Attorney General Jeff Sessions Fires Andrew McCabe

 

From the Washington Post:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.

Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., noting that both the Justice Department Inspector General and the FBI office that handles discipline had found “that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”

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  1. harrisventures Inactive
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    I thought this post was about Andrew McCabe getting fired for being less than truthful.

    What in the world does Gary’s, or Fred’s, or anyone else’s campaign contributions, or various political positions, have to do with the subject at hand?

    Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue. Most of the later posts have nothing to do with the issue.

    Here are a couple of updates:

    McCabe just made life tough for Comey and the special counsel

    The timing for Comey could not be worse. He already has started selling tickets, for roughly $100 each, to attend the tour for his forthcoming book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.” If he gave McCabe the green light for his “interaction,” the title could prove embarrassingly ironic.

    If this was determined to be a leak with his approval, Comey likely would be labeled not just a leaker but a liar. Worse, his second-in-command just lost his pension after more than 20 years with the bureau, while Comey is about to cash in on a book and publicity tour potentially worth millions.

     

    The FBI’s Blood Feud: “This Is Going To Get A Lot Uglier Before It’s Over”

    Start with the obligation of FBI agents to tell the truth. Mr. Sessions’s statement was a straightforward explanation that he fired Mr. McCabe for a serious violation of duty.

    The Justice Department’s Inspector General has been examining the department’s handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server – a probe demanded by Democrats on grounds that former FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 intervention cost her the election. The IG uncovered “allegations of misconduct” by Mr. McCabe, Mr. Sessions’s statement said, which it forwarded to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that is composed of career officials.

    Mr. Sessions added that both the IG and OPR reports “concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor—including under oath—on multiple conclusions. The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR proposal stated, ‘all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.’”

    Ergo, Mr. McCabe had to be fired.

     

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  2. Basil Fawlty Member
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    harrisventures (View Comment):
    Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue.

    Not a bad percentage for Ricochet.

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  3. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    Gumby Mark (View Comment):

    EDISONPARKS (View Comment):

    Gumby Mark (View Comment):

    Ontheleftcoast (View Comment):

    Fred Cole (View Comment):
    Yeah. Not only did Gary give a ton of money to Hillary and other Democrats, but Hillary also came to Gary’s wedding, for crying out loud.

    No wait. I’m thinking of Donald Trump.

    It’s all in how you frame it, isn’t it? Being a mere citizen is qualitatively different from being a big player in, say, NYC property development. People like that understand that they have to make nice with people who can help them and who can hurt them. In NYC, the people who get made nice to, contributed to, and invited to your big events tend to be Democrat politicians (and, to varying degrees depending on how big a shot the prospective made nice to person is, mobbed up union bosses, back scratching and outright crooked pols and non-elected patronage bosses, bureaucrats who can slow roll permit approval and the like. In one party (D) boroughs, cities and/or states, giving to (R)s doesn’t buy you nearly as much.

    That could signify “my primary priority is my business” or it could signify “I’m really a Democrat.”

    Trump was a Democrat during the Clinton years. In fact, it’s an indication of how much the Democratic Party has changed that Trump could have run on Clinton’s ’96 platform – he was in sync with everything except trade.

    Trump was a rent seeking Democrat in an overwhelmingly (D) City/State. He had to do what he had to do in order to succeed/survive in the business he was in. (ie: Pay the man …. grease the skids)

    Sorry, I don’t buy the “Trump was a secret conservative all those years” fable.

    He’s a inflationist developer that is forced to work with “the system”. He’s never been idealogical about many things.

    On the other hand, HRC’s campaign slogan was “I’m with her,” while Trump’s was “Make America Great Again.” Why Hillary thought it might work to be using a slogan even a modern day homecoming queen wouldn’t use, I don’t know.

    And if Trump the non-idealogue continues to keep the stock market skyrocketing, continues to end  weird “Paris Accord” agreements,  gets some reputation points for the tax cuts, and puts an infra structure deal in place, I won’t mind his being that way at all. (With added points for the active role he has taken with regards to eliminating sex trafficking.)

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  4. RufusRJones Member
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    CarolJoy (View Comment):

    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    Gumby Mark (View Comment):

    EDISONPARKS (View Comment):

    Gumby Mark (View Comment):

    Ontheleftcoast (View Comment):

    Fred Cole (View Comment):
    Yeah. Not only did Gary give a ton of money to Hillary and other Democrats, but Hillary also came to Gary’s wedding, for crying out loud.

    No wait. I’m thinking of Donald Trump.

    It’s all in how you frame it, isn’t it? Being a mere citizen is qualitatively different from being a big player in, say, NYC property development. People like that understand that they have to make nice with people who can help them and who can hurt them. In NYC, the people who get made nice to, contributed to, and invited to your big events tend to be Democrat politicians (and, to varying degrees depending on how big a shot the prospective made nice to person is, mobbed up union bosses, back scratching and outright crooked pols and non-elected patronage bosses, bureaucrats who can slow roll permit approval and the like. In one party (D) boroughs, cities and/or states, giving to (R)s doesn’t buy you nearly as much.

    That could signify “my primary priority is my business” or it could signify “I’m really a Democrat.”

