Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe fired

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Please Mr. President…now fire Mueller…so the last nail is in your administration’s political cofiin and we can wake up from this nightmare!
 
Statement from McCabe
I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the most challenging, demanding investigative and leadership roles in the FBI. And I was privileged to serve as Deputy Director during a particularly tough time.

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 it.

No more.

The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau and to make it clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed.

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.
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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.

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 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.

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. 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.

I have always prided myself on serving my country with distinction and integrity, and I have always encouraged those around me to do the same. Just ask them. 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 chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair. But it will not erase the important work I was prevailed to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see.

I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred.
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Read Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s fiery statement about Sessions’s decision to fire him

“I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played ... in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey.”
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Ridgerunner said:
And maybe he deserves ten years in Leavenworth. AT this point, we don’t know what he deserved and what he didn’t. What we do know is that his termination was recommended by FBI career agents in the Office of Personnel Management of the FBI. Various accounts say it was for lying to federal investigators, though I don’t think we know that.
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One of us needs to post the text of the OPR letter in which McCabe termination was recommended.
 
Well, McCabe’s statement seems incredibly straightforward and believable.
 

Mr. Brennen’s tweet in response to @realdonaldtrump

John O. Brennan
✔️
@JohnBrennan

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. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will triumph over you.
https://
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p/status/974859881827258369
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5:00 AM - Mar 17, 2018
 
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anikins said:
He’s served our country for decades and he’s ripping away his pension?
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Let me fix that. He’s served himself at the expense of the country for decades and now Trump’s ripping away his outrageous pension. Government workers have it easy, at taxpayer expense, and that is an outrage.
 
exnihilo said:
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anikins:
He’s served our country for decades and he’s ripping away his pension?
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Let me fix that. He’s served himself at the expense of the country for decades and now Trump’s ripping away his outrageous pension. Government workers have it easy, at taxpayer expense, and that is an outrage.
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I find your post shocking.
 
I don’t. I have a family member who retired from the government.

Also, government workers get paid more than private workers and have pensions. Almost no one has a pension anymore.
 
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Seems to me that the outcome of all this will be that every FBI agent will now feel (rightly or wrongly) that their livelihoods and their pensions are at risk if they do anything in the course of their jobs that displeases President Trump.

They will be angry.

President Trump has very likely made an enemy of every single FBI agent (and, since they’re watching all this, the US Marshals Service, and the CIA, and who knows who else).

This may very well turn out to have been a huge mistake.

Pissing off the FBI cannot possibly be a good idea.
 
exnihilo said:
Let me fix that. He’s served himself at the expense of the country for decades and now Trump’s ripping away his outrageous pension. Government workers have it easy, at taxpayer expense, and that is an outrage.
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venality: Venality is the quality of being open to bribery or overly motivated by money. A government worker’s venality might lead him to exchange state secrets for cash. Criminals are known for their venality, being willing to break the law for a financial reward.

turpitude: depravity; wickedness.“acts of moral turpitude”

corruption: dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
 
exnihilo said:
I don’t. I have a family member who retired from the government.

Also, government workers get paid more than private workers and have pensions. Almost no one has a pension anymore.
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Wow, so you’re just envious. Okay, got it.
 
Ridgerunner said:
I am not aware of any lies told by Sessions …
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Do you remember why Sessions is recused from the Trump-Russia investigation?
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Sessions’ Firing McCabe Violated His Promise to Recuse

Most focus on what the Attorney General said in his statement of recusal in March 2017. What has been overlooked is when Sessions promised the Senate, under oath, that he would recuse himself from the very matters now involved in firing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
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exnihilo said:
Also, government workers get paid more than private workers and have pensions. Almost no one has a pension anymore.
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Frankly, you sound very much as if you are extremely resentful that you did not have the ability to plan your employment and subsequent retirement so that you have a pension.
 
I just burst out laughing reading this!! Oh man. You are so far lost. Not even worth rescuing.
 
exnihilo said:
True. Because the FBI is a rogue government agency that needs to be disbanded like most of the government.
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Yeah, this one should have come with a keyboard alert so we wouldn’t spit coffee all over the keyboard and monitor!

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He is not the first to be fired because of lying under oath. I think this action is consistent as there were precedents before him.
 
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