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Attorney General Jeff Sessions Fires Andrew McCabe
From the Washington Post:
Published in PoliticsAttorney 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.”
The more I think about it, the less the pension matters. This amount, that amount, arcane rules and regulations that let government employees retire at 50, early retirement, etc., etc.
What matters to me, is that malefactors be held to account. For someone like McCabe, or Comey, the loss of prestige and the stigma of being terminated may be more painful than losing some portion of a pension.
This is the first instance I can recall where there is an actual consequence for a bad actor in Government. That Lois Lerner was allowed to face no penalty of consequence and just allowed to fade into retirement is the real scandal.
Not just being allowed to keep her pension, but no criminal penalties for subjecting conservative organizations from being able to fully participate in the democratic process of this nation.
I’d like to see McCabe face criminal prosecution. As well as Clapper, Brennan, Clinton, and oh yes, Obama.
I know, not likely, but a man has to dream…
Doesn’t he realize lying to the FBI is a crime?
It is such a same that he threw all of that away to kowtow to HillaryClinton. Sad.
Only for the “little people” (and anyone connected to the Trump administration).
Regarding McCabe’s statement, the lengthy one that Fred quoted…
Before I read it, can anyone tell me if McCabe issued it while under oath. Because, you know, that ought to mean something. The guy was an assistant FBI Director, after all.
I’m certain there are no lies, though there might be a lack of candor.
LOLing out loud. ;)
It’s all part of the vast Trump-wing conspiracy.
Liberal Ruth Marcus had a good point on this issue. The report that was issued has not been released to the public yet. We may all (me included) be jumping the gun. Just saying.
Who is “conservative” anymore? Karl rove dreamed up Medicare Part D to defeat Kerry so they could “fix” Iraq.
Trump got elected because we have a regressive, unfair economy and cultural marxism.
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The PA 18 race is a weird race to discuss because neither candidate was representative of their party, or a particularly exemplary candidate. Plus there is the fact that the entire area is being re-districted such that the election will be re-done in November.
Trump was the first President to be pro-gay marriage on the day of his inauguration. His wife has major influence on his thinking. He was the friend of the Clintons and they asked him to run. Unfortunately, at times he says things that get major press announcing his faux pas. Some of us are willing to overlook it as it comes with a tax cut, and with a stop to rampant immigration that was not only taking away our jobs but subjecting us to abuse if we so much as mis-pronounced a hispanic’s name. I also hope that Trump keeps us from the insane “free trade” treaties that take away our sovereignty.
When I was growing up, among my many relatives, there was a bombastic, loud mouthed uncle, and a soft spoken dignified one. The latter was a ballroom dancer, a deacon in his church and he could light up a room with his entrance to it. He also attempted to molest me when I was eleven. This taught me a great deal about the out ward frame of a person’s character. I’ll take a Pres that works for me rather than the Presidential types that have a nice frame but sell us out.
Be sure to vote for Evan McMullan. Zzzz….
But many in Congress won’t be running again. They are seeing what is happening, and the idea of being held accountable and living inside an orange jump suit is making many nervous.
I also kept wondering how many boxes of Depends the Clintons went out and bought yesterday.
Regarding his statement, he left so much out. Including but not limited to the following:
He withheld evidence from the search of Huma Abedin’s computer and house for three weeks (evidence tampering). Why?
He broke FBI rules and regulations for criminal investigations in order to soften the Clinton email investigation and the classified document illegal destruction, disclosure case, which is much bigger than any media has yet reported. That case is so significant that if there weren’t so many other major crimes committed by Obama staffers, the server case could have been one of the biggest scandal in our country’s history.
I wish the above were my writing, but it comes from retired FBI man, Gary diLaura. His main thrust now is “Just what does McCabe know and who will he take down with him?” and the whole piece can be read at:
https://artvoice.com/2018/03/16/mccabe-know-burn
“Tillerson would be at or near the bottom of the list of secretaries of state, not just in the post-Second World War world but in the record of US secretaries of state,” says Paul Musgrave, a scholar of US foreign policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “With, of course, Hillary Rodham Clinton being the worst of all secretaries”.
Not sure I care a hell of a lot about what Vox thinks. Especially if you consider some of the huge mistakes made by SecStates in decades prior. It’s an idiotic statement on its face.
