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McCabe fired
Jeff/Trump—karma always comes back
this is to attack McCabe’s testimony that confirms Comey—Folks this is very dangerous
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all u white men that voted for this thug–this is what he would do to U
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all u white men that voted for this thug–this is what he would do to U
Only if we are “bad actors”…
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This is blatant attempt by 45/ Sessions to throw shade on their character
this nasty nasty 45 who asked Andy who he voted for and asked him why Comey got a plane ride back has a lot of bad karma coming–give out nasty and it comes backQuote from jd4540
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all u white men that voted for this thug–this is what he would do to U
Only if we are “bad actors”…
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Note in His statement McCabe says he starting his career investigating Russian thugs–in the intelligence world nothing happens by Coincidence- Sessions in the end it will all come back to u
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A retired four-star Army general said that he believes that trump[u][/u] is a serious threat to US national security.
Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey tweeted Friday that he reached the conclusion about Trump because the president is refusing to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks.
It is apparent that he is for some unknown reason under the sway of Mr. Putin, he added.
[b] [/b][i] [/i][u][/u][strike][/strike]
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He was fired by recommendation of the career staff at the FBIs internal disciplinary unit. It doesn’t get any less political than that. Keeping him for another 24hrs and allowing him to walk away with millions in pension benefit would make a mockery out of the agencies disciplinary process.
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Lies–like Jeff I can’t recall who is supposed to be recused from Clinton and Russia and lied under oath
-a coward move–if it was a pure Firing they would do it at 8 am–no the cowards do it Friday night
I feel the country has turned on GOP/Trump–who have now lost a Virginia Governorship/Alabama Senate seat and a PA congressional district
many people who voted for Trump with the let’s give him a chance he is a white man -are turning-they see a fraud and liar and worse a loser–I think their venom will be much greater than the GOP anticipated –a wipe out of the GOP party is coming in CaliforniaQuote from fw
He was fired by recommendation of the career staff at the FBIs internal disciplinary unit. It doesn’t get any less political than that. Keeping him for another 24hrs and allowing him to walk away with millions in pension benefit would make a mockery out of the agencies disciplinary process.
There is just stuff you can’t do if you work at the FBI. Lying is pretty high on that list.
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People do things that are fireable everyday and are allowed to quietly retire if they are let in their career.
Canning the guy and costing him pension $$ 48 hours before his retirement sure seems petty and vindictive.
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People do things that are fireable everyday and are allowed to quietly retire if they are let in their career.Canning the guy and costing him pension $$ 48 hours before his retirement sure seems petty and vindictive.
If more people in the federal government got canned for their wrongdoing, maybe we wouldn’t see the level of malfeasance that has come to light lately.
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Ill go a step further.
McCabe will file a challenge saying that the Presidents public comments against him amounted to undue influence on the investigation, the decision to recommend firing, and the firing itself.
And he will win not just the pension he lost but damages too.
(This said irrespective of whether what he did actually was a firable offense…. once Trump started publically attacking him there was no way to avoid bias)
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(This said irrespective of whether what he did actually was a firable offense…. once Trump started publically attacking him there was no way to avoid bias)
‘lack of candor’ is a fireable offense and FBI agents are routinely dismissed for it.
I personally know both someone who is retired from the agency and someone else (wife of a colleague) who went through the process up to graduation from the academy. The real FBI (not the politically twisted nat-sec division) takes honesty very serious. They do consider themselves an neutral elite agency that serves the country, not partisan interests. Characters like McCabe, Strzok, Page and Ohr are despised for not keeping up that standard. -
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People do things that are fireable everyday and are allowed to quietly retire if they are let in their career.Canning the guy and costing him pension $$ 48 hours before his retirement sure seems petty and vindictive.
If more people in the federal government got canned for their wrongdoing, maybe we wouldn’t see the level of malfeasance that has come to light lately.
Start with the man at the top. He brings malfeasance to a whole new level.
McCabes’ firing for lying is exactly the same as Trump firing Comey for his mishandling of poor Hillary Clinton’s investigation, a lie. The real reason is that Trump is worried everything points to him as the criminal liar and is trying to discredit all those who could show him as the real liar.
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[link=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-only-relevant-known-fact-about-mccabes-firing-is-that-he-is-a-key-witness-against-trump.html]https://slate.com/news-an…ess-against-trump.html[/link]
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would be one of the top two or three key witnesses in any obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump. On Friday, Trumps Attorney General Jeff Sessions destroyed McCabe professionally in a way that could ruin his reputation for telling the truth.
