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3/16/2018

BREAKING: Andrew McCabe Fired

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:14 pm



The Washington Post is breaking the news right now:

FBI’s Andrew McCabe is fired just before retiring. Former deputy director became lightning rod for Clinton email and Russia probes.

McCabe, who had stepped down from his post earlier this year but remained an FBI employee, had been accused by the Justice Department’s inspector general of authorizing the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and misleading investigators when asked about it.

McCabe had been a lightning rod in the political battles surrounding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russian agents to interfere in the 2016 presidential race.

He would have been eligible for full benefits on Sunday, in two days.

No sooner does RedState call for this to happen, than it happens.

Behold the power of RedState!!

UPDATE: Hey, remember this?

[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]

104 Responses to “BREAKING: Andrew McCabe Fired”

  1. Ding.

    Patterico (115b1f)

  2. I’ll repeat this here:

    While I think that McCabe needs to answer for his abuse of power, and might lose that pension anyway, this is just petty in the extreme. Tomorrow he would have received an EARNED pension. Today he gets nothing. It’s just ugly, cruel and stupid and does not reflect well on the GOP.

    There are millions of unemployed people out there who will feel this in their gut. Yeah, it plays to the chorus, but there’s muttering down here in the band.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  3. I’ll shed no tears when Trump fires Sessions.

    nk (9651fb)

  4. Need more details, but from what I read, the information he authorized sharing was detrimental to Clinton (confirming that the Clinton Foundation was still under investigation).

    Dave (445e97)

  5. And what Kevin said.

    nk (9651fb)

  6. Doesn’t matter, ConDave. But I suspect even you know that.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  7. He did the right thing for once, of course CNN and MSNBC
    are in mccabes corner.

    narciso (d1f714)

  8. He’ll get at least some of his pension, more likely most of it. Perhaps Terry McCauliffe will take care of any shortfall.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  9. I DO think that McCabe should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and, IF FOUND GUILTY, his pension and benefits might be affected. But I do NOT like a bureaucrat assigning guilt and punishment of this magnitude. This is an administrative bill of attainder.

    This is a matter for a court and the DoJ has it totally in their power to prosecute, To do things this way is, itself, an abuse.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  10. From what I’ve read, FBI officials recommended his firing, in prep for release of the IG report.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  11. I expect his no-work/no-show job at the Clinton Foundation will carry him thorough, but this is Rule of Man, not Rule of Law.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  12. According to shipwreckedcrew, there’s no partial vesting of FBI pensions before 25 years of service or age 50 and 20 years of service.

    nk (9651fb)

  13. He will get his pension. If they’re foolish enough to try to cut it, he’ll sue, which will open up a lot of discovery doors…

    Coasta (51fdf0)

  14. What a bunch of balderdash, he was actively suppressing the investigation, and he had page and strzok prespin the story, hoping they could
    Hold out till election day.

    narciso (d1f714)

  15. This is a matter for a court and the DoJ has it totally in their power to prosecute, To do things this way is, itself, an abuse.

    The Office of Professional Responsibility only investigates non-criminal ethics problems. Of course it’s possible there is some other, independent criminal investigation (although in that case you’d think the non-criminal investigation would be put on hold), but this firing has nothing to do with any alleged or suspected crime.

    Dave (445e97)

  16. Good.

    NJRob (9736c6)

  17. Here is Session’s statement. Appears McCabe lied under oath, or as more politely put in the release, “lacked candor.” You know, the stuff that gets regular Joes and Josephine’s charged with a federal crime for lying.

    “After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).

    The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor including under oath on multiple occasions.

    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.”

    Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”

    http://abc11.com/politics/sessions-fires-former-fbi-deputy-director-mccabe/3225952/

    pete (a65bac)

  18. March 15, 2018
    Will Sessions Fire McCabe’s Ass?

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/374354.php

    BuDuh (fc15db)

  19. If he indeed violated the rules, and was not treated differently for political reasons, then he deserves the prescribed consequences.

