What is taking Sessions so long to fire McCabe?

[PatColo]

see Q-Anon drops #s 945-952, all March 15: https://qanonposts.com

Mar 15 2018 19:31:42 Q !UW.yye1fxo 678044
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Did a text search for "McCabe" at https://qanonposts.com , found this lil gem #645 from Jan 29 '18.

RE: https://twitter.com/Comey/status/958145125120663553

"JC" = James Comey:

Jan 29 2018 23:47:54 Q !UW.yye1fxo 80
JC Tweet Translation:
Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall over the last 8 months [DO NOT TALK], when small people [SHEEP] were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on [COVER]. He served with distinction for two decades [WE OWN YOU & YOUR FAMILY]. I wish Andy well [187]. I also wish continued strength for the rest of the FBI [GENERAL THREAT TO OTHERS]. America needs you [ACTIVATE SLEEPER CELLS].
Q

[Cebu_4_2]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/polit...ing/index.html

CNN)After more than a year of investigations, accusations and taunting tweets from the President of the United States, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is breaking his silence.The most recent and serious charge he must now defend against: a career-ending claim that he directed FBI officials to talk to a reporter about an ongoing investigation and misled investigators about his actions.
"I absolutely never misled the inspector general in any way," McCabe said during an hour-long interview with CNN, calling his highly public downfall the result of "a series of attacks designed to undermine my credibility and my reputation" including by President Donald Trump.
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Ex-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe fired


After an FBI career spanning more than two decades and ascent to the No. 2 spot at the bureau, McCabe was fired Friday -- less than two days before his official retirement.
His troubles began during the 2016 presidential campaign, when a report surfaced that his wife accepted nearly $500,000 from the political action committee of then-Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton family ally, during a failed bid for state senate in 2015.
Though McCabe was not promoted to deputy director until months after his wife lost the race, he became a perennial political piñata for President Donald Trump on the campaign trail given that McCabe later oversaw the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information. As president, Trump has continued to hold McCabe up as Exhibit A of political favoritism infecting the FBI when he lashes out against the Russia investigation.
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READ: Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's statement on his firing


In a blistering statement Friday night, McCabe said his firing is part of a larger effort to discredit the FBI and the special counsel's investigation.
"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 said. "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."
Inspector general report


Yet it is McCabe's effort to push back on that narrative of bias in October 2016 that landed him in the crosshairs of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, whose office concluded that McCabe misled investigators about his decision to authorize FBI officials to speak with the media about his role in a separate, ongoing investigation tied to Clinton's family foundation, according to source briefed on it.
McCabe defends that move, telling CNN that he'd received word that Devlin Barrett, then a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, was going to write an article suggesting McCabe was slow-walking the bureau's investigation into the foundation. So, as one of the few top FBI officials with authority to share information with the media, McCabe said he asked other officials to speak with Barrett to "correct factually inaccurate things" and provide more context for issues that had already been reported publicly for months about the infighting between the Justice Department and FBI over the case.
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Embattled FBI official Andrew McCabe could lose 'a lot of money' if fired before Sunday


"The story (Barrett) was proposing to go with was that I personally, and more importantly, the FBI, was subject to inappropriate influence," McCabe said. "And I thought that would be incredibly corrosive to our credibility both externally and internally ... To have my investigators in the field think that people at headquarters are making decisions with DOJ officials based on political leanings would be absolutely devastating."
The inspector general's office announced its wide-ranging inquiry into a number of actions taken by top officials at the FBI and Justice Department in advance of the 2016 election over a year ago but has not publicly released any findings and CNN has not reviewed the report on McCabe.
McCabe told CNN that in December, about a day or two after the press reported that he had confirmed to lawmakers that his onetime boss, former FBI Director James Comey, had, in fact, informed him of a series of hotly contested conversations with the President last year, McCabe found out the inspector general's office had "changed their plans" and would likely issue a report focused exclusively on his actions.
When asked if he believed there was a correlation, or the inspector general was unduly influenced in some way, McCabe demurred, saying: "I don't know."
"I think every time it becomes clear that I will likely play a significant role in whatever comes of the special counsel's efforts, immediately after that I get targeted and attacked by the President and his Twitter account, and now the IG's approach to their own work changes immediately after my testimony gets leaked," he said.
Yet McCabe chalks up any claims that he was less than forthcoming with Justice Department investigators about The Wall Street Journal story as a misunderstanding.
"There have been times that I now know we came away from interactions with a different understanding as to what they had asked and what I had said," McCabe told CNN. "And in each one of those cases, I proactively reached back to the investigators to ensure that they understood completely my recollection of events."
'He brought up my wife every time'