These are the most important things to remember after Sessions fired McCabe for an undefined failure to be forthcoming during an investigation of his role in the bureaus work on the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
The report documenting McCabes alleged misconduct was not made public. Instead, Sessions released a [link=https://twitter.com/ABC/status/974830783276953603/photo/1]statement[/link] with vague assertions of wrongdoing. McCabe was subject to a Department of Justice inspector generals report about his conduct, reportedly as it pertained to leaks to the Wall Street Journal about the FBIs Clinton investigation at the height of the 2016 election. Michael Horowitz, the departments IG who would have issued the report, is an Obama appointee with a sterling [link=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/washington-braces-fbi-bombshell-nunes-inspector-general]reputation[/link].
[b]Without the details of his report, though, its impossible to assess the validity of the firing and to what extent a public pressure campaign to attack one of the chief witnesses against Trump might have influenced the decision.[/b]
[b]Again, that report was not released, but Sessions cited it as the reason for McCabes firing.[/b] The investigation into McCabe concluded, according to Sessions, that he had made unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candorincluding under oathon multiple occasions.
The firing is not only a way to strip McCabe of his pension, but would be a perfect way to try to discredit McCabe in any future testimony against the president. Indeed, the president wasted no time in gloating over the firing on Friday and attacking the credibility of both Comey and McCabe.
In the absence of the IG report, its impossible to evaluate the merits of this harsh treatment of a 21-year FBI professional, the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, [link=https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/974843120423788544]tweeted[/link] on Friday. That it comes after the President urged the DOJ to deprive McCabe of his pension, and after his testimony, gives the action an odious taint.
As McCabe and Schiff noted, the firing also comes after a public pressure campaign on Twitter by the president of the United States to attack McCabe personally, a campaign that represented a wish to ultimately have him fired.
[b]If they havent already, Muellers team should request that IG report first thing Monday morning to determine how this decision was made and if there was any motivation to further obstruct his investigation by anyone involved. He should also call as witnesses every single person involved in the investigation and the decision.[/b]
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It has the appearance that he should’ve been fired based on what the FBI peers recommended. However, I think Dergon hits the nail square on the head. Trump should’ve stayed out of it and not politicized the process. It’s a bad look for one and also Trump’s tweet is going to be exhibit A if McCabe wants to file suit.
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It has the appearance that he should’ve been fired based on what the FBI peers recommended. However, I think Dergon hits the nail square on the head. Trump should’ve stayed out of it and not politicized the process. It’s a bad look for one and also Trump’s tweet is going to be exhibit A if McCabe wants to file suit.
Except that the written recommendation from the office of professional responsibility had been written months ago and the agents/managers from that office will have an easy time explaining how their recommendation fits in with prior firings they have conducted.
Attorney: Special Agent Murpy, did the Tweet from the president of the United States in any way inform your decision to recommend termination of Deputy Director McCabe.
SA Murphy: No Sir, it didn’t.
And that’ll be the end of that line of argument.
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At this stage, all that is available are a general, high-level picture of the process that played outand the broadest sense of the parameters of the dispute between McCabe and the Justice Department leadership that led to his dismissal. The public has no details. It has no specific facts. We have the broad suggestion that McCabe was not truthful with Justice Department investigators but no sense of what he said or what the specific truth was.
[link=https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-we-…-andrew-mccabe]https://www.lawfareblog.c…t-we-…-andrew-mccabe[/link]
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There are, however, at least two features of the action against McCabe that warrant consternation, even if McCabe himself behaved badly enough to justify the sanction. The first is the timing, which is hard to understand. The only factor we can fathom that might justify it is the notion that if McCabe in fact had acted very badly, the window to punish him and thus make an important statement to the bureau workforce was closing.
But we are unaware of prior cases in which authorities rushed through the merits against a long-serving official in a naked and transparent effort to beat the clock of his retirement.
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We will refrain from speculating on the reason for the rush to fire McCabe before his retirement. But it is peculiar. Why, one wonders, could the Justice Department not have handled his misconductif there was misconductthe way it usually does: by detailing it in the inspector generals report and noting that the subject, who has since retired, would otherwise be subject to disciplinary action?
The timing seems particularly irregular in light of a second peculiarity unique to McCabes caseone probably singular in the history of the American republic: Trumps personal intervention in the matter and public demands for the mans scalp. Trump has not been shy about McCabe. He has tormented him both in public and in private, and he publicly demanded his firing on multiple occasions
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So-called ‘recommendations’ to be fired?
