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Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
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Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
Would have retired, and been entitled to, full benefits on Sunday, but was fired for "lack of candor " with journalists.


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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
Then we should fire the WLB for the same violation.  Right fucking now.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
So Jeff Sessions will imperil a man's pension to score points with Trump in some vain attempt to forestall his own almost certain departure. Classy, scumbag!
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
(March 16, 2018 at 10:56 pm)c172 Wrote: Would have retired, and been entitled to, full benefits on Sunday, but was fired for "lack of candor " with journalists.


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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
We have quickly become one ugly excuse for a nation. I always felt that the Trump/Republican administration would be awful, but this is far, far worse than imagined. I am more and more convinced that a society so ill that it allowed someone like Trump to take power, and is making no real effort to remove him by whatever means necessary, is one that can not, and should not, survive.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
"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." - CNN front page article

It's very possible McCabe deserved to be fired.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
Not days. 28 hours.   day with negligible rounding error.   Nothing says smarts as a president who would rather have a pissed off FBI agent outside the tent pissing in, rather than cut him a deal to stay quiet, allow him to retire so he is inside the tent pissing out.

(March 17, 2018 at 6:00 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: So Jeff Sessions will imperil a man's pension to score points with Trump in some vain attempt to forestall his own almost certain departure. Classy, scumbag!

McCabe will not miss his pension.  His book deal will be worth many times more.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
(March 17, 2018 at 10:45 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(March 17, 2018 at 6:00 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: So Jeff Sessions will imperil a man's pension to score points with Trump in some vain attempt to forestall his own almost certain departure. Classy, scumbag!

McCabe will not miss his pension.  His book deal will be worth many times more.

True. I'm not really concerned about McCabe's money so much as I'm incensed at Sessions and his self-serving, toadying behavior. No balls. No class.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
(March 17, 2018 at 10:45 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Not days. 28 hours.   day with negligible rounding error.   Nothing says smarts as a president who would rather have a pissed off FBI agent outside the tent pissing in, rather than cut him a deal, allow him to retire so he is inside the tent pissing out.

(March 17, 2018 at 6:00 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: So Jeff Sessions will imperil a man's pension to score points with Trump in some vain attempt to forestall his own almost certain departure. Classy, scumbag!

McCabe will not miss his pension.  His book deal will be worth many times more.

Doesn't matter. The private sector, and even public employee unions, have for decades fired people right before their pensions kick in to save money.

I doubt this had anything to do with pensions and everything to do with 45 being a bully trying to avoid a charge by the FBI. 

Never in my lifetime since I started paying attention to politics, have I seen this amount of turnover rate in one administration at that pace. This is not the behavior of a president that knows what he is doing. This is the behavior of a despot wannabe.
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RE: Andrew McCabe fired just days before retirement
Can't help but feel in this hyper partisan era if McCabe's sin had been the other way round and we switch all references to the other party/candidate, McCabe would consider himself lucky to only be fired and not stuffed in a cement mixer with razor blades and bowling balls and rabid bats.
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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