Fire Andrew McCabe

Andrew McCabe is facing his day of reckoning. And it’s about time.

The McCabe story goes back a ways. It’s necessary to hark back in time to fully understand the dynamics. Terry McAuliffe  and Hillary Clinton fatally compromised McCabe in 2015:

By now you know that long time Clinton confidant and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe used $467,500 of his PAC money to “help” Jill McCabe, the wife of FBI agent Andrew McCabe in her bid for Congress. The Virginia Democratic Party, virtually controlled by McAuliffe, tossed in another $200,000. The money began flowing into the McCabe campaign coffers, in another one of those galactic coincidences, at the same time the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton was initiated in July 2015.

Right around the same time, FBI Agent McCabe was “unexpectedly” promoted from heading the Washington DC office to the number 3 position at the FBI. Within a year McCabe was Deputy Director of the FBI.

Now catch this:

In a statement to the Journal, the FBI said McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind. Months after the completion of her campaign, then-Associate Deputy Director McCabe was promoted to Deputy, where, in that position, he assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails.”

Another galactic coincidence. As if as Deputy Director McCabe was expected to erase from his memory the nearly three quarters of a million dollars a close pal of the Clinton’s donated to his wife’s campaign.

It gets worse. A lot worse.

Just prior to that PAC money went into Jill McCabe’s campaign, Hillary Clinton did a campaign fundraiser event for the very PAC (Common Good VA) that would soon shovel that money into the campaign of the wife of the FBI agent was promoted as the Clinton investigation began and who within a month would be put in charge of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

Clinton helped raise a million dollars in that effort and bucket loads of cash continued to flow in afterward;

Although Common Good VA is only allowed to fund state-level candidates, many of its largest donations came from outside of Virginia – including $50,000 from Clinton Foundation official Doug Band in New York, $100,000 from Clinton loyalist Robert Johnson in Maryland, and $10,000 from Clinton mega-donor Stephen Cloobeck in Nevada.

In the following months, Common Good VA received several major donations from other close Clinton associates, including $100,000 from Bill Clinton’s business partner Ron Burkle in California and $50,000 from Ready for Hillary’s finance committee member Leonard Lauder in New York.

So let’s recap with my untrained eye. Hillary Clinton does a fundraiser for Common Good VA to raise money that is given to the campaign of the wife of the head of the FBI Washington DC field office who is unexpectedly promoted to Number 3 person at the FBI who after his wife’s loss in the election is promoted to Number 2 at the FBI and placed in charge of the Hillary Clinton investigation who then finds no reason to prosecute her.

Subsequently, he should have stepped away from anything to do with HIllary Clinton and Donald Trump, but he did not. Every action he took since then is questionable. And he made some bad decisions. In testimony before a Congressional committee McCabe ‘s testimony conflicted with previous testimonies and there was this problem:

Investigators say McCabe recounted to the panel how hard the FBI had worked to verify the contents of the anti-Trump “dossier” and stood by its credibility. But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier’s allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow.

The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall – despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.

But his downfall apparently came following his interview with investigators from the DOJ Inspector General’s office:

The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog will criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for authorizing leaks to the media and giving misleading statements to investigators about doing so, according to two new reports.

McCabe, 49, authorized FBI officials to speak to the media for articles prior to the 2016 election, including one about an ongoing investigation into the Clinton Foundation, according to a report being prepared by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.

The FBI No. 2 also misled watchdog investigators when they initially asked about the media disclosures, according to The Washington Post.

The New York Times also reported details of Horowitz’s report, which is expected to be released in March or April.

Consequently, the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended he be terminated:

WASHINGTON — The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility has recommended the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who remains on the payroll — a move that could put his pension at risk, according to officials familiar with the process.

It is now up to Attorney General Jeff Sessions whether to reverse that recommendation or to accept it.

It is important to understand that it is not Donald Trump doing this. It is the FBI.

If terminated today, McCabe would lose his pension. This is no small consideration. democrats will rise as one to assign the blame the Trump administration because that’s what they do. McCabe should have thought about his pension before he engaged in the conspiracy to first defeat and then delegitimize the Trump administration.

There was a piece on CNN lamenting McCabe’s possible fate while putting the greatest possible anti-Sessions political spin on it at the same time:

It is worth noting, however, that a decision by the attorney general to remove McCabe would potentially benefit Sessions politically. Sessions has been under constant scrutiny by a White House furious with his decision to recuse himself in the ongoing special counsel investigation into possible collusion with Russia by members of the Trump campaign.

Then Campbell adds this:

This entire debacle has created quite a chasm within the ranks of the bureau. In talking with former colleagues, there are those who think there is no excuse for lying and, if he did so, McCabe should face the consequences, and a camp that is suspicious of the timing of the recommendation, and who believe it would be unduly cruel to deny a public servant a full pension after nearly 22 years of service.

Tell it to Gen. Michael Flynn who, with his 33 years of service, is being financially ruined by Robert Mueller  after being cleared by the FBI.

This cannot stand. Such a high level FBI official being granted forgiveness for lying would tar the FBI forever. If the FBI OPR says he should be fired, that’s more than enough.

He must be terminated. Today.

Then go after Comey.

DrJohn

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