    Dave (445e97)

  20. The Sessions statement charges him with “lack of candor”in his responses to investigators. I take that to mean he didn’t lie, but did not tell “the whole truth”: a careful editing of answers. So it depends on what he did not tell investigators, and unless there are clear standards in place as to what “lack of candor” is (I have no idea if there are), it’s a rather subjective charge. Because at this stage we don’t know what McCabe edited out of his answers and how important those omissions were.

    One thing is clear: anyone who wants to see this as an example of Trump’s petty vindictive behavior pattern will see it as such.

    Kishnevi (1b8c69)

  21. My understanding is he gets about 98% of his pension as opposed to 100%. He’s hardly left out in the cold. I saw E-7’s and E-8’s get bounced from the Army with 18-19 years in for repeat substance abuse violations. They were given the opportunity to rehab and relapsed while in the program.

    If what I initially heard is wrong and McCabe does end up with nothing, it’s not the injustice some are making it out to be. Regular folks would be (and are) in jail for doing a miniscule portion of what he did. He played a political game in what was supposed to be a non-political position and lost. Oh well.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  22. There are millions of unemployed people out there who will feel this in their gut. Yeah, it plays to the chorus, but there’s muttering down here in the band.

    Kevin M (752a26) — 3/16/2018 @ 7:19 pm

    He can take his Billy Squier pension in loneliness and alcohol IDGAF. The band can take it up with their union.

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  23. @2. While I think that McCabe needs to answer for his abuse of power, and might lose that pension anyway, this is just petty in the extreme.

    Friday evening, 10 PM. EDT, after regular business hours: Night Of The Small Hands

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  24. Yes, Patterico, I suspect the orange-skinned pansy got his cockholster Sessions to draw it out as long as possible and dash McCabe on the rocks at the last minute.

    nk (9651fb)

  25. McCabe’s reply via ABC:
    “For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to this country. Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us. The President’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us.”

    “No more,” McCabe said.”

    Later in his statement, McCabe accused the president of driving an effort to destroy his reputation and hurt special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation

    “Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President,” the statement said.

    “The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens. Thursday’s comments from the White House are just the latest example of this,” McCabe said.

    “This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally,’ McCabe’s statement continued. “It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-deputy-director-fired-days-retirement-kick/story?id=53805919

    pete (a65bac)

  26. The sobbing over McCabe’s pension is tone deafness on steroids. He worked all of 21 years for the bureau, and was slated to get a 6 figure kiss in the mail for life starting at age 50. Even if he did nothing wrong, it is lavish beyond belief. But, he apparently did wrong, at the very least being the source of leaks. If you play that nasty game, you had better be willing to pay the price.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  27. Yes and if they shaped the narrative for the better part of two years, as they imported dezinforma into official govt estimates and as a basis for a visa warrant, they couldn’t have obtained otherwise.

    narciso (d1f714)

  28. These government bureaucrats usually slowwalk this sort of crap until it just goes away. It’s satisfying to see one of them get the shaft just like they like to give it to the average citizen. They need to prosecute Lois Lerner and a host of others.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  29. @22. In another part of his reply, ABC reported: “After McCabe was questioned by investigators, he said he realized he needed to clarify some of his responses, so he “proactively reached out to those people to ensure that they clearly understood what my position was.” He would not offer any further details.”

    Seems like McCabe was doing a lot of “remembering” as the investigation continued. I don’t believe the FBI allows those it questions under oath the same repeated opportunities to amend their answers. Bet Michael Flynn or the George P. wish they would have been allowed to proactively reach out and try to supplement their answers.

    pete (a65bac)

  30. There is a certain ‘lack of candor’ in abc’s report, as in most everything else they do.

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me (God, if you are a believer.) I expect testifying to investigators carries some variation of this. I know military investigations do. I was appointed an investigating officer once, which was not something I would have volunteered for, but that’s how some Article 32 investigations are done.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  32. The difference between lying and lacking candor is the same as between gross negligence and extreme carelessness.

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  33. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work.”

