The McCabe report explodes Republican and Democratic myths alike

But let’s step back from a moment from the narrow question of McCabe’s termination. The inspector general’s report is fascinating in other ways. It deals a blow to two different narratives, one Republican and the other Democrat, revealing that the emerging story of the “deep state,” the Trump administration, and the 2016 election is far more complicated than partisans have portrayed.

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First, think about this — the deep state did indeed attack late in the 2016 presidential election, and it torpedoed . . . Hillary Clinton. The foundation of an immense amount of contemporary Republican political paranoia is the unshakeable conviction that the permanent law-enforcement bureaucracy preferred Clinton to Trump and that it took actions designed to both help Clinton win and delegitimize Trump if she lost.

The emerging facts, however, indicate that Comey, McCabe, and even Page departed from DOJ policy late in the campaign to hit the Clinton campaign, hard, with news that (1) confirmed that the email investigation had been reopened; (2) confirmed the existence of an FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation; and (3) exposed deep rifts with the Obama DOJ, including McCabe’s dramatic confrontation with a senior Obama official who “expressed concerns about FBI agents taking overt steps in the CF Investigation during the presidential campaign.”

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