Trump did pretty well with women in the last race, much better than anticipated, even after all the controversies were in relatively full swing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2016/11/10/trump-election-white-women-sexism-racism/93611984/
Your horrorshow of “driving women, suburban, and young voters into the Democrat’s arms” sounds hysterical. Half the country in those groups is already there, regardless of the GOP candidate.
You know what else drives people into Democrats’ arms? Money, which you said you willingly gave to the Clinton campaign.
Impressive.
We shall see. So far, women, suburban and young voters have flipped the following seats:
November: Virginia, Oklahoma, New York and Pennsylvania.
December: Alabama Senate.
January: Wisconsin State Senate LD-10.
February: Florida House LD-72.
March: Pennsylvania CD-18.
I have an open $10 bet that we will lose the House in 2018. Do you want to join two of our fellow Ricochetti to bet on that?
I’m confident the Clintons have more than enough money and influence to stave off any serious consequences.
As much as I’d like to join in, I’m holding my applause. This isn’t a list of facts. It’s a list of assertions and assumptions. I suspect he’s guilty or at least complicit in some of these bad acts but his termination had to do with being untruthful about leaks. There may be more to come.
As for the threat from McCabe, it only makes sense if he thinks he has information damaging to the administration. Why make a threat that would implicate anyone from the Obama administration? They have no power, at least regarding criminal investigations and court cases. No doubt Vernon Jordan could scare up a nice sinecure. That’s about it.
If he had anything seriously damaging, it would have come out over a year ago when this gang of criminals was desperately trying for a soft coup.
All that’s left now is innuendo, and I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot of that.
Nope, mostly self-interested. We’re all paying lower taxes now. And I honestly like the president.
The irony here is amazing. A couple of members of Congress have offered to hire McCabe for at least one day so that he will fully qualify for his federal pension. Andrew McCabe turns 50 tomorrow. Since Sessions fired him, he doesn’t qualify for early retirement, however it is argued that if he is hired by a member of congress for even one day, he will then be a federal employee as of his 50th birthday, allowing him to fully retire.
From the article: “It’s not immediately clear if getting fired from the FBI on a Friday and going to work on Capitol Hill on a Monday would solve McCabe’s problems for certain, though at least one former federal official with knowledge of retirement rules says it probably would.”
The irony.
The firing feels like a “gotcha” move by the Trump Administration. Being hired for one day feels like a “gotcha” move by members of Congress.
Karma?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/17/andrew-mccabe-was-just-offered-a-job-by-a-congressman-so-he-can-get-his-full-retirement-and-it-just-might-work/?utm_term=.59cf76eead6d
Trump’s tweet shows why the firing of McCabe is incredibly suspicious.
“President Trump, never able to conceal his vindictiveness and incapable of understanding what evidence might be used against him, gleefully tweeted, ‘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!'”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/03/17/mccabes-firing-shows-yet-again-how-readily-trump-incriminates-himself/?utm_term=.74533267056d
I’m guessing anyone who can run with “protecting government employees’ pensions” on their record isn’t in a district where they have to worry about their chances for being reelected anyway.
My daughter is an FBI agent and will soon have 20 years and can retire. She thinks she will continue until 57 which is mandatory retirement age according to her understanding.
Law enforcement officers can retire early. In exchange, they are subject to early mandatory retirement.
Yeah, when the FBI did interviews with suspects, two agents had to be present and they didn’t record it. Then after the interview, both agents would write it up.
That policy wasn’t changed until 2014.
This could get interesting. I’ll check the stories tomorrow. Karma?
[Law professor Jonathan]Turley noted, “This could easily spin further out of control. There was one line in the case statement last night that I immediately flagged. Because he said that he had authority to do this and he conferred with the director—the director at the time was James Comey.” Turley continued: “Now, the problem there is that James Comey said under oath that he never leaked information and never approved a leak. So, if the Inspector General believes this was a leak to the media, it raises serious questions about Comey’s previous testimony and could get him into serious trouble.”
That would be lovely.
Don’t we already know that Comey leaked his memos to the law professor. As I wrote in a post, Trump tried to take the high road with O and C after the election. His reward has been an attempt at a soft coup supported by O and C. It’s past time to hammer them and their colluders.