Where’s the evidence? Make the report, findings and evidence public.
To be clear, we do not yet know the full details of the IG investigation, the questions investigators asked McCabe or how he responded. One theme I have noticed throughout the past year is that pieces of information leaked from the separate IG, special counsel and congressional investigations have a unique way of being taken without context and spun into conclusory narratives.
This entire debacle has created quite a chasm within the ranks of the bureau. In talking with former colleagues, there are those who think there is no excuse for lying and, if he did so, McCabe should face the consequences, and a camp that is suspicious of the timing of the recommendation, and who believe it would be unduly cruel to deny a public servant a full pension after nearly 22 years of service. -
His statement is out now. Trump politicized the process and his tweets might come back to bite him
“……The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the same type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them.
But looking at that in isolation completely misses the big picture. The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people……”
[link=https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/3/16/17132418/andrew-mccabe-statement]https://www.vox.com/platf…ndrew-mccabe-statement[/link]
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Discussion of his legal options and more background.
[link=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/andrew-mccabe-fbi-legal-recourse-jeff-sessions-466603]https://www.politico.com/…e-jeff-sessions-466603[/link] -
McCabe has Trump memos:
Andrew McCabe the former FBI deputy director just fired by the attorney general kept personal memos regarding President Donald Trump, the AP reports.
Thats according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation who wasnt authorized to discuss the memos publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
This person says the memos are similar to the ones maintained by former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired last May. Comeys series of notes detailed interactions with Trump that Comey said unnerved him.
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You guys wanted him to keep his pension because you like his political position. Had he stated a different position and been fired by OPR you would be all serious and laud the career professionals at DOJ.
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A bit simplistic. The big question is the timing, reality or optics, reality hasn’t been proven and optics are very poor. Why wait for firing till the day before he retires? Looks like a deliberate and vindictive screw job & no K-Y either.
Where is the proof is what you should be asking.
Looks like a hit job.
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A bit simplistic. The big question is the timing, reality or optics, reality hasn’t been proven and optics are very poor. Why wait for firing till the day before he retires? Looks like a deliberate and vindictive screw job & no K-Y either.
Did you want him fired before the OPR investigation was complete or after he retired on his own accord ?
He forced the timing by announcing his retirement.
Where is the proof is what you should be asking.
This was done by career staff based on whatever criteria they appl to these cases. He is not the first DOJ lawyer who got canned for misconduct and he won’t be the last.
He’ll probably appeal and be able to keep his pension. But that’s just a sign of how rotten the federal government has gotten. Even folks found with child porn on their work computers have managed to keep their million dollar pensions. Time for someone to come in and drain the swamp. Too bad there nobody who makes this his cause……. -
this may turn into a silver lining
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) announced Saturday afternoon that he has offered McCabe a job to work on election security in his office, so that he can reach the needed length of service to retire.[b] [/b][i][/i][u][/u][strike][/strike] -
Brennan issued what must surely be the most stunning assault on a sitting president by any former CIA director, in a direct reply to a Trump tweet that proclaimed the departure of McCabe “a great day for democracy.”
“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history,” Brennan wrote, warning the President: “You will not destroy America … America will triumph over you.”[link=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/donald-trump-andrew-mccabe-james-comey-justice/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2018/…mey-justice/index.html[/link]
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Brennan issued what must surely be the most stunning assault on a sitting president by any former CIA director, in a direct reply to a Trump tweet that proclaimed the departure of McCabe “a great day for democracy.”
“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history,” Brennan wrote, warning the President: “You will not destroy America … America will triumph over you.”[link=https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/donald-trump-andrew-mccabe-james-comey-justice/index.html]https://www.cnn.com/2018/…mey-justice/index.html[/link]
Looks like Sessions hit the sciatic nerve of the beast with his decision to sign off on the OPR recommendation for McCabe. Brennan, Powers, all the old insiders are becoming unhinged.
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[url=http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/379000-graham-calls-for-senate-judiciary-hearing-on-mccabe-firing]Lindsey Graham calls for Senate Judiciary hearing on McCabe firing[/url]
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[url=http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/378997-rubio-mccabe-shouldve-been-allowed-to-finish-through-the-weekend]Rubia says McCabe should have been allowed to stay through the weekend[/url]
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I guess Tweedledee and Tweedledum had to chime in.