    Pot, meet kettle. The Specisl Counsel is doing important work but the OIG is tainted. Got it, McCabe. A federal worker’s sense of entitlement on full display.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  34. Yes, Patterico, I suspect the orange-skinned pansy got his cockholster Sessions to draw it out as long as possible and dash McCabe on the rocks at the last minute.

    That, or Spanky told Sessions that either he or McCabe would be fired by midnight, and asked Sessions to decide which it would be.

    That would be consistent with the WH statement that it was Sessions’ decision, right?

    Dave (445e97)

  35. F him, Mueller, Comey, Strzok, his text-happy girlfriend, all of these clowns.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  36. I can’t wait till Stormy’s lawyer deposes Trump. Will he show candor about what meaning of “sex” is?

    nk (9651fb)

  37. 28.The sobbing over McCabe’s pension is tone deafness on steroids. He worked all of 21 years for the bureau, and was slated to get a 6 figure kiss in the mail for life starting at age 50. Even if he did nothing wrong, it is lavish beyond belief

    Likely there’s private sector folks who lost savings/pensions at Enron and assorted firms through economic ups and down over the years– who did nothing suspect- who’d agree w/you.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  38. 36… your fevered dreams are amusing, ConDave. They are a dirty, schiffcaked window into your soul.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  39. F him, Mueller, Comey, Strzok, his text-happy girlfriend, all of these clowns.
    Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 3/16/2018 @ 7:58 pm

    +1

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  40. Disco mixing up the issue, there is criminal malpractice and I don’t this one leak to devlin Barrett covers it all. How many other outlets was he in touch with, its like with the whole fusion brouhaha.

    narciso (d1f714)

  41. 36… your fevered dreams are amusing, ConDave. They are a dirty, schiffcaked window into your soul.

    … says the stalker who posts deranged sexual fantasies about me multiple times a day …

    Dave (445e97)

  42. @41. Only today do some reasons appear why Federal Judge Contreras was suddenly recused from the Flynn case just days after taking Flynn’s plea. It appears that a review of Strzok’s e-mails revealed a personal relationship between the two, something that Page-Strozk talked about covering up in said texts. http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/16/revealed-peter-strzok-had-personal-relationship-with-recused-judge-in-michael-flynn-case/

    pete (a65bac)

  43. something that Page-Strozk talked about covering up in said texts.

    They were having an affair and it’s pretty obvious they were talking about covering for THAT (i.e. so that the two of them wouldn’t be a lone couple, but rather a larger group from the office).

    Dave (445e97)

  44. @42. You miss what RV infers. There will simply be those unsympathetic to any hassles he’ll face to recoup what’s been denied. Besides, it stinks of pettiness. Small palm prints all over it. Bad form to fire a guy on a Friday at 10 PM hours before he qualified for bennies.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  45. @45. That’s one way of looking at. Of course, the authors of the article see if differently.

    n the messages, Page and Strzok, who are rumored to have been engaged in an illicit romantic affair, discussed Strzok’s personal friendship with Contreras and how to leverage that relationship in ongoing counterintelligence matters.

    “Rudy is on the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]!” Page excitedly texted Strzok on July 25, 2016. “Did you know that? Just appointed two months ago.”

    “I did,” Strzok responded. “I need to get together with him.”

    “[He] said he’d gotten on a month or two ago at a graduation party we were both at.”

    Contreras was appointed to the top surveillance court on May 19, 2016, federal records show.

    The pair even schemed about how to set up a cocktail or dinner party just so Contreras, Strzok, and Page could speak without arousing suspicion that they were colluding. Strzok expressed concern that a one-on-one meeting between the two men might require Contreras’ recusal from matters in which Strzok was involved.

    “[REDACTED] suggested a social setting with others would probably be better than a one on one meeting,” Strzok told Page. “I’m sorry, I’m just going to have to invite you to that cocktail party.”

    “Have to come up with some other work people cover for action,” Strzok added.

    “Why more?” Page responded. “Six is a perfectly fine dinner party.”