McCabe also opened up about how the President appeared fixated on his wife's failed campaign, recalling at least four occasions in which Trump taunted him with it as a "mistake" or "problem" and calling her a "loser."
Trump raised the issue with Comey "out of the blue," according to McCabe, saying things "like, 'What's wrong with that deputy director of yours?' " insinuating that he was somehow politically motivated against the President, which, McCabe says is "absolutely not true."
"In May, when Director Comey was fired and I had my own interactions with the President, he brought up my wife every time I ever spoke to him," McCabe told CNN, emphasizing that he pushed back. "Of course, I disagreed with him. I don't see my wife's decision to try to enter public life to help her community (have) greater access to healthcare as a mistake or a problem."
McCabe, who said he always considered himself a Republican, also confirmed that the President asked him who he voted for the day after Trump fired Comey and McCabe stepped in as interim FBI director in May.
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Sessions considering whether to fire McCabe


"I didn't vote at all in 2016, and I explained to him that I did not vote in 2016 because the work that we were involved in had such political overtones that I felt it was prudent not to take a side in an election," McCabe said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on their interactions.
May proved to be a monumental month for McCabe as acting FBI director, trying -- as he explained it -- to take "affirmative steps" to ensure that the bureau's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election was on "solid ground" while also briefing Congress and "working closely with the Deputy Attorney General (Rod Rosenstein) advocating for the appointment of the special counsel."
Trump did not, however, ask McCabe to drop the Russia investigation, McCabe told CNN. Though the President did berate him for the fact that Comey flew from California to Washington on an FBI plane after he was fired in May.
Indeed, throughout the past year, the President's ire at McCabe only grew -- with a barrage of tweets questioning why Attorney General Jeff Sessions hadn't fired him, later followed by a suggestion McCabe was "racing the clock to retire with full benefits."
Coming full circle


McCabe stepped down abruptly in January after he says FBI Director Christopher Wray approached him with concerns about what the inspector general had uncovered.
"(Wray) called me in on a Sunday night to tell me that he had been privy to information from the IG's investigation, and then based on that he was going to move me out of my position," McCabe said, explaining that he then decided to take a leave of absence.
Wray wouldn't tell him exactly what investigators found, but reflecting back now, McCabe surmised that if the approval of his outreach to The Wall Street Journal was the reason for his ouster, it would be somewhat hypocritical.
"In December, I had a ... long conversation with the editor of a major national newspaper at Chris Wray's request, and engaged with this editor in an effort to get them to back off a story that we thought would be harmful to our operational equities," McCabe said. "I was then removed from my position in January for having done the same thing in October 2016."

[Neuro]

The show must go on...

[Dachsie]

McCabe was fired about 10PM Friday night, just hours before McCabe's pension was to kick in on Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.2fbfcea140bf

National Security
Andrew McCabe, Trump’s foil at the FBI, is fired hours before he could retire

Leaking to the media.
He lied to his own employer about Clinton email investigation.
Possible criminal charges against McCabe will happen.

We all only know a tiny part of what is going on behind the scenes.

Office of Professional Responsibility recommended the firing and they do not often go after their own.

You can't have a double standard.

Honesty, integrity and accountability is the standard for one of the top law enforcement agencies in the federal government.

or else...

McCable won't go down without a big fight. He knows way too much.

I do not know anything about the FBI except from a very peripheral perspective and the constant pattern is that when the FBI is reported to about possible serious criminal behavior the FBI goes out of its way to not respond and deliberately takes absolutely no action.

[latemetal1]

The Left wing and the Right wing are on the same bird, after 20 or so years a person knows where the bodies are buried too...they won't fire him till he gets his pension.