McCabe wasnt fired to impede anything. He was under investigation in an unrelated case (the Clinton foundation cover-up) and decided to leave while in a SES pay bracket. Sessions didn’t ‘take his pension away’ he just has to wait until age 58 like every other fed. The special rules for law enforcement feds exist to allow the door kickers and and border patrol to retire in their 40s when their body wears out. It wasn’t intended for folks who flew a desk for most of their career.
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A bit simplistic. The big question is the timing, reality or optics, reality hasn’t been proven and optics are very poor. Why wait for firing till the day before he retires? Looks like a deliberate and vindictive screw job & no K-Y either.
Did you want him fired before the OPR investigation was complete or after he retired on his own accord ?
He forced the timing by announcing his retirement.Where is the proof is what you should be asking.
He’ll probably appeal and be able to keep his pension. But that’s just a sign of how rotten the federal government has gotten. Even folks found with child porn on their work computers have managed to keep their million dollar pensions. Time for someone to come in and drain the swamp. Too bad there nobody who makes this his cause…….
Desperate argument if you have to drag child porn into your rationalizing justification for firing McCabe, as if that was somehow relevant other than character assassination by invented and irrational means. Used to be Communists infiltrated the Federal government, now the right is worried about child pornographers infiltrating. If child pornographers do exist in droves in the government, they are likely the finds of 55 Savushkina St. in St. Petersburg.
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You do know McCabe is a republican, right?
[b]A REPUBLICAN MY ENTIRE LIFE[/b]
I have considered myself to be a Republican my entire life, albeit a moderate Republican, McCabe said. Ive voted for every Republican candidate for president in every election, except the 2016 one, in which I did not vote. And I chose not to vote because of the political nature of the work that we were engaged in.
[link=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/words-mccabe-claims-firing-part-ongoing-assault-russia/story?id=53807980]http://abcnews.go.com/Pol…ssia/story?id=53807980[/link]
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this is why I am so glad they lost PA
the republican party is quite sick right now–they have become complicit with a con man who is under a Rasputin/Putin spell–they are eating their own( to take someone’s pension and then brag with a tweet when u can’t even be a man and fire your own personnel in person–like President Obama met with Petraeus( that was courage -dignity and grace)
if they lose in 2018/2020–it just might save the party in the end
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You do know McCabe is a republican, right?
[b]A REPUBLICAN MY ENTIRE LIFE[/b]
I have considered myself to be a Republican my entire life, albeit a moderate Republican, McCabe said. Ive voted for every Republican candidate for president in every election, except the 2016 one, in which I did not vote. And I chose not to vote because of the political nature of the work that we were engaged in.
[link=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/words-mccabe-claims-firing-part-ongoing-assault-russia/story?id=53807980]http://abcnews.go.com/Pol…ssia/story?id=53807980[/link]Historically, there were republicans that were not criminals.
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[link=https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump]Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump[/link]
Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!
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[link=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-craven-firing-of-andrew-mccabe]Jeffrey Toobin[/link]:
If you wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I., on Friday night.
Every sentence is a lie. Every sentence violates norms established by Presidents of both parties. Every sentence displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited to the job he holds.
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McCabe has Trump memos:
Andrew McCabe the former FBI deputy director just fired by the attorney general kept personal memos regarding President Donald Trump, the AP reports.
Thats according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation who wasnt authorized to discuss the memos publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
This person says the memos are similar to the ones maintained by former FBI Director James Comey, who Trump fired last May. Comeys series of notes detailed interactions with Trump that Comey said unnerved him.
Memos. Just reinforces that Sessions was right. If he wrote memos and didn’t turn them over to Mueller right away, it just shows that he was acting in bad faith from the day the new president came into office.
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But we are unaware of prior cases in which authorities rushed through the merits against a long-serving official in a naked and transparent effort to beat the clock of his retirement. Michael Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general who is representing McCabe, described the [link=http://www.bromwichgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bromwich-statement.pdf]process as follows[/link]:
[blockquote] The investigation described in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report was cleaved off from the larger investigation of which it was a part, its completion expedited, and the disciplinary process completed in a little over a week. Mr. McCabe and his counsel were given limited access to a draft of the OIG report late last month, did not see the final report and the evidence on which it is based until a week ago, and were receiving relevant exculpatory evidence as recently as two days ago. We were given only four days to review a voluminous amount of relevant evidence, prepare a response, and make presentations to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. With so much at stake, this process has fallen far short of what Mr. McCabe deserved.