    It is not known whether the proposed party happened as planned

    pete (a65bac)

  46. McCabe lied under oath right under dirty fbi slutboy Robert Mueller’s nose… and Robert Mueller looked the other way

    That’s the takeaway here

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  47. My guess is, he’ll sue for his pension, it’ll go through an arbitration panel of some kind comprised of future pension recipients and he’ll get his so richly deserved kiss in the mail. So, all of you decrying the “bad form” of it all can dry your eyes.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  48. Basically but they followed comeys lead from a little over 14 years, when Mueller was the wingman.

    narciso (d1f714)

  49. DCSCA,

    Count me as unsympathetic. Completely unsympathetic. He leaked information in an effort to affect a national election and damage a sitting President. If it doesn’t meet the Constitutional definition of treason, it certainly meets the popular understanding. I’m hoping to see him dragged through the mud up until the day he does his perp walk.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  50. Was dirty Lisa planning to put out for the whole dinner party

    Maybe you need to watch some netflix about what people do when they have affairs

    Hint they like to cuddle and make sexy

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  51. Hey, fella, what you choose to do with poultry is your bidness, ConDave. What I post comes no where near your propensity for propagating vitriol against the Trump family.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  52. The full statement is on Vox, link here. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/16/17132418/andrew-mccabe-statement

    I am amused by this line by him: “To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the misty fo (sic) chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair.” Got to put that on the checklist when accused of lying “I was distracted by chaotic events.”

    pete (a65bac)

  53. You know, there are many general officers who were found to have had affairs with subordinates or some other misconduct during the last few years of their service. They ended up retired at the last rank where they “served honorably” and lost out on credit for anything past that. It may have cost some their retirement entirely. I wonder what the last date McCabe served honorably was.

    Play political games, suffer the consequences. He’s one of the ones who damaged the FBI’s reputation, not those trying to hold them to account.

    Stashiu3 (466cdf)

  54. “Look for a legal challenge, a book deal, and being officially placed on the CNN payroll after years of illegal leaks to the Fake News network.

    “On Wednesday, the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that McCabe should be fired as a result of claims in the DOJ watchdog report that he misled investigators about his decision to authorize FBI officials to speak to the media about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation,” CNN reported.

    Sessions has solid ground to fire him.

    “After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility,” Sessions said in a press release.

    “The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”

    Under McCabe’s former boss, Jim Comey, the FBI aided and abetted Missus Clinton’s criminal neglect of national security by making state secrets available to any hacker who could get into her unsecured private server.

    The swamp is real, the media’s attempts to cover-up these crimes is pathetic.

    For example, NBC News reported, “When McCabe’s wife, Jill, ran for the state Senate in Virginia in 2015, she accepted a donation from a political action committee controlled by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a friend and supporter of Hillary Clinton’s — and that became the basis for a series of Twitter attacks from Trump.”

    It quoted a Trump tweet — “Problem is that the acting head of the FBI and the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!”

    The NBC said Trump was “erroneously claiming that McCabe had a role in facilitating the contribution.”

    How does NBC know he had no role in that $700,000 payout to Mrs. McCabe? I want proof from NBC that McCabe was clean.

    Besides, like Caesar’s wife, an FBI agent must be above the appearance of suspicion.

    The FBI’s in-house investigation found McCabe does not deserve a pension.

    Sessions had no choice but to fire the crooked, lying, sneaky McCabe.

    Maybe Hillary can arrange another $700,000 payout to tide him over.”

    http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/03/mccabe-fired.html

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  55. wow what a waste of 20 years

    oh my goodness you made some bad choices there didn’t you Andy 🙁

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  56. Hopefully, Comey is next in the crosshairs. He also leaked, but didn’t lie about it. However, it’s alleged he leaked classified info to his buddy at Columbia to get it in the NYT. The buddy is now his lawyer. What a slime.

    Comey had nothing but effusive praise for McCabe weeks ago. The swamp takes care of its own. Though Comey can’t be fired, he can be prosecuted. I suppose some would think that “petty”. If that’s you, I’m sure Kristian Saucier would lend a sympathetic ear.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  57. I can’t wait till Stormy’s lawyer deposes Trump. Will he show candor about what meaning of “sex” is?

    nk (9651fb) — 3/16/2018 @ 7:59 pm

    Where does she go to get her reputation back, sixth grade?

