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The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Ep. 72: The FBI's Media Liars

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6624 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this monologue only episode, Eli asks why CNN, allegedly the most trusted name in news, would employ the disgraced former deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe? After the release of US Special Counsel John Durham's final report on Russiagate, McCabe's deceptions have been laid bare. And yet there he is on CNN helping to explain the news to people waiting for flights at airports.  Time Stamps: 00:15 Monologue

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the re-education.

0:02.4

Today's show is an extended monologue that are my thoughts on what looks to be the last chapter of Rushagate, the Durham Report.

0:09.1

I focus on former deputy director Andrew McCain, who has been exposed for his deceptions by Durham and others,

0:17.1

and yet still enjoys a comfy perch from CNN.

0:26.8

I want Americans to understand how the FBI makes these decisions on when to open cases and who to investigate.

0:34.4

It's not because we do it because we like it or we think it's fun or we like

0:37.7

don't like a person or are supporting one political direction or the other. It's because we have

0:44.8

facts and information in our possession that gives rise to an articulable basis to believe

0:50.5

that a threat to national security or a federal crime may have been committed.

0:54.2

Well, let's talk about it. Did you order a counterintelligence investigation into the president?

0:58.6

I did. Well, that was former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on the Today Show on February 19, 2019,

1:06.7

assuring Americans the Bureau doesn't play favorites and doesn't hold grudges.

1:11.3

Despite what the bad orange man said, the FBI follows the rules.

1:15.6

And so when he opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump, he did it for good reasons.

1:22.2

Sure, Jan.

1:23.4

Well, I play this clip now because in part, at least, it is such an obvious load of manure

1:29.5

what Andrew McCabe was just saying in light of what we now have learned from John Dorham,

1:34.7

the special counsel who last week released a devastating report on Crossfire Hurricane.

1:39.4

That's the FBI's investigation into Donald Trump and Russia.

1:43.6

But we didn't really need Durham to expose McCabe.

1:46.5

When he gave these interviews as part of his book tour back in 2019, the special counsel that had

1:52.9

inherited the FBI's investigation already concluded that it lacked any evidence that any American,

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