tempted to fob all this off on the investigations by the US attorney for Utah, John Huber, or the Justice Department inspector general. But Mr. Huber appears to have done little by way of investigation, the inspector general's report could still be a long way out, and in any event these questions merit answers from the nation's top legal officer." • America needs to have answers -- to have any seditionists prosecuted to the full extent of the law -- to free President Trump of the shadows falsely cast over him -- to get on with America's critically important real agendas. Step up and be counted, Attorney General Barr. Step up.