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President Donald Trump has grown increasingly disenchanted with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who has served as the nation's top intelligence official for nearly two years, leading some administration officials to worry he will soon be dismissed, according to people familiar with the matter.
The president has never seen Coats—a former U.S. senator from Indiana—as a close or trusted adviser, the people said. But he has become more frustrated with him in recent weeks over public statements that Trump sees as undercutting his policy goals, particularly with respect to reaching a disarmament agreement with North Korea. The people familiar with the matter, who like others interviewed for this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, did not believe that Coats would be fired immediately but said Trump is considering removing him. They also noted that Trump sometimes grows angry with officials but stops short of dismissing them. Trump is still "enraged" about Coats' congressional testimony on national security threats last month, believing that the director undercut the president's authority when he shared intelligence assessments about Iran, North Korea and the Islamic State that are at odds with many of Trump's public statements, said one adviser who spoke with the president over the weekend. Trump had seemed to put the episode behind him and claimed shortly after the hearing that Coats and CIA Director Gina Haspel told him they'd been "misquoted" in their comments at the televised hearing. But privately, the president has continued to fume, and this weekend he told the adviser that Coats is "not loyal" and that "he's not on the team." A White House official separately said Trump has recently complained about Coats' public statements, which he believed had undermined him. Another White House official said that the president's frustration with Coats was real but that he likely wouldn't be fired anytime soon. At the intelligence director's headquarters in Northern Virginia, there was no sense that Coats' termination was imminent, said a former senior intelligence official who spoke with people there on Tuesday morning. "This has been a tense relationship for a long time," the former official said. "Most people don't think it's happening tomorrow. But, yes, they think it's just a matter of time." Trump has been asking confidantes for suggestions on who could replace Coats, according to the adviser. In venting his anger at Coats, the president was following a familiar pattern that precedes his dismissal of Cabinet officials. Trump often grouses about disloyalty with the understanding that his interlocutors will speak to reporters, thereby putting the offending official on notice that their days are numbered. A spokesman for Coats declined to comment. Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee were upset by the prospect of Coats' firing. "Dan Coats is a model public servant," said Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, a panel member who was at the hearing about threats. "When a president - any president - denigrates or ignores factual information presented by the intelligence community . . . he or she is sending a message to the intelligence community: 'Don't tell me things I don't want to hear.' " Early in the Trump administration, Coats forged a tight bond with then-CIA director Mike Pompeo, who has become one of the president's most trusted foreign policy advisers as secretary of state. Pompeo is now the administration's point man on countering Iran, a major administration goal, and nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea. When Coats attends Trump's daily intelligence briefing, he has sometimes been unable to secure the president's attention and to keep him from veering off on tangents, the former official said. story continues below As Pompeo's star has risen, the president has also grown to admire Haspel, according to U.S. officials; she became CIA director in May. That has left Coats as something of an odd man out. He is not a particularly hands-on manager and has delegated the day-to-day running of the director's office to his principal deputy, Sue Gordon, a career intelligence officer with nearly 30 years of experience, current and former officials said. "He is not uninvolved, but he is not a deep-dive manager," said a former senior intelligence official who has known Coats for years and remains in touch with current leaders. The post of intelligence director is seen as one of the most thankless in the intelligence community. But it has been occupied by people with long careers running spy agencies or military commands. Coats had served on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was ambassador to Germany in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which brought German and U.S. intelligence agencies into a closer working relationship. But he has been seen more as a caretaker in the position, not as someone who planned to enact a bold agenda. "It is the case that a lot of people felt that Coats was going to do this for a while and then go do what he was about to do when he took on the job, which is retire and spend time with his grandkids," the former official who spoke to people at Coats' office said. But if he meant to keep his head down, Coats also found himself squaring off publicly with the president, in dramatic and perhaps unintentional ways. In July, Coats was being interviewed onstage at the annual Aspen Security Forum when the White House announced via tweet that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been invited to Washington. Coats was