[link=https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-firing-andrew-mccabe]https://www.lawfareblog.c…t-firing-andrew-mccabe[/link]
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“We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in due
course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire
process that led to Mr. McCabes termination and has rendered it
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Eager to attack Trump and Sessions, McCabe throws Comey under the bus:
[link=http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/378919-mccabe-just-made-life-tough-for-comey-and-the-special-counsel]http://thehill.com/opinio…nd-the-special-counsel[/link]
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One of the ex CIA directors pointed out when discussing the Comey ‘leaks’ that if it isn’t classified it isn’t a leak.
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If anyone in the current administration or associated with it were held to the standard FBI agents are in OPR, there would literally be no one left in the Executive Branch. That was former FBI Special Agent Asha Rangappa.
None left? Most would not even make the grade to begin with.
[link=https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2018%2F03%2Fformer-fbi-agent-scorches-foxs-brit-hume-trying-justify-trumps-firing-mccabe%2F]https://twitter.com/AshaR…rumps-firing-mccabe%2F[/link]
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there is reporting that McCabe started an inquiry into Sessions last year when congress members thought he was lying. Like I don’t recall meeting that Russian until the WaPo found the evidence of him meeting the Russian. So the question would be should he have recused himself in the firing process.
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Holy Shi*e…
McCabe Authorized Criminal Probe of Sessions
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a lack of candor, McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, ABC News reports.
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabes previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.
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oops— looks like Dan beat me to it.
I’ll say the odds of McCabe winning a wrongful termination claim just went up significantly.
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there is reporting that McCabe started an inquiry into Sessions last year when congress members thought he was lying. Like I don’t recall meeting that Russian until the WaPo found the evidence of him meeting the Russian. So the question would be should he have recused himself in the firing process.
I guess that ‘insurance policy’ wasn’t worth what he thought it was worth.
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Do you mean McCabe? I suspect he has the DOJ dead to right on wrongful termination even this news. Someone pointed out that it looks like a friendly member of Congress could hire him for a week and that would give him his service. IMO it’s crazy to me anyway that he can retire so early and get a full pension but that’s true for most government positions. Plus he could probably double dip and get a private sector job. That said it really does just look like this was more about doing him dirty as the kids say.
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Remember the hubub when folks at HUD spent 31k to equip a dining room on the executive floor of the agency ?
Turns out the FBI under Comey / McCabe spent 70k on a conference table….
Good riddance, both of them.
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Do you mean McCabe? I suspect he has the DOJ dead to right on wrongful termination even this news. Someone pointed out that it looks like a friendly member of Congress could hire him for a week and that would give him his service.
Only if that member of congress had a law enforcement position open. What McCabe loses out on is the early pension for certain federal LEOs. He didn’t have anything taken from him, he still gets the pension he has earned once he reaches the regular retirement age. What he didn’t manage is to sneak in under a provision that is supposed to give the door-kickers at the marshals service or the border guards who chase folks through the bush an early retirement once their body wears out. Was never meant for pencil pushers at the FBI.
Now he can still make it to early retirement. As graduate of the FBI academy, he is able to get a type II federal law enforcement commission with the national park service. He can hire on as seasonal ranger for a summer. Patrol the park roads, write some tickets for unauthorized transport of firewood etc. and get in another 6 months of federal LE service.
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DOJ saying that prosecutors are recommending criminal indictment for McCabe.
McCabe’s lawyers saying that the grand jury refused to bring back an indictment and that it is illegal for prosecutors to disregard.
More to come I’m sure …
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the manic is out of control–unable to stop tweeting regardless of the legal jeopardy
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“We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in due
course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire
process that led to Mr. McCabes termination and has rendered it
illegitimate. ” ~ Michael Bromwich, McCabe’s lawyer.
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[link=https://www.lawfareblog.com/mystery-mccabe-grand-jury]Lawfare[/link]: No media organization has reported that this is what happened Thursday, but something clearly happened when the grand jury metand that something wasnt the McCabe indictment that everyone was expecting.
Normally, when the Justice Department informs a criminal target that it is moving ahead with charges, particularly when the target is a high-profile one, the indictment follows immediately. Yet in this case, no indictment materialized. And that wasnt because the grand jury didnt meet.
[link=https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1172556617021190144]Harry Litman[/link]: A Grand Jurys refusal to return an indictment is something that happens maybe once every five years in a given office. If it occurred here, given the magnitude and visibility of the McCabe case, it is a stunning and humiliating rebuke for overreaching and playing politics.
