Ex-FBI Deputy Director Slams DHS Claims About Latest ICE Shooting: ‘They Have No Credibility’

Ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says President Donald Trump and his administration “have no credibility” regarding details of the shooting Wednesday in Minnesota by a federal immigration agent — because they “deliberately” mischaracterized Renee Good after she was killed last week.

The senior law enforcement analyst on Thursday joined CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown to discuss Trump’s threat of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 should protesters in Minnesota continue, in the president’s words, “attacking the Patriots of I.C.E.” there.

Tensions in Minneapolis increased Wednesday after a federal officer shot a person in the leg in purported self-defense. Officials from the Department of Homeland Security said two other people had attacked the officer while he was attempting to make an arrest.

When asked if the shooting was “justified,” McCabe torched the DHS as untrustworthy.

“They have no credibility in terms of the way that they are talking about and characterizing the people involved in these events,” said McCabe. “They absolutely mischaracterized, deliberately mischaracterized Ms. Good and her partner as terrorists.”

The analyst noted that neither Good nor her widow had committed “any act of terrorism.”

Footage from last week’s incident in Minnesota showed Good partially blocking a road with her car and attempting to drive off when ICE officer Jonathan Ross fired multiple shots, killing her.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Good had committed “an act of terrorism.” Trump also blamed Good for the shooting, and his Justice Department has since reportedly asked that her widow be investigated “for possible federal charges.”

“So, we know that we can’t trust what the government is saying about what’s happening on the ground,” McCabe said Thursday. “So now you think about what happened last night, and we essentially know nothing at this point, so it’s really hard to evaluate that.”

Brown noted earlier in the show that the Insurrection Act allows the president to use military force against American citizens — and explained that it can only be legally invoked if there’s an actual insurrection or clear-cut interference with state or federal law.

In an early-morning social media post Thursday, Trump warned he might employ the act.

“If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

McCabe told Blitzer and Brown that there have been a series of “unfortunately violent protests” across the country in recent years and that “not one of them” prompted any other president to invoke the Insurrection Act and wield the U.S. military against citizens.

He warned: “We cannot accept what the government is telling us whole cloth.”