clearly taken by surprise and made little effort to hide his displeasure. "Okaaaay," Coats said. "That's going to be special." The audience erupted in laughter. In the same interview, with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, Coats also said no one had asked him if it was a good idea for Trump to meet privately with Putin at a summit meeting in Helsinki. Trump didn't allow any Cabinet officials or aides to attend the meeting, and several officials have said they couldn't get a reliable account of the conversation between the two leaders, which was attended by only two interpreters, The Washington Post has reported. Coats said that he hadn't been told what happened in the meeting. He said that he would have advised the president, if asked to do so, against speaking one on one with Putin and that U.S. security officials were concerned there were no notes taken. Asked whether it was possible Putin had secretly recorded the more-than-two-hour meeting, Coats answered, "That risk is always there." Trump was livid and believed that Coats was trying to embarrass him in a room filled with high-ranking current and former national security officials, many of them outspoken critics of the president, a senior U.S. official said at the time. Two days later, Coats publicly apologized for what he called an "admittedly awkward response" to the news of the Putin invitation. | ||
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| M.N.: Mr. McCabe, was it not your job TO PREVENT Donald Trump, "the possible Russian asset", who was very well known to the FBI, to become the US President; which probably is the largest "spy scandal" in the recorded human history? Why didn't you do your job properly? | » McCabe: 'I think it's possible' Trump is a Russian asset | ||
M.N.: Mr. McCabe, was it not your job TO PREVENT Donald Trump, "the possible Russian asset", who was very well known to the FBI, to become the US President; which probably is the largest "spy scandal" in the recorded human history?
Why didn't you do your job properly?
Is this because your are just one of those INCOMPETENT ROBOTS - OBAMANITES who care more about their book royalties than the country's security?
Or is it because the obsession with the "Obama's security" and the concern about the perceptions of the "orderly transition" clouded your thinking? Or is it because you were too busy practicing your favorite "COINTELPRO"?
Investigate McCabe, all of the Obama's FBI Leadership, Obama himself, and all the rest of those INCOMPETENT ROBOTS - OBAMANITES! I hope that this term will stay in the History books forever, and it will be written in big red letters for the people to remember, to think, and to analyze, in pain and confusion.
If the ex - FBI Director McCabe is the certified liar, as the TV networks scream about (See Trump attacks McCabe for 'deranged' '60 Minutes' interview - YouTube), then what moral right does the FBI have to consider the "lying to FBI" a crime?
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"Do you still believe the President could be a Russian asset?" asked CNN's Anderson Cooper during an interview with McCabe on "Anderson Cooper 360."
"I think it's possible. I think that's why we started our investigation, and I'm really anxious to see where (special counsel Robert) Mueller concludes that," McCabe said. It's another bombshell comment from McCabe, which comes days after he outlined on Sunday to CBS the reasons top US officials decided to open a counterintelligence probe and obstruction of justice investigation into the President. McCabe is promoting his new book, "The Threat," which paints a stark portrait of his time at the bureau under Trump, describing in vivid detail his version of interactions with top officials at the White House and Justice Department. The book was released Tuesday and became and instant best-seller.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to McCabe's comments on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time," saying McCabe's comment is "hardly dignifying with a response."
CNN's Tammy Kupperman and Katie Bernard contributed to this report."He's a liar and a leaker," Conway said. The former acting FBI director went on the record in that "60 Minutes" interview confirming some previous reports about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: That he raised the idea of wiring himself to surreptitiously record interactions with the President, and mused about which Cabinet officials might support an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment to oust Trump from office. Rosenstein has previously said that comment was mischaracterized. When asked whether he thought someone should wire up to record conversations with the President, McCabe said, "Absolutely not." He added that it was "an incredibly invasive and potentially precedent-setting thing to do," and also said he didn't think it was necessary. He said it would only be necessary to capture evidence of intent, and "we didn't need to do that in this case, we knew what the President intended." McCabe took over as the leader of the FBI when Trump fired James Comey in May 2017. McCabe was pilloried throughout his time leading the department and was eventually fired in 2018, just days shy of his announced retirement date. He's under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, for misleading investigators in their probe of the FBI's handling of the investigation of the Clinton Foundation. McCabe charged that the inspector general report that was used to justify his firing was the result of improper command influence, with it being clear that the President wanted him gone before his scheduled retirement date.