And my crystal ball sucks...I hope he sings like Pavarotti.

[Cebu_4_2]

McCabe was fired about 10PM Friday night, just hours before McCabe's pension was to kick in on Sunday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.2fbfcea140bf

National Security
Andrew McCabe, Trump’s foil at the FBI, is fired hours before he could retire

Leaking to the media.
He lied to his own employer about Clinton email investigation.
Possible criminal charges against McCabe will happen.

We all only know a tiny part of what is going on behind the scenes.

Office of Professional Responsibility recommended the firing and they do not often go after their own.

You can't have a double standard.

Honesty, integrity and accountability is the standard for one of the top law enforcement agencies in the federal government.

or else...

McCable won't go down without a big fight. He knows way too much.

I do not know anything about the FBI except from a very peripheral perspective and the constant pattern is that when the FBI is reported to about possible serious criminal behavior the FBI goes out of its way to not respond and deliberately takes absolutely no action.

I'd have to say timing is everything. Losing his pension and being sued are good reasons to squawk...nothing to lose?

[vacuum]

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[Cebu_4_2]

Everyone Freaking Out Over McCabe’s Firing Is Missing a Huge Detail

By Benjamin Arie
March 17, 2018 at 1:30pm
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The mainstream media and anti-Trump liberals — which are increasingly hard to tell apart — have taken a clear stance on the firing of Andrew Mc*Cabe: It was done out of spite, and proves just how vindictive the president has become.

That’s the narrative being pushed hard by the news media, after the deputy director of the FBI was officially fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

At first glance, it’s easy to fall for that argument: McCabe was only a day away from retiring, which would have given him full federal benefits … at the taxpayer’s expense, of course.

Missing in the back-and-forth vitriol over McCabe’s firing, however, is an incredibly important detail that the media seems eager to ignore.
It turns out that Donald Trump didn’t randomly decide to show the deputy the director the door on a whim. In fact, it was the FBI itself which recommended that McCabe be terminated — and so did the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department.
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“(Attorney General) Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m.,” The Washington Post reported, 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.'”

In other words, officials would be derelict in their duty if they hadn’t let McCabe go, especially after he leaked information and spoke unprofessionally under oath.

The Post again confirmed that the FBI had recommended the firing after a DOJ probe found wrongdoing.

“His firing — which was recommended by the FBI office that handles discipline — stems from a Justice Department inspector general investigation that found McCabe authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to the media about a Clinton-related case, then misled investigators about his actions in the matter, people familiar with the matter have said,” the respected newspaper reported.
Was firing Andrew McCabe the right decision?

If you listen to the media and the left, the Trump administration was supposed to just ignore the fact that McCabe misled the Department of Justice, and turn a blind eye to a federal employee’s bad actions because he wanted a full retirement package.

Apparently, taking taxpayer money out of the pockets of Americans and spending it on the retirement of a man who two government agencies recommended be fired is completely fine, but following through on an internal investigation is somehow over the line.

It’s worth remembering, too, that the director of the FBI and other deputies like McCabe serve at the pleasure of the president.
Donald Trump had the constitutional power to fire the former deputy director for any reason or no reason at all; the fact that both the DOJ and the FBI both recommended that action is just icing on the cake.

RELATED: Uncovered Text Messages Between FBI Agents Show Appear To Show Collusion on Trump Admin Case

Since day one of his presidency, the media and Democrats have worked overtime to paint Trump as a conniving fool who is the nemesis of the FBI.

In reality, the facts consistently show that it was the FBI which was deeply biased and colluding to undermine the presidency, not the other way around.

At the end of the day, Andrew McCabe was an establishment player who had close connections to the Democrat machine. His own shady actions caused him to be fired, and in true leftist fashion, he’s now throwing a fit because he won’t be getting a free ride paid for by American citizens.

[EE_]

Just so ya know, McCabe will still get his pension at age 57. He is 50 now.

[Cebu_4_2]

Just so ya know, McCabe will still get his pension at age 57. He is 50 now.

I feel sorry for him tho... Poor scab.