Up To 10 Senior FBI Officials, Including Acting Director, May Testify Against Trump: Report
The noose is tightening.
Senior FBI officials, including the organization’s highest ranking officials, may be called to testify against Donald Trump in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice by trying to impede the FBI’s Russia investigation.
The revelation comes from a new report by VOX which noted that after the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe informed several FBI officials that they should prepare to be possible witnesses the investigation.
That list of senior FBI officials includes McCabe himself as well as former FBI Director James Comey.
According to the report, the revelation seems to make the special counsel’s case even stronger than previously thought.
Vox quoted a senior law enforcement official saying, “What you are going to have is the potential for a powerful obstruction case.”
“You are going to have the [former] FBI director testify, and then the acting director, the chief of staff to the FBI director, the FBI’s general counsel, and then others, one right after another. This has never been the word of Trump against what [James Comey] has had to say. This is more like the Federal Bureau of Investigation versus Donald Trump.”
According to VOX, the officials expected to be witnesses are: “McCabe himself; Jim Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff; James Baker, the general counsel of the FBI; David Bowdich, who as the FBI’s associate director is the agency’s third-highest official; and Carl Ghattas, the head of the FBI’s national security division and a legal adviser to McCabe. McCabe was deputy director of the FBI until May, when he became acting director after President Trump fired Comey.”
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