The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
by Andrew G. McCabe
View on GoodreadsFormer FBI Deputy Director (and briefly Acting Director) Andrew McCabe's memoir spanning his career — counter-terrorism, the Hillary Clinton email investigation, the Russia probe, his firing by Jeff Sessions 26 hours before retirement — written from inside the institution Trump spent four years attacking.
Core ideas
- The FBI's institutional self-image — apolitical, evidence-driven, mission-focused — is the book's load-bearing premise; whether the reader accepts it shapes how the rest reads, but McCabe's case for it is detailed.
- The Trump-Comey-McCabe sequence is reconstructed in detail from inside, including the Oval Office meetings and the post-Comey-firing decisions that put the obstruction question on the record.
- The firing 26 hours before retirement — costing McCabe his pension — is treated as part of a deliberate political effort to punish and discredit, not as an isolated personnel matter.
Published2019
Pages282
ISBN9781250207593
ReadAug 2024