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[link=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/14/doj-drops-case-against-former-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-115251]https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/14/doj-drops-case-against-former-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-115251[/link]
It took long, long time and a spotlight shining on Barr and the DOJ to make it happen but …
[b]DOJ drops probe into former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe[/b]
The confirmation of a formal end to the criminal investigation into McCabe’s conduct came amid a highly public tug-of-war between Trump and the Justice Department over the handling of cases and investigations he has taken a keen interest in. The development also comes just one day after [link=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/13/william-barr-trump-tweet-115028]an extraordinary interview[/link] in which Attorney General Bill Barr openly rebuked the president for his frequent attacks on the work of federal prosecutors.
The timing of Friday’s letter to McCabe’s lawyers may have been driven by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a non-profit watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics Washington. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, who is handling the FOIA case, had [link=https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/14/andrew-mccabe-prosecution-uncertainty-071028]publicly pressed prosecutors[/link] to make a final decision about the McCabe prosecution and had set a deadline Friday for them to disclose previously-secret records related to the FOIA litigation.
[link=https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000170-451e-d3ac-abff-edbf1a1c0000]The newly-disclosed files[/link] showed that in private, Walton was even more stern with prosecutors, warning them that Trump’s complaints about McCabe would taint any decision they made.
Walton: “The public is listening to what’s going on, and [b]I don’t think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted … I just think it’s a banana republic when we go down that road,” Walton told government lawyers behind closed doors in September. “I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undo inappropriate pressure being brought to bear … It’s just, it’s very disturbing that we’re in the mess that we’re in in that regard.[/b]-
I always thought the criminal probe was a stretch. He was clearly a ‘bad cop’, I didn’t see anything that suggested ‘going to prison’ level bad.
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[b]Judge Denies U.S. Bid to Dismiss Andrew McCabe Suit[/b][/h1]
A federal judge in Washington allowed former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabes lawsuit challenging his dismissal to move forward, [link=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-24/judge-denies-u-s-government-bid-to-dismiss-andrew-mccabe-suit]Bloomberg[/link] reports.
McCabe has alleged that he was unlawfully demoted and fired because of his political affiliations.-
McCabe declines to appear for Senate testimony next week. Says he can’t do so safely after GOP Senators test positive for Covid.
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He was fired by recommendation of the career staff at the FBIs internal disciplinary unit. It doesn’t get any less political than that. Keeping him for another 24hrs and allowing him to walk away with millions in pension benefit would make a mockery out of the agencies disciplinary process.
There is just stuff you can’t do if you work at the FBI. Lying is pretty high on that list.
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Ill go a step further.
McCabe will file a challenge saying that the Presidents public comments against him amounted to undue influence on the investigation, the decision to recommend firing, and the firing itself.
And he will win not just the pension he lost but damages too.
[b]Fired FBI official Andrew McCabe wins retirement benefits, legal fees, and back pay[/b]
[link=https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/10396…suit-trump-fbi]https://www.npr.org/2021/…10396…suit-trump-fbi[/link]
The settlement talks intensified only after U.S. District Judge Randy Moss gave McCabe’s lawyers a green light to seek documents and testimony from former and current officials involved in the firing, including then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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He said the IG report was used by senior Justice Department officials as a “pretext” to dismiss him. McCabe opened investigations into Trump after the former president fired then-FBI Director James Comey in the spring of 2017.
The Justice Department did not admit wrongdoing or apologize to McCabe in the court filing late Thursday, but one part of the document said, “the Parties agree that Executive Branch officials outside the Department of Justice and its components should not comment publicly on ongoing career civil service employee disciplinary matters … so as not to create any appearance of improper political influence.”
The settlement follows mediation between McCabe and the DOJ this summer. The deal will restore McCabe’s full retirement package, purge his personnel file, allow for the return of his FBI badge, and cover fees for his attorneys at the Arnold & Porter law firm.
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Isnt it terrible that all of Andrew McCabes benefits, pensions, salary, etc., were just fully reinstated by the Justice Department? This is yet another mockery to our Country. Among other things, McCabes wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and the Democrats while Crooked Hillary was under investigation, which was quickly dropped, of course.
What a bad chapter this has been for the once storied FBII hate to see it happening, so many GREAT people work there.” ~ Statement by Donad Trump
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I really hate to agree with Donald Trump. But this settlement is the swamp taking care of one of their own.
Funny that given your incessant posting in the police thread, you are here throwing your support behind a liar who was fired for lying.
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