Years would pass sometimes until we could read from a new book on what went on in Watergate and Nixon's eventual resignation. (yes I go back that far) The difference today is that new books are being published almost every other week....two by Cliff Sims and Chris Christie within the last few weeks.....and Andrew McCabe's today......The Threat....How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.
Team of Vipers by Sims is an honest inside look into the Trump White House.....and Christie's Let Me Finish is necessary in understanding Donald Trump's election victory. McCabe's book is something else altogether. You simply have to read this side of the story to be honest with yourself.
The author takes us from his days as an intern in the Justice Department when he first caught the bug to be an FBI agent....to his learning through the news that he was fired....twenty-six hours before his planned retirement; but to begin the book he utilizes an imaginative tool to tell the reader about himself. Somewhere today in the bowels of the FBI there would be his original application and a background check....an FD-302. He uses the concise summary method of this ubiquitous FBI report on investigations....to describe to the reader what this his own FD-302 probably read like....thus telling us about his life and family at the time. We then see him put the time in as he worked his way up the ladder in the Bureau. McCabe....a lifelong Republican....who cut his teeth in the FBI on Russian corruption....seemed like the average all-American boy....that is until Donald Trump eventually comes along....which unfortunately is the same picture that I have seen in a number of other people involved in the Trump administration.
The biggest problem with the book is that the author does what we do with President Trump....we avoid the difficult stuff. (if it furthers our agenda....we bring it out....but if it hinders that agenda....we act like it doesn't even exist) McCabe writes considerably about Hilary Clinton's email scandal.....and he does say that he recommended a special prosecutor for it.....but here's a man who must have great investigative skills....but who hardly used those skills when evaluating Hilary Clinton. Benghazi was mentioned once....once! You would think that a man who is so dedicated to defending Americans would have addressed this issue with anger....but he didn't.
Andrew McCabe's wife ran for the Virginia state senate....as a Democrat....and lost.....wherein President Trumped sent out one of his famous tweet attacks....but why....why would a married couple....one who was near the top of the FBI.....and the other a prominent pediatrician....why would they want to enter Virginia politics? He says that he sought legal and ethical advice beforehand on her running....and I guess that he did.....but he should have had the sense to veto this political race without having to seek advice....which turned out to be bad advice....and then for her campaign to accept an enormous amount of money from Clinton people? No...Andrew McCabe made mistakes that brought a lot of his problems upon himself.
This investigation was tainted. McCabe naturally doesn't address this....but in what he does address....the genuine cause for concern on President Trump....and the need at least for an investigation on Russian ties....he succeeds.
The reader does learn a lot about the FBI in the book....and the other side in the Russian investigation controversy is presented....but what the conservative needs to read....(and I've read the same thing in many other books)....is that Donald Trump has some significant problems....significant problems....somewhere....that makes him say some of the things that he says....and do some of the things that he does.
Quote from page 136...."Then the president talked about Venezuela. That's the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they're right on our back door."
Team of Vipers by Sims is an honest inside look into the Trump White House.....and Christie's Let Me Finish is necessary in understanding Donald Trump's election victory. McCabe's book is something else altogether. You simply have to read this side of the story to be honest with yourself.
The author takes us from his days as an intern in the Justice Department when he first caught the bug to be an FBI agent....to his learning through the news that he was fired....twenty-six hours before his planned retirement; but to begin the book he utilizes an imaginative tool to tell the reader about himself. Somewhere today in the bowels of the FBI there would be his original application and a background check....an FD-302. He uses the concise summary method of this ubiquitous FBI report on investigations....to describe to the reader what this his own FD-302 probably read like....thus telling us about his life and family at the time. We then see him put the time in as he worked his way up the ladder in the Bureau. McCabe....a lifelong Republican....who cut his teeth in the FBI on Russian corruption....seemed like the average all-American boy....that is until Donald Trump eventually comes along....which unfortunately is the same picture that I have seen in a number of other people involved in the Trump administration.
The biggest problem with the book is that the author does what we do with President Trump....we avoid the difficult stuff. (if it furthers our agenda....we bring it out....but if it hinders that agenda....we act like it doesn't even exist) McCabe writes considerably about Hilary Clinton's email scandal.....and he does say that he recommended a special prosecutor for it.....but here's a man who must have great investigative skills....but who hardly used those skills when evaluating Hilary Clinton. Benghazi was mentioned once....once! You would think that a man who is so dedicated to defending Americans would have addressed this issue with anger....but he didn't.
Andrew McCabe's wife ran for the Virginia state senate....as a Democrat....and lost.....wherein President Trumped sent out one of his famous tweet attacks....but why....why would a married couple....one who was near the top of the FBI.....and the other a prominent pediatrician....why would they want to enter Virginia politics? He says that he sought legal and ethical advice beforehand on her running....and I guess that he did.....but he should have had the sense to veto this political race without having to seek advice....which turned out to be bad advice....and then for her campaign to accept an enormous amount of money from Clinton people? No...Andrew McCabe made mistakes that brought a lot of his problems upon himself.
This investigation was tainted. McCabe naturally doesn't address this....but in what he does address....the genuine cause for concern on President Trump....and the need at least for an investigation on Russian ties....he succeeds.
The reader does learn a lot about the FBI in the book....and the other side in the Russian investigation controversy is presented....but what the conservative needs to read....(and I've read the same thing in many other books)....is that Donald Trump has some significant problems....significant problems....somewhere....that makes him say some of the things that he says....and do some of the things that he does.
Quote from page 136...."Then the president talked about Venezuela. That's the country we should be going to war with, he said. They have all that oil and they're right on our back door."