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  58. MR. BUTTONS happy leprechauns and clover 😊

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  59. It was obvious where Trump stood when McCabe announced, by way of the Washington Post, he was retiring in March to save his pension. The deal was he would do that in exchange for no return fire from the administration. In an early morning tweet, Trump’s answer was a curt “NO DEAL”.

    Story here: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/25/popcorn-worthy-president-trump-has-rejected-mccabes-terms/

    Corky Boyd (8dfada)

  60. @34. PP, haven’t seen this much ‘kaos’ on the TeeVee since that Get Smart marathon on METV.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  61. It seems like Stzrok was handling the political actions against Trump, even planning surreptitious dinner parties to meet with sooper sekrit FISA court judge to discuss the campaign. All discussed “in Andy’s office.”

    Good grief, he should have been fired!

    The FBI is rotten. Fire everybody.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  62. Even if he did nothing wrong, it is lavish beyond belief. But, he apparently did wrong, at the very least being the source of leaks.

    Yes, it IS lavish, but that’s another matter entirely. What is here is “did he do wrong?” If it is perjury they accuse him of, charge him and let a court decide. Don’t just sign a piece of paper declaring him guilty and assessing a penalty. That’s, well, too Warsaw Bloc for words.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  63. Oh, and repeal the Patriot Act/FISC deal. If somebody wants a terrorism warrant, they can go to a federal judge.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  64. the sleazy dirty fbi happily bankrupts hundreds of people every year without any charges ever being filed

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  65. Now, Strzok, needs to go to jail for false applications for a warrant. Hopefully that kills he pension, too. But even there, I don’t want a federal official to have the unilateral power to declare someone guilty of a crime. Put him in the dock and let the whole truth come out.

    And I think that’s the real reason behind all this: there are things htye don’t want us to know, so it is all done in camera.

    Kevin M (752a26)

  66. It it had happened to holder Lerner, the lead atf executive I would agree with you.

    narciso (d1f714)

  67. “While I think that McCabe needs to answer for his abuse of power, and might lose that pension anyway, this is just petty in the extreme. Tomorrow he would have received an EARNED pension. Today he gets nothing. It’s just ugly, cruel and stupid and does not reflect well on the GOP.”

    McCabe did FAR worse than what he was actually fired for, but Sessions has, of course, RECUSED himself from, say, charging him for getting his peepo to falsify 302s in the RUSSIA!!! investigation.

    “There are millions of unemployed people out there who will feel this in their gut. Yeah, it plays to the chorus, but there’s muttering down here in the band.”

    Literally MILLIONS of people dream of serving their country honorably and polishing a resume honorably and attaining a high position honorably and screwing over their competitors honorably and bending the rules honorably and crushing interdepartmental dissension from unwashed rank-and-file rule sticklers honorably and forming a cocktail-party cabal honorably!

    Honey, I’ve got some bad news for you: Those jobs, unlike steel and aluminum production, simply aren’t coming back.

    Tellurian (a3c41a)

  68. McClod should be breaking ro

    mg (9e54f8)

  69. McClod should be breaking rock behind bars. Abuse of power should be a crime.

    mg (9e54f8)

  70. “Now, Strzok, needs to go to jail for false applications for a warrant. Hopefully that kills he pension, too. But even there, I don’t want a federal official to have the unilateral power to declare someone guilty of a crime.”

    It’s called a ‘judge’, smartypants. Stop whining. Man is the measure and judge of all laws, there are no predictably algorithmic decisions when men are involved no matter how much you want to tell yourself that. Govern yourself accordingly!

    “Put him in the dock and let the whole truth come out.”

    He’ll lie and grandstand and exaggerate and whine and otherwise make a public spectacle of himself for his inevitable book deal and cavalcade of media appearances. How about NO!

