AG Sessions fires former FBI Deputy Director McCabe and McCabe fires back

American Thinker ^ | 03/17/2018 | Howard J. Warner

[SeekAndFind]

Washington insiders must be wondering what will happen next after the last-minute decision by AG Jeff Sessions to terminate former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe only hours before his retirement would have been effective.  This action will surely give partisans plenty to fight over during the coming days and months.

We must remember how this came about.  This action demonstrates the danger in draining the Washington swamp and the resistance within the establishment to President Trump and his administration.  The McCabe pension was reported to be worth up to $1.8 million, as he is 50 years old and could easily receive 30 years of pension for 20 years of work.   This loss certainly could make an enemy of the former Acting FBI Director. 

McCabe (a lawyer) issued a public statement that is a political response and an argument for a defamatory claim against the President. 

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.

[damper99]

I would have guessed his pension is higher. Colonels retire with one about $80k.

[vette6387]

“He was poised to draw $60,000 a year at age 50! Something is definitely wrong with the federal retirement system if this is correct.”

Chickenfeed! Our town’s first police chief retired out due to a heart attack (he’s actually a friend). Public pensions are public a public record here. Today, his total pension, which has been indexed for inflation, twenty years later is now more than $150k per year. Also, we have had two fire chiefs retire in close succession as each one reached “full retirement” at age 50. They make make more in retirement than the made in their last working years because of “accrued vacation.” Their first year’s retirement income is 280,000, $100,000 above their working salaries. If they each live to age 80 ( along with their spouses should they live longer than their husbands), their cost to the taxpayers will be something on the order of $10 million apiece.

[Right Brother]

I know a school counselor that retired at 56 with $60k annually after making $55k when working. It’s criminal. I’m surprised McCabe’s retirement is that low.

[JonPreston]

Given that McCabe is a lying perjurer, any case he worked on over his 21 years is tainted. The appeals should mount up quickly.

[madprof98]

I remember Obama, early in his presidency, gushing about the great sacrifices made by so-called “public servants.” I think this is one of those selfless heroes.

[AAABEST]

Amercan workers work till they are in their 70’s so the civil “servants” can retire with million dollar pensions at 50...

I know a dude who sat on his ass in a Firehouse for 20 years and retired in his early forties with a 6 figure pension for life, full boat medical/dental for the entire family - for life.

[bigbob]

Since he was fired for lying, everything he says now should be taken as truthful... /s

[Engedi]

Yep, it was suggested by McCabe friendlies that he can get his pension if someone in the government/civil service departments hire him even for just one week.

Sickening.

[Lurker]

“I know a dude who sat on his ass in a Firehouse for 20 years and retired in his early forties with a 6 figure pension..”

Let me guess: disability is involved. That’s the Firehouse scam here. It’s always back problems caused by lifting gurneys. Our local FPD is rife with 40 something year old guys being “disabled” and leaving with full pensions of over $80,000 a year.

Then they go on to run landscaping or others businesses “owned” by the wife.

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[painter]

Bump !

[shelterguy]

“”””Yep, it was suggested by McCabe friendlies that he can get his pension if someone in the government/civil service departments hire him even for just one week.””””””””””

Nope.

[Kahuna]

The catalyst for his termination was that the Office of Professional Responsibility (FBI) found more than enough evidence that he lied on numerous occasions. They very rarely recommend a firing so Jeff Sessions should not be on the hot seat. Of course the rats will ignore the truth and you will never hear about the IG’s report on McCabe and the findings by the independent review.

[shelterguy]

According to CNN this morning he was fired because he was getting too close in the Russia Russia Russia thing. That is why PRESIDENT TRUMP fired him.

[leftcoaster]

I think he was not cooperating like the white hats were demanding of him. That is why it went down to the deadline. “Make a deal with us, Andy, or we fire your ass and you get no pension, plus you get to face prosecution as well.”

Andy didn’t make a good-faith offer.

[Susquehanna Patriot]

The public sector pension programs (federal and state) are unsustainable and are eventually going to be curtailed and/or eliminated. The private sector has had a jump start on abandoning unsustainable, back-end loaded defined benefit pensions - promised more when times were good and the subsequent mismanagement and liabilities made it difficult or impossible to sustain as the future arrived to pay out benefits. But that is for another thread.

What McCabe situation shows in the background is how federal employees can be rewarded with pensions and paid medical benefits that non government workers can only dream about.

[1FreeAmerican]

Yes $60k a year is squat! He should have been a Chicago school administrator and that would have been $18million plus!

[Dana1960]

But the last two were spent trying to overturn a national election. And framing two innocent men - Flynn and DJT.

I’d say he is getting off easy.

[1FreeAmerican]

His first book deal will be worth at least that.

[Dana1960]

I read someplace that that the coward of Broward will draw about 60k per year.

[vette6387]

“The public sector pension programs (federal and state) are unsustainable and are eventually going to be curtailed and/or eliminated. “

Undeniably true! We’ve seen several cities here in CA go through bankruptcy recently and there were two driving forces:

1) Public Safety Employees Pay Scales ( Cops and FFs accounting for as much as 80% of the city’s budget.

2) Public Employee Pensions

These are inescapable realities that are “cans” than cannot be kicked down the road any longer. The whole business has been a RAT Party “vote buying scheme” that has finally “run itself out of other people’s money.”