    Trump was a Democrat during the Clinton years. In fact, it’s an indication of how much the Democratic Party has changed that Trump could have run on Clinton’s ’96 platform – he was in sync with everything except trade.

    Trump was a rent seeking Democrat in an overwhelmingly (D) City/State. He had to do what he had to do in order to succeed/survive in the business he was in. (ie: Pay the man …. grease the skids)

    Sorry, I don’t buy the “Trump was a secret conservative all those years” fable.

    He’s a inflationist developer that is forced to work with “the system”. He’s never been idealogical about many things.

    On the other hand, HRC’s campaign slogan was “I’m with her,” while Trump’s was “Make America Great Again.” Why Hillary thought that using a slogan even a modern day homecoming queen wouldn’t use, I don’t know.

    And if Trump the non-idealogue continues to keep the stock market skyrocketing, continues to end weird “Paris Accord” agreements, gets some reputation points for the tax cuts, and puts an infra structure deal in place, I won’t mind his being that way at all. (With added points for the active role he has taken with regards to sex trafficking.)

    Exactly. What I mean is, where he comes from intellectually –where he literally has to come from—isn’t a big asset for having a conservative point of view at all. “Debt guy” “Low interest rate guy.” He’s not some productivity genius outside of constructing buildings. He’s not a genius manager or entrepreneur. He knows jack about civics. He obviously lacks civic experience. He’s good at other stuff, though.

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  5. EDISONPARKS Member
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    harrisventures (View Comment):
    I thought this post was about Andrew McCabe getting fired for being less than truthful.

    What in the world does Gary’s, or Fred’s, or anyone else’s campaign contributions, or various political positions, have to do with the subject at hand?

    Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue. Most of the later posts have nothing to do with the issue.

    Here are a couple of updates:

    McCabe just made life tough for Comey and the special counsel

    The timing for Comey could not be worse. He already has started selling tickets, for roughly $100 each, to attend the tour for his forthcoming book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.” If he gave McCabe the green light for his “interaction,” the title could prove embarrassingly ironic.

    If this was determined to be a leak with his approval, Comey likely would be labeled not just a leaker but a liar. Worse, his second-in-command just lost his pension after more than 20 years with the bureau, while Comey is about to cash in on a book and publicity tour potentially worth millions.

    The FBI’s Blood Feud: “This Is Going To Get A Lot Uglier Before It’s Over”

    Start with the obligation of FBI agents to tell the truth. Mr. Sessions’s statement was a straightforward explanation that he fired Mr. McCabe for a serious violation of duty.

    The Justice Department’s Inspector General has been examining the department’s handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server – a probe demanded by Democrats on grounds that former FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 intervention cost her the election. The IG uncovered “allegations of misconduct” by Mr. McCabe, Mr. Sessions’s statement said, which it forwarded to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that is composed of career officials.

    Mr. Sessions added that both the IG and OPR reports “concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor—including under oath—on multiple conclusions. The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR proposal stated, ‘all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.’”

    Ergo, Mr. McCabe had to be fired.

    Many posts lose their way to post Gary drift.

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  6. Joe P Member
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    Basil Fawlty (View Comment):

    harrisventures (View Comment):
    Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue.

    Not a bad percentage for Ricochet.

    Maybe, but usually the digressions are more interesting than playing “Gary is a Democrat” as an ad hominem to dismiss the relevant parts of criticism of McCabe’s firing.

    Plus, every “Gary is a Democrat” comment give both him and Fred ample opportunity to ignore actual responses to their actual arguments about the actual topic. Specifically that their argument is absurd because it presumes either that

    A. McCabe didn’t really do anything wrong, OR

    B. There is some point in time before McCabe is entitled to full retirement that he becomes entitled to full retirement.

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  7. Gary Robbins Member
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    Joe P (View Comment):

    Basil Fawlty (View Comment):

    harrisventures (View Comment):
    Maybe only 50 – 60% of the posts address the issue.

    Not a bad percentage for Ricochet.

    Maybe, but usually the digressions are more interesting than playing “Gary is a Democrat” as an ad hominem to dismiss the relevant parts of criticism of McCabe’s firing.

    Plus, every “Gary is a Democrat” comment give both him and Fred ample opportunity to ignore actual responses to their actual arguments about the actual topic. Specifically that their argument is absurd because it presumes either that

    A. McCabe didn’t really do anything wrong, OR

    B. There is some point in time before McCabe is entitled to full retirement that he becomes entitled to full retirement.

    I am tired of addressing the “Gary is a Democrat” meme.  I filed an OP on Marital Advice from a Divorce Lawyer.

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  8. Mike-K Member
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    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    I am a Reagan Republican.

    And yet you donate to Hillary Clinton, who is the worst person to get close to the presidency since Aaron Burr.

    I suppose Bill Kristol could recite a similar litany.

    I would encourage you to read two books. One is Pat Buchanan’s “Nixon’s White House Wars” in which he mentions Trump. If only Nixon had had Trump’s sense of humor and his self confidence.

    The other is Jim Webb’s “Born Fighting,” which almost predicts the Trump presidency although it was published in 2004.

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