    “And I think that’s the real reason behind all this: there are things htye don’t want us to know, so it is all done in camera.”

    They’re called ‘federally protected secrets’, a concept which is very obviously over-applied in practice but definitely not worth chucking out in theory.

    Tellurian (a3c41a)

  71. @68. Hoover was a dress for success man: flats or pumps, Mr. Feet.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  72. This epic recounting of what has gone on for far too long lays it ALL out: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/

    Lock ’em all up. They deserve no less.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  73. Yes, it IS lavish, but that’s another matter entirely. What is here is “did he do wrong?” If it is perjury they accuse him of, charge him and let a court decide. Don’t just sign a piece of paper declaring him guilty and assessing a penalty. That’s, well, too Warsaw Bloc for words.

    Kevin M (752a26) — 3/16/2018 @ 10:17 pm

    Welcome to civil forfeiture 101, former Agent McCabe. I’d like to see any LEO certification stripped as well so he can’t carry a gun in DC. Unless he applies for a license like all the little people.

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  74. 75… You are a crusty old coot, ASPCA. One of these days you’re gonna break out in the Charleston, I just know it.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  75. McClod should be breaking rock behind bars. Abuse of power should be a crime.

    mg (9e54f8) — 3/16/2018 @ 10:35 pm

    In the last episode of Criminal Minds the BAU was disbanded and Joe Mantegna’s character had become a screenwriter. No, that’s still too good for McCabe.

    Speaking of McClod I wonder if Christopher Lambert gave acting lessons to Steven Segal.

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  76. Eventually, as a matter of karma, the standard of personal financial suffering for dereliction of duty and sins committed while in office will make its way back around and be applied to Donald Trump and his goofball family. Not that this will worry him, of course, nor should it – what’s one more bankruptcy, after all?

    Leviticus (96df43)

  77. Leviticus (96df43) — 3/16/2018 @ 11:28 pm

    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

    Dave (445e97)

  78. Dude. Peter Strzok is driving Miss Daisy…I mean Miss Hodgman. How long has Sweet Pete been sleeping on the couch?

    Strzok left home at the same time as Hodgman, 49, who is associate director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division, while Page was seen earlier this month at the home where she lives with husband Joseph Burrow, 40, and their children.

    Strzok was sharply dressed in a black suit with pinstripe tie and carrying a Nordstrom Christmas bag and a coffee cup while his wife wore a black dress and camel overcoat. He drove off in a silver minivan with his wife sitting in the back seat.

    But the political storm the lovers have created is huge.

    Daily Mail

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  79. I don’t know who Adam Housley is but he says McCabe threatened to take people down with him if he was fired so maybe this was a way to get him to open up about ol’ Eric and Loretta.

    Pinandpuller (868107)

  80. Pinandpuller @61.
    As a human being Stormy Daniels rates less than a used condom (you can test a used condom for DNA), but that’s the kind of sewer Trump himself is a denizen of.

    nk (9651fb)

  81. @ConDave #81 “wherever you go, there you are…” — Buckaroo Banzai

    Always remember to never forget the attribution…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  82. Housley is a Fox reporter. His twitter feed tells of how the firing was not political but aimed at lots of stuff his clique did for a long time at FBI. Sure seems believable. Those 3 people seem to be the good squad for anti-Repub ops.

    But the FBI is cool because there is no conservative man dancing around in women’s dresses there any more.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  83. Of course that was fake news from biased sources, an ex?? Oss operativr a gangster moll and a pre papadop wannabe for garrison

    narciso (d1f714)

  84. If it is perjury they accuse him of, charge him and let a court decide. Don’t just sign a piece of paper declaring him guilty and assessing a penalty. That’s, well, too Warsaw Bloc for words.

    Imagine a world where people get fired at will. Imagine really, really hard. It’s called the real world, a place so foreign to public workers it’s tantamount to the “Warsaw Bloc”. Good Lord.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  85. Next… Sanctimonious James Comeyious

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

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    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  87. Will we ever see those memos he leaked to prompt the apt of a special counsel.

    narciso (d1f714)

  88. “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!”

