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WATCH: Ex-FBI Director Describes Panic And ‘Terror’ At The Bureau Ahead Of Kash Patel’s Confirmation Vote
Disgraced former deputy and acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe described an atmosphere of “terror” and “panic” at the bureau as agents anticipate the confirmation of President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel.
McCabe — who signed off on a bogus surveillance warrant targeting Trump Campaign officials off the word of Clinton Campaign-funded research — currently works as a legal affairs and national security analyst for CNN. He has for weeks claimed that Patel’s confirmation will bring “chaos” to the bureau and cause thousands of agents to resign, news that conservatives and Trump supporters have welcomed.
During a recent appearance on the network, McCabe was asked about the Trump Department of Justice’s decision to fire dozens of senior FBI officials. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove also asked acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll to provide a list of any agents who worked on the partisan January 6 investigations for a formal review. The list — which amounted to nearly a third of the FBI’s 37,000 employees — could lead to thousands of additional agents being fired.
“This is totally unprecedented. FBI rank and file agents and analysts who make up the vast majority of the field offices who do the work of investigating these cases, of executing search warrants, of executing arrest warrants, doing surveillance, electronic surveillance, whatever it might be, those people are never touched by the political winds that blow through every four years, nor should they be,” McCabe said of the agency that hunted Trump supporters over non-violent trespassing offenses for four years. “As you said, they don’t pick their work, they’re assigned to the work that they do. The work they do is lawful, it’s within FBI policies, and not doing the work is not really an option for them.”
McCabe went on to defend the bureau as a nonpartisan law enforcement agency, even though similar manhunts were never launched for Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020, while pro-Palestine protesters have not faced so much as a fine for similar conduct.
“And so to be targeted in this way for termination potentially or retribution simply for doing their jobs on a major national security case is incomprehensible to them or anybody that knows the organization,” the former director added.
McCabe went on to state that the agency is in “utter disarray” over expected firings and the impending confirmation of Kash Patel, citing multiple conversations with FBI employees over the last several days. “You know, if you’re anywhere in the middle of that career, not close to retirement, if you get fired, you’re done. That’s the end of your reputation, your ability to get a new job. You lose your pay, you lose your chance at a pension, you lose your health insurance. This is a moment of terror for these people,” the Russian collusion hoax architect continued.
“It is absolutely disgraceful that they are being put through this in the middle of some political gamesmanship or act of retribution. They don’t deserve to be treated this way,” he added before claiming that Trump’s actions are “unlawful.”
