(03-19-2018, 10:47 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Not commenting on the timing and pension, but it seems the FBI itself recommended the firing.  

The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that McCabe be fired after an internal report by the Justice Department’s inspector general accused the FBI veteran of misleading investigators looking into how FBI and Justice Department officials handled an array of matters connected to the 2016 presidential campaign, a source briefed on the recommendation told ABC News.

(03-16-2018, 11:30 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-deputy-director-fired-days-retirement-kick/story?id=53805919

...press secretary Sarah Sanders said McCabe's "troubling behavior" was "well-documented," insisting McCabe was "by most accounts a bad actor."

(03-19-2018, 12:12 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread is why wasn't this point mentioned in OP?  If the information detailed in the internal investigation is accurate, then McCabe was guilty of some very egregious and unethical conduct.  As for the gentleman losing his retirement, that is harsh.  I would think though, that our resident LEO critics would support such a firing, and him not receiving special treatment, if the accusations against him are true, as the FBI's own investigation found.

(03-19-2018, 01:08 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Hmmmm.  If he did this then he should lose his pension.  

(03-19-2018, 01:21 PM)GMDino Wrote: Had the POTUS not called for his firing long before said report you might have a better point.  It "seems" like a report to justify a move already planned.  Time will tell, as they say.

(03-19-2018, 01:30 PM)Dill Wrote: That is what we should be talking about, instead of all this complaining about a president dogging potential witnesses against him.

(03-19-2018, 01:52 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: So then, your accusation is that the men and women in the FBI's internal investigations unit fabricated the results of their investigation at the whim of Sessions or Trump?  It's either McCabe was found to be involved in unethical conduct or numerous people in the internal investigations department are engaged in unethical conduct.

(03-19-2018, 02:37 PM)GMDino Wrote: I made no "accusations" I said to wait and see because it seems the POTUS wanted McCabe fired long before there was a report.

(03-19-2018, 02:40 PM)michaelsean Wrote: But as we all know, the FBI has risen to the level of Papal infallibility starting in Jan 2017, so if they recommended it then it's a lock.

(03-19-2018, 02:43 PM)GMDino Wrote: Well that's hyperbole, but understandable if someone has a political horse being followed by the FBI.

The report has not been released...so we'll see.

(03-19-2018, 02:37 PM)GMDino Wrote: I made no "accusations" I said to wait and see because it seems the POTUS wanted McCabe fired long before there was a report.

(03-19-2018, 02:40 PM)michaelsean Wrote: But as we all know, the FBI has risen to the level of Papal infallibility starting in Jan 2017, so if they recommended it then it's a lock.

(03-19-2018, 02:53 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: No such statement is necessary as either one is true or the other.  I got immense enjoyment from the CNN thread in which I stated one or the other party was lying.  That statement of basic fact was lambasted as if I claimed some magical perception denied to others when in fact I was pointing out the obvious for the simple reason that it did not appear to be obvious to some.  This is the exact same type of scenario; either McCabe is lying and deserved to be fired, or the investigation that found his termination warranted and necessary was corrupt.  Such corruption would require the participation of several individuals as such internal investigations are carried out by a team and their conclusions have to be approved by a supervisor, likely multiple supervisors.

(03-19-2018, 02:53 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: So, I'll reiterate, when you plant your flag with Team McCabe you are directly stating that the investigation conducted by the internal affairs team was corrupt.