McCabe was fired by the FBI, and will lose his pension. It’s pretty clear now that his “retirement” was an attempt to outrun his perfidy.
Fox News had been predicting this. In my opinion, he (and others in this now greatest political scandal in American history, if the Democrat operatives in the media would actually report it properly) should be worried bout a lot more than losing pensions…
[Saturday-morning update]
The reckoning of the FBI has begun.
It’s long overdue. The rot goes back to the first Clinton administration, if not all the way back to Hoover himself.
More might come from subsequent IG reports, but Mr. McCabe was fired for not being forthcoming (lack of candor being a fireable offense at the FBI) during the IG’s investigation into his authorizing subordinates to discuss the active instigation into the Clinton Foundation with a WSJ reporter to whom the NY field office had already leaked about the investigation and who was going to run a story anyhow. Ostensibly, Mr. McCabe was trying to set the story straight, making it clear that resistance to the investigation was not coming from his office, but that he was bucking resistance coming from the Obama DOJ. Nothing in these particular events suggests an anti-Trump or pro-Clinton bias. (Again, more IG reports are coming this spring, and we will have to wait to hear what they find.) This is reminiscent of Mr. Comey being fired for saying mean things about Ms. Clinton.
That might be the reason given but not the only reason.
McCabe’s pension should consist of a lifelong guarantee of 3 square meals a day, plus all the sex his cellmate Bubba should care to demand of him (with or without lube).
I have to agree with Mark Levin on this one: this is the greatest scandal in the history of the Republic. And if the Democrat party isn’t completely and utterly destroyed by it, that party will completely and utterly rule all of us with an iron fist. We will never, ever recover our freedom from it.
And if the Democrat party isn’t completely and utterly destroyed by it, that party will completely and utterly rule all of us with an iron fist.
Losing an election, trying to destroy this country and set up their own, and in the process starting a bloody war didn’t ruin the Democrats. Neither did the subsequent century of actively enforcing racial segregation on this country.
“Losing an election, trying to destroy this country and set up their own, and in the process starting a bloody war didn’t ruin the Democrats.”
Upon first reading, I thought you were talking about the 2016 election, not the Civil War (which I assume was your intent). This time around, they have put into place the machinery of government surveillance of citizens, the gigantic array of federal agencies (starting with the IRS) that can persecute those citizens, and have the willing compliance of a press that will support their every persecution. I can’t understand why even the Left isn’t terrified of this kind of monstrosity.
Because they believe history is on their side and the apparatus of oppression could never be turned against them.
So far, it is just a slap on the wrist compared to what Flynn is facing. Heck, Martha Stewart got worse than McCabe.
Do we know how much of the IG’s report will be released, and if we will ever know exactly what his “lack of candor” represented?
The candor part is a little confusing. I have seen things saying he wanted to make sure investigations into Hillary went forward but also that he sat on emails obtained from Wiener’s laptop for a month before presenting them to Comey.
I suspect that much like Hillary’s employees, Fusion GPS, set up a meeting with Trump Jr in order to claim Russian collusion, there there are some shenanigans taking place for CYA.
Lack of candor is also known as not telling the whole truth, which is lying by omission. I wouldn’t recommend doing that your local law enforcement, much less the FBI.
As far as cleaning out the corrupt Democrats in the DOJ who are complicit in the actions of the Obama administration, I will believe it when I see it.
Plenty of circumstantial evidence that McCabe was a participant in a plot to abuse the powers of the DOJ to stage a soft coup. The texts between Strzok and Page are incriminating and also comments like this,
But it will not erase the important work I was privileged to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see.
Do you suppose Congressman Mark Pocan just ruined this for the Democrats by offering Mr. McCabe a staff job to remain Federal Pension eligible?
The whole thing about Mr. McCabe being financially ruined by President Trump vindictiveness (and the A.G. being such a Boy Scout about acting on the I.G. report) is thrown out the window.
Mr. McCabe and his “corner” were going to Fight, Fight, Fight for what’s Right, but if the former FBI man is made financially whole by a stint as a sys admin for a back-bencher in Congress from some ultra-liberal college-town district, it becomes no harm, no foul and many Democrats lose a talking point?
According to the tweet it was not a long term job.. he said give me a two day report on the crime families in washington DC
I’m just wondering if I’ll be around when the real shooting war starts? The dems lost every elected branch of government yet are still running things. They know this which is why watching domestic militias are a higher priority for them.
Actually, the Dems appear to be winning enough Federal special elections and off-year election at the state level lately that they think reversing this trend is within grasp. Never mind that in the Alabama Senate race and last week’s Pennsylvania House election they fielded, who for modern Democrats, are far right-wing candidates, and the Republican candidate in Alabama appeared to have very lukewarm support outside an intensely committed base of supporters.
When Scott Adams was forecasting the Triumph of Trump, he was basing this on his Persuasion Filter theory — that the vast preponderance of voter decisions are made on the same basis that we select competing consumer products rather than commitment of philosophical principles, as the case with most people here.
Mr. Adams hasn’t written off President Trump quite yet, but Adams argued that Trump’s razor-thin election margins rather than the landslide Adams was forecasting was the consequence of missteps — one was the badmouthing of the immigration activist speaking at the Democratic National Convention, whose son died in service of our country. Another could be the release of Access Hollywood tapes.
Scott Adams argument is that Mr. Trump’s success to date is not so much his advancing of what many here on Rand’s fine site argue as advancing the Libertarian/Conservative agenda — Justice Gorsuch, deregulation, enforcing existing immigration law to deport aliens who have committed major crimes, the tax cut, (mostly but not completely) staying our of the Middle Eastern wars. Rather, Mr. Trump’s success has been on molding perceptions of him as being confident and powerful.
Mr. Trump is now on a different stage than selling overpriced slabs of meat, casinos, luxury apartments or for-profit post-high school education. The Empire is Striking Back, and the relentless negative coverage on network TV must be taking its toll, however much Mr. Trump is able to persuade people to distrust the media.
Much of the Media is indeed Fake News (see the late Michael Crichton’s essay on the Gell-Mann effect, where physicist Richard Feynman was teasing his colleague, fellow Nobel laureate and professional rival Murray Gell-Mann for believing what he read in the newspaper), and the most newsworthy “pickups” of the Democrats is where they ran centrist Republicans-apart-from-the-party-label.
Also, the entire GOP establishment is in work mode and they don’t know whether to embrace Trumpism or run the other way — they are like a deer caught in the headlights to running to safety in either direction.
That’s not entirely coherent, but I get the drift, and you are generally right. The Empire is striking back. They are very powerful and entrenched, and they have long experience in knowing just which buttons to push to get their way.