CNN has previously reported McCabe opened an obstruction of justice probe
McCabe had harsh words for the President during his interview with Cooper, charging Trump with undermining the country's top law enforcement agencies for political gain.
into Trump before Mueller's investigation began. It was an idea previously considered by the FBI but only started following former FBI Director James Comey's dismissal in May 2017. Sources previously told CNN the decision to start the investigation included the President's conversation with Comey in the Oval Office asking him to drop the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
"This President is undermining the role of law enforcement, undermining the role of our intelligence infrastructure and negatively impacting the men and women of the FBI, and across the intelligence agencies, (and their) ability to protect this country on a daily basis," McCabe said. He added that there is no doubt in his mind that the President is undermining the "effectiveness and strength" of government institutions. In the interview, McCabe described the events leading up to the decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into the President, saying he's not sure if there are things not yet made public. He said that, following the President's firing of Comey and his mention of Russia as part of the rationale, the FBI was "obligated to open the case" as there was an "articulable basis" to believe a "federal crime has been committed." As to why he didn't speak out earlier, McCabe said he felt he had to make an argument in a thoughtful way about how the President is undermining the justice system. McCabe wouldn't comment on whether the President's family was being looked into by the FBI. He told Cooper that it was not something he was comfortable talking about, saying it "could go to ongoing investigative matters." McCabe said he did not continue to receive updates about the Russia investigation after Mueller was appointed. The former acting FBI director later defended Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and said "the entire country owes him a debt of gratitude" for appointing Mueller. "Rod did the right thing by putting the right person in charge of that investigation." McCabe said he didn't know if Rosenstein should have recused himself from the Russia probe. "It was an incredible time, the simple fact that the deputy attorney general and the acting director of the FBI were trying to figure out how to navigate a situation in which we thought the President of the United States might be involved in obstruction of justice and might be doing that to cover up some sort of inappropriate relationship with the Russians," McCabe said. "It was a head-spinning moment," he added. As he did in his book, McCabe also had unsparing criticism for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. McCabe said his impression on many occasions was that Sessions was not reading the President's daily intelligence brief, and said it was "somewhat confirmed to me when I heard from our own folks that the tablet devices that are used to convey the briefing materials were not being opened on a regular basis." | ||
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| New York Times makes 'obstruction of justice' case against Trump while admitting there's 'no evidence' in long report | ||
An extensive New York Times story published Tuesday purports to take you “inside” President Trump’s “Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him.” But save yourself the precious time and read Trump’s tweets instead.
The news out of the lengthy piece is an allegation that Trump late last year asked then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker if it was possible to appoint U.S. Attorney General for Southern New York Geoffrey Berman, a White House ally, to lead the district’s investigation into Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty in November to charges of perjury, tax evasion, and campaign finance violations. The Times reported that Whitaker “knew he could not put Mr. Berman in charge, since Mr. Berman had already recused himself from the investigation” and admitted that “there is no evidence that he took any direct steps to intervene in the Manhattan investigation.” That’s the extent of news in the story, which otherwise recounts everything Trump has said on Twitter or in news interviews — that he was disappointed with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recusing himself from the Russia probe, that he thought ridding himself of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former FBI Director James Comey would quell the investigation, and that he believes there are conflicted elements at the highest levels of the DOJ working against his presidency. The Times report asserts that Trump's conduct has "exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice," but Trump has made all of his thoughts on all of his actions public over the course of more than a year, and the Times didn’t change anything by repeating it. The article is an excellent source of information, however, if you want to know what mood Trump was in during any number of private conversations with his advisers. [Also read: Why Trump doesn't like Ann Coulter anymore] | ||
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National security expert Samantha Vinograd has warned that there is “still a chance that Vladimir Putin is controlling” President Donald Trump’s White House.