    — President Donald Trump

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  89. “From the FBI and across the intelligence agencies an astonishing number of people are going to find themselves accused, one can safely predict at this point, of some atrocious behavior in a free republic. And it will not just be the small change of Peter Strzok (the dimwitted director of counter-intelligence) and his gal pal Lisa Page. It will include—on one level or another—James Comey, Loretta Lynch, John Brennan, James Clapper, Susan Rice and, almost inevitably, Barack Obama, not to mention others known and unknown.

    All these people’s reputations will be damaged forever for the pathetic purpose of getting Hillary Clinton elected president and later for their determination to manipulate the FBI and intelligence agencies to wound as severely as possible Trump’s presidency. That they didn’t stop to think that they might be wounding America at the same time is extraordinarily selfish and nauseating.

    Further, that a Russia collusion investigation was employed by these people for their nefarious purposes is darkly ironic because their technique itself reeks of Stalin’s NKVD.”

    https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/reckoning-fbi-begun/

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  90. Everyone of these hacks needs a hemp rope and a sturdy oak branch.

    mg (9e54f8)

  91. as I thought, McCabe hasn’t lost his pension because it already vested under FERS. Firing him would only mean he can’t take early retirement at 50 (unless the pretend jobs he has been offered count) so he has to wait until 57 to start receiving benefits.

    DRJ (15874d)

  92. Thank you, DRJ. Still … I think losing only seven years of his pension, accentuates not diminishes, the pettiness of Shortfinger and his lickspittles that they would fire him two days before he was eligible for retirement. Not even that big a blow. Like keying his car.

    nk (dbc370)

  93. I agree but I guess he’s losing 7 years of pension income, so it’s significant from that standpoint.

    DRJ (15874d)

  94. McCabe probably isn’t actually losing money in the long run. If he collected his pension now, he would receive a smaller amount because he started early compared to waiting seven years.
    If he was planning on a lump sum payment, it would probably not make a difference in the amount whether he waited or not.

    Now he simply has to make sure he stays alive for seven years…

    Kishnevi (4aeca3)

  95. That’s how SS works but I’m not sure if that’s true for law enforcement pensions like this that offer the possibility of early retirement. Not all federal pensions have that option.

    DRJ (15874d)

  96. That’s how pensions from regular employers work: length of service, age at retirement, and age when you start to collect the pension (you can usually wait to do so) are the determining facts, fed into actuarial tables, and the result comes out automatically.

    Fedgov rules may tweak the details, but I doubt they change the principles. So do early retirement plans. When I took early retirement, I was credited with two more years of service and two years in age, so my pension is based on me being in effect a sixty year old man who worked twentnine years at Penney’s, although I was actually 58 with 27 years on the job.

    Kishnevi (4aeca3)

  97. It’s confusing but I think law enforcement has different options:

    Considering McCabe’s number of years at the agency and estimations of his high-level pay grade, formulas published by the US Office of Personnel Management for law enforcement officers show that his yearly payout could hit in the area of $60,000 each year, if McCabe were to retire after his birthday on Sunday.

    If he were to be fired before Sunday, it appears likely McCabe could be docked his pension until he hits another, later age milestone.

    ***

    On top of that, McCabe could also lose his law enforcement boost.

    “What he would lose — and this is a lot of money — he would lose the enhanced benefits that law enforcement officers get,” said George Chuzi, an attorney who represents federal employees.
    Under the rules of FERS, that means he could be left with the standard multiplier of 1% on top of his years of service, down from the 1.7% enhanced rate for law enforcement.

    Former FBI officials tell CNN that McCabe could also lose out on future health care coverage in his retirement if he were to be fired before he turned 50, and the firing could be subject to litigation.

    DRJ (15874d)

  98. “GOOD: Firing McCabe sent ‘shot across the bow’ to other federal workers. The allegedly nonpartisan civil service has been functioning as a major arm of the “Resistance.”

    —- Glenn Reynolds

    https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/291762/

    Colonel Haiku (ed0bb1)


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