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Thread: McCabe knew the Russian mob would try to bribe a US President. Against that background, he opened a case in whether Trump is a Russian agent.
Here’s how McCabe concludes his chapter of The Threat covering his time on the Russia desk of the FBI NY Field Office, 1996-2001:
Here’s how McCabe concludes his chapter of The Threat covering his time on the Russia desk of the FBI NY Field Office, 1996-2001:
“One of our worst fears was that the top tier of the vory v zakone (the Russian mafia) would use money to undermine western institutions in which many millions of Americans have faith. That fear had now been realized, and we asked ourselves, what institutions might be next.”
“And we asked whether any American public official might be susceptible to a $200 million bribe. And we asked whether Democracy itself might become a target.”
So now you see what led McCabe to open a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump is a Russian agent.
So now you see what led McCabe to open a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump is a Russian agent.
(By the way, if you have the audiobook version, you can tell the passage above was smash-cut into the reading at a later date. The recording is completely different from the rest of the book. I suspect the passage was intentionally added as a clue.)
The passage is the last 30 seconds of Track 20 (at least of my version) of the audiobook.
