Catherine Herridge spent almost her entire career at Fox News, before taking a job at CBS News just a few weeks ago. Herridge was at Fox since the very first year it became a 24-hour news channel. She was there a long time, and I was sad to see her move over to CBS. Out of all the reporters in Washington, DC, you can probably count the fair, competent and professional ones on one hand. She was one of them. And now she’s proven that fact once again, even though she’s over at CBS News.
Herridge uncovered a bombshell buried within the Inspector General report that finally came out on December 9th. To be honest, I couldn’t make it through the IG report. I read the Mueller report in its entirety earlier this year, but there just weren’t enough hours in December for me to wade through the IG report’s 500-plus pages. Catherine Herridge did make it through the IG report, however, and here is what jumped out at her on Page 177.
Then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wanted Christopher Steele’s Russian potty dossier details with their “potentially compromising material” included in the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that was going to be distributed to all of the intel agencies in late December of 2016. Why? Because Obama ordered McCabe to do that. Here’s a direct quote from the IG report:
“The Intel Section Chief said that [Andrew] McCabe understood President Obama’s request for the ICA to require the participating agencies to share all information relevant to Russia and the 2016 elections, and the Steele election reporting qualified at a minimum due to concerns over possible Russian attempts to blackmail Trump.”
There you have it. Congrats to Catherine Herridge on picking that tidbit out of the 500-plus page IG report.
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I believe Obama was more concerned about blackmailing Trump and ruining his time in office more than than the fake news narrative concerning Russian collusion. Let’s pray that the true Democrat Ukrainian collusion is exposed and the Deep State held accountable.
David DeGerolamo
