FBI Deputy Director McCabe Responds To Firing
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Donald Trump’s thugs were working overtime last night, as Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, in a continuing effort to distract from the Stormy Daniels investigation and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s obstruction of justice probe.
Even though McCabe was fired a mere 9 minutes before the media was informed, he still made a statement defending his behavior. Here are the highlights:
I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years…
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.
The President’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing.
He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service.
And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us.
No more.
The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility.
The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan…
The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes.
Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau…
The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor.
As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret…
It was the type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week….
The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth…
I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them….
The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people.
Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey.
The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President.
The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn…
This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work….
To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the midst of chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair…
I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred.
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[…] and his attorneys of course have every reason to push those claims, and McCabe himself says that he was “singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I […]
Just left another comment on the other post saying I had seen a thought someone had that a senator or rep could hire him for a week and that would leave his pension intact. Left my rep and senator a message and one for Adam Schiff to suggest just that. dolt45 is just pissing of the guys in charge of his investigation. This will not end well for him at all.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work that way, but if it does that’s good for McCabe. Like you said, however, for Trump, this doesn’t end well.
One of the Wisconsin dems has offered him a job already for a 2 day report he needs on crime families in DC. He’s lawyered up with a former IG attorney. This is not going away any time soon. His seniority could be kept intact if he gets hired as a consultant to any dept in fed office.
I expect, when it’s all said and done, he’s going to make a LOT of money on the talk circuit and I expect a book will be coming out. Exciting times ahead as the Big Pig continues to feel the heat, and in the meantime, we can all hope he eats just one more Big Mac, that last one that does his fat ass in. Thoughts and prayers…