Vinograd, who previously worked on the National Security Council and for the Treasury Department, told CNN that after former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday that he had briefed leaders of Congress—half of whom were Republicans—on the FBI's investigation of Trump and none had raised objections, she wondered if the investigation has continued. “Is that investigation still ongoing? McCabe has said that the president’s moves to undercut investigations, to believe Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence officials, to make personnel decisions based on Russia-related matters all led to this investigation,” Vinograd pointed out. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images “McCabe would have laid that out before the Gang of Eight [a bipartisan group of congressional leaders],” she continued. “But just in the past few days, the counterintelligence red flags are flying a lot higher than they did, arguably, then, when this investigation was first launched [in 2017],” the national security expert said. She suggested that others in the government may have been briefed and that the probe is ongoing. “It is entirely possible…that this investigation is continuing and there is still a chance that Vladimir Putin is controlling the White House,” she concluded. Speaking to the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday morning, McCabe explained the FBI had informed the Gang of Eight it intended to place the president under investigation following the May 2017 firing of his boss, FBI Director James Comey, by Trump. He said that “no one objected” and insisted the investigation followed legal protocols. McCabe also revealed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had floated the idea of getting Cabinet members and the vice president to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. Rosenstein has denied having made the suggestion. Then FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe arrives for a meeting with congressional members of the Oversight and Government Reform and Judiciary committees on December 21, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Trump and his supporters have blasted McCabe’s revelations, made in a recent interview on CBS News’s 60 Minutes, even likening it to a “coup.” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a frequent Trump supporter, has described McCabe’s claims as “beyond stunning,” vowing to launch an investigation into the FBI and the Justice Department. “I promise your viewers the following, that we will have a hearing about who's telling the truth, what actually happened,” Graham told Face the Nation on Sunday. McCabe was fired from his position at the FBI by Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in 2018. A report by the Office of the Inspector General charged that McCabe had lied to or misled federal investigators on at least four occasions. McCabe disputed the report, and his lawyer argued that it had been written under political pressure from the White House. Trump has dismissed McCabe as a liar, slamming the allegations as a conspiracy. “Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying, and now his story gets even more deranged,” Trump posted to Twitter on Monday. “This was the illegal and treasonous ‘insurance policy’ in full action!” Trump said in a follow-up tweet. | ||
| Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him - The New York Times | ||
WASHINGTON — As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late last year about President Trump’s role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump called Matthew G. Whitaker, his newly installed attorney general, with a question. He asked whether Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a Trump ally, could be put in charge of the widening investigation, according to several American officials with direct knowledge of the call.
Mr. Whitaker, who had privately told associates that part of his role at the Justice Department was to “jump on a grenade” for the president, knew he could not put Mr. Berman in charge, since Mr. Berman had already recused himself from the investigation. The president soon soured on Mr. Whitaker, as he often does with his aides, and complained about his inability to pull levers at the Justice Department that could make the president’s many legal problems go away.
Trying to install a perceived loyalist atop a widening inquiry is a familiar tactic for Mr. Trump, who has been struggling to beat back the investigations that have consumed his presidency. His efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finishes his work investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mr. Trump’s public war on the inquiry has gone on long enough that it is no longer shocking. Mr. Trump rages almost daily to his 58 million Twitter followers that Mr. Mueller is on a “witch hunt” and has adopted the language of Mafia bosses by calling those who cooperate with the special counsel “rats.” His lawyer talks openly about a strategy to smear and discredit the special counsel investigation. The president’s allies in Congress and the conservative media warn of an insidious plot inside the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to subvert a democratically elected president.
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An examination by The New York Times reveals the extent of an even more sustained, more secretive assault by Mr. Trump on the machinery of federal law enforcement. Interviews with dozens of current and former government officials and others close to Mr. Trump, as well as a review of confidential White House documents, reveal numerous unreported episodes in a two-year drama.
Matthew G. Whitaker, the former acting attorney general, is now under scrutiny by the House for possible perjury.CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times
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