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.

[Hotlanta Mike]

He was eligible to get full retirement at age 50 because of his 21 years of service. The media is estimating the pension is worth about $1.8 million because they are basing that on 30 years of government payouts to him assuming he will live that long.

[AAABEST]

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

This guy (from Maryland) is going for his second nice pension. He's about 10 years in with the local PD dispatch (Florida). 10 more and he retires on a second pension... so he'll be making in pensions what some Fortune 500 CEOs make in salary.

Apparently, the pension business is more lucrative than landscaping.

[apocalypto]

Whining McCabe has become the “Hillary of the FBI” blaming Trump. Surely he is aware of the the wrongs he has committed. Who will he blame next? Russians?

[Sacajaweau]

Same mindset as Comey....I think there's much more to their relationship....like secret meetings...secret tapes.....secret connections....

He will not sue.

And Comey will get caught up in this cuz in the end, it was Comey's brotherhood that did him wrong.

[Sacajaweau]

It’s low because he intended to take it early. If he waited until full retirement, it would be MUCH higher.

[Sacajaweau]

If he had left on his own accord when he first said he would leave...he could tack on....BUT he played a game instead and lost. I hope Comey tutored McCabe on his course of action.

[Ambrosia]

So you are saying that McCabe will get a lot more when he takes full retirement, and supposing he lives to the average age of most men....he will get more money? I read yesterday that he will be able to take his retirement at full age, even if fired and unable to do so now, or were they wrong?

[vette6387]

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

But in order to do that job, you have to be Black!

[Alberta's Child]

I read yesterday that in McCabe’s age cohort, his retirement package is a combination of his $60,000 pension and his tax-deferred 401(k) plan. It sounds like these traditional pensions are slowly being phased out in some levels of government.

[LibertarianLiz]

Yeah, I caught that "last minute" stuff as well. There was a thorough review of the evidence by the IG. The IG wrote a report and gave a recommendation, the AG read the report and came to a conclusion, McCabe was fired. Yeah, "last minute".

I suppose they were writing about his "pension"; but, after what he did, I don't care if he doesn't get his pension.

[Sacajaweau]

No....What he gets will be based on his present salary....not what it would be when he takes his retirement....cuz there is no “would be”.

[Steely Tom]

Several attorneys on FNC last night were saying that McCabe has virtually no chance winning his case. I just hope Horowitz report is out immediately, and that a new special counsel will have an indictment for him in short order.

As soon as the Democrats are back in power, they'll pass new laws that make it impossible to dismiss any federal employee within one year — or within ten years, maybe — of their pension fully vesting, and they'll make it retroactive, and McCabe will get all his pension, with any losses made up double or triple.

He's got nothing to worry about.

[Sacajaweau]

A big piece is Medical benefits for life....and he’s gonna lose that....probably hook, line and sinker.

[Ambrosia]

Thanks, that makes sense to me.

[Sacajaweau]

They’re right. Same thing that I said. You just added in your own money analysis.

[Sacajaweau]

The big thing when I worked for Government was guys getting BIG promotions along with monstrous salary increases shortly before retirement.

[TnTnTn]

Yeah it’s Trump’s fault that you were fired for being a lying, colluding, leaking, pos on hellary’s behalf. The whole collusion investigation is based on partisan lies and all the investigators are tainted....the whole business should be thrown into the trash from whence it began.......

[Lurker]

“This guy (from Maryland) is going for his second nice pension.”

Same here. It’s called The Double Dip. My local Assistant Fire Chief retired after 20 on a full pension and the age of 47. $75,000 a year. He then went on to be hired one jurisdiction over as Fire Chief at $90,000 a year and will do another 20 so he can retire at 67 and combine both pensions.

Our local Chief of Police pulled the same scam. The only difference being is he got hired on as the Village Manager at $100,000 a year.

And, since this is Illinois, all pensions are Constitutionally protected and cannot be “impaired or diminished” in any way, shape, or form.

And there are thousands of these parasites bleeding Illinois taxpayers white. The last thumb in our eyes is that these “benefits are assignable to spouses after their deaths. It’s outrageous.

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[Delta 21]

I am sure that a felony conviction might not look so good on his retirement $$ appeal so he better right on that.

[frog in a pot]

...or maybe he turned evidence...then got fired to look like he is being persecuted...then fight back...

Thinking outside the box! Nice twist.

McCabe probably begged to be fired. He knows how deep he is in and is no doubt clever enough to respond aggressively for his and his family's future. If he had received his pension instead of rightly being fired he certainly would have been viewed as a sell-out and thus a marked man, and he knew that. With this crew there is always the "forever" option which is the least expensive (see Seth Rich).

Of course, in front of any jury he will be asked if he has been promised or agreed to anything of value in return for his testimony. Thus, his value may be limited to showing where the bodies (incriminating documents, etc.) are buried, and that may be worth the price of whatever.

Somewhere in the deal is a (30yrs x $x) bonus. Hell, Soros would probably pay him a greater amount just to shut him up.