Posted on 03/17/2018 5:16:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s over. Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe has been fired from the bureau. The announcement occurred a little after 10 P.M. The move comes around two days prior to McCabe receiving his hefty pension package. That is now in doubt, though The Washington Post said McCabe could file a lawsuit to receive full benefits. He spoke with FBI officials for four hours this week to ensure he wasn’t terminated before his pre-determined retirement. McCabe was forced out of his position at the FBI in January, but he wasn't fired. He was put on something called "terminal leave," where he remains employed at the FBI until his retirement that was set to be later this month. It would've allowed him to obtain that $1.8 million pension that was lined up (via WaPo):
Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.
Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., 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.”
He said based on those findings and the recommendation of the department’s senior career official, “I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”
The move will likely cost McCabe a significant portion of his retirement benefits, though it is possible he could bring a legal challenge. McCabe has been fighting vigorously to keep his job, and on Thursday, he spent nearly four hours inside the Justice Department pleading his case.
McCabe was cited for improperly disclosing the friction between the Department of Justice and the FBI over the investigation into the Clinton Foundation to The Wall Street Journal, and for misleading investigators when questioned about it in a DOJ inspector general report. Due to this revelation, the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended his termination.
In a statement, Attorney Jeff Sessions explained why he decided to terminate McCabe effective immediately:
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.
UPDATE: McCabe says the Obama-appointed IG is singling him out.
FULL TEXT: Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe releases statement on firing, says effort 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." pic.twitter.com/1sCqxZysG1— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 17, 2018
McCabe accuses IG Horowitz, an Obama appointee, of singling him out to appease Trump. https://t.co/gurWfkqUgs— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 17, 2018
UPDATE II: President Trump says McCabe firing is a “great day for democracy.”
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!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
It used to be gov’t workers were paid well under the industry averages, but they had a good retirement to look forward to. Now they are paid more than industry, work less, and have a much much much better retirement plan.
Depending on the quality of information cooperating witnesses provide and to whom their testimony leads, I, for one, am fine with the lower level conspiritors getting little to no time in prison, as long as Lynch, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, and their boss(es) are punished.
It seems to me McCabe had his chance to save his own arse and declined.
At the time he was allowed to be a double-dipper. He went from the Navy to a job working as a civilian at the Pentagon, which he did for another 20, getting another pension.
It's my understanding you can't do that anymore.
I think you mean 26 hours.
Thank you. Heck, fed employees don’t need to be anywhere near DC to share the goldbrick mindset.
The NICS/FBI center springs to mind. Also one IRS office (the infamous Cincinnati office that was blamed for Lois Lerner’s misdeeds) where they had a ‘walk at lunch’ health incentive. Well, they walked at lunch. And then they realized they didn’t need to walk so they sat and talked and ate. Some of them smoked while sitting (so much for health). They also realized that nobody would miss them if ‘lunch’ ran to 2, then 3 hrs so they stayed outside in good weather.
But God help you if you stood in front of the doors at 3:30 pm sharp when they all rushed out as if someone phoned in a bomb threat.
- “50th birthday, when he would have become eligible for full retirement benefits.”
- I understand the military 20 year retirement, because getting the young to commit to war, separation, isolation, and 24/7 duty is unique.
- Maybe being FBI is also dangerous, but do regular GS employees also have a 20 year plan? Happens for many groups....firemen, policemen, military.
Those who are promoted towards the top, get to stay in 30 years, and receive about 55% of their base pay (base pay doesn’t include any of the benefits you have been receiving; housing, specialty pay, etc).
Those leaving at 20 to 29 years get proportionately less. Retirement pay at 20 years in not much, 20% of base pay, I think.
Now, the difference with other gov employees, some who may or may not be getting retirement pay immediately after they retire, is our pay is given immediately after retirement is because the military keeps you on retainer until age 55. This means in time of a big war, they can call you up and you cannot say no.
It’s worse than that.
I personally know government workers who “retired” from one position, received full pension benefits, then returned to work in another government job which also ended with additional retirement benefits.
Common for most Civil Service jobs, too.
I’ve been retired too long. There are four plans now. The first, for those who enlisted before 1981 is the best. They get progressively less generous. One example of the changes, can get 40% base pay after 20 years.
Go to this site to see the latest. https://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay/computing-retired-military-pay.html
Holy Crap.
I can’t believe Sessions had the stones to do it.
Now maybe some of these swamp pricks will be on notice.
Good news is that he’ll qualify for a prison medical care plan.
How great it must have been for Jeff Sessions to shed his cowardice cape for ONE DAY and do the right thing!!!
Yep, he’s the bad guy not the crooked FBI scum called McCabe.
“I personally know government workers who “retired” from one position, received full pension benefits, then returned to work in another government job which also ended with additional retirement benefits.”
It’s called ‘double dipping’ and is as old as the hills here in MA.
Not correct.
20 years = 50% base pay
30 years = 75% base pay.
They are changing it now though to include a 401K like plan so that if you leave before 20 years you have something for it.
Military retirees should be getting the 1.8 million dollar pensions, NOT swamp creatures.
“I never said FULL benefits at age 50. It’s early retirement at age 50.
Common for most Civil Service jobs, too.”
Whatever, it’s friggin’ BS.
I get nothing until age 62. And then it’s peanuts.
Why should “Public Servants” get more? And earlier?
That means I dig ditches, while those who are supposed to be “serving” me are off to the Bahamas.
On MY dime.
UNACCEPTABLE.
My aging eyes misread part of the report, that McCabe “licked candy” …
(Then again, perhaps someone should give this poor baby a lollipop to help console him while he’s crying over this ;-)
Again, 100% correct and exactly the problem. I wouldn’t mind (and actually support the idea) paying them above the industry average if they actually performed better than their industrial counterparts. But they don’t. Because unlike their counterparts they aren’t held accountable when they screw up, or perform in a substandard way. So there’s no motivation to perform at the level their salary should demand. Should demand for anyone with a conscience. Which evidently they don’t have. (Well most in the higher levels anyway).
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