The IG is also sitting there with a full set of McCabe's emails that the court has ordered that he turn over to Judicial Watch but the IG is refusing to do so because they are part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Mueller might be looking for something in the notes to give him a lead but he is not going to be calling McCabe as a witness any time soon. It could also backfire on Mueller because we know that he is looking to bag Trump and not just to find the truth. Since the existence of those notes is known, Trump's team is entitled to see them if he is charged or even as part of the plea dealing. If McCabe's notes don't record anything related to attempts to obstruct- other than Comey restating that just seeing the president made him uneasy- then that is exculpatory evidence that will work in Trumps favor. Comey needs to watch his arse. You know the law and departmental rules require all FBI employees to report any attempts to influence their conduct or a case to their superiors or to the IG. Comey testified to Congress that he was uneasy about seeing Trump but did not think he was trying to influence him. Later, after he was fired, he started saying he thought he was trying to obstruct his investigation at that meeting. There is an appearance that Comey did not report Trumps attempts to influence his investigation as long as he thought his job was still there. Or that he did not think that he was influencing him until he was fired, then it became convenient to think that. Which is it Jim? A jury would want to know.
Looks like the Democrats in Congress are about to undermine Trump and Sessions on this... Democratic Congressman offers McCabe a two day long job so he can get his pension https://www.jsonline.com/story/news...red-fbi-deputy-director-mccabe-job/435178002/
The Justice Department fulfilled its responsibility to move out a bad actor as soon as they could deal with the recommendations from their inspector general. If other clowns want to put together a go fund me page to get him his early retirement then they are free to do that. I will say again that I still think he is good to go on the full retirement at 57, it is just the early bird special thing that is at risk. It is important that McCabe leave the FBI as a fired and disgraced person to make a statement and get him out of there. As I said, others can do whatever they want to help him, but when the additional stuff about McCabe comes out there would have been a firestorm of protest as to why lazy boy sessions and the FBI protect-your-own types just let him just run out the clock. They will not take heat on that now. They did what they could to expose him and move him out. McCabe and others need to be careful about getting too cute and giving the Justice Department the finger and taunting them and calling the Inspector General a witch hunter. They can fully muellerize him at a moments notice, go over to his house in the middle of the night, put the cuffs on him, and indict him for any number of crimes. He might get his full pension but then spend a few hundred thousand on lawyers fees just as muellers victims are going through. Neither Mueller nor McCabe can get their jobs and their reputations back at this point. Comey may do well with his book deal, and McCabe may get his retirement but they are both busted down people now compared to where they would have been. And there is much, much, much more evidence of their wrongdoing still to come.
Maybe he can get a job as a "security expert" with Wasserman's office. They don't do background checks as we know.
This is the storyline where the right is failing. McCabe pushed the Clinton investigation and most likely unethically released info on her to the press to keep the investigation going, and that is what ultimately got him in a bind with OPR. The same thing happened with Comey. As I’m reading some of these comments it’s hard to believe how you guys are completely manipulated by right wing media. Nothing you guys are saying makes any sense. You would benefit from reading McCabe’s statement.
McCabes firing seems politically motivated to me because of the timing. Going after his pension is petty and to recommend his firing without a full report is suspicious because it doesn’t show any context for the findings. I will reserve full judgment on this until the report is released but how this rolled out is fishy.
Yes, and in which one of two those situations - Trumps staffer or Wasserman's Awan- did the lefty media focus on 24/7 for two weeks in faux outrage? Thank you.
How do you conclude that the IG did not make a full report of findings sufficient for firing simply because his findings for other misconduct is still ongoing? They could shit-can page and strzok tomorrow on known facts, although the full report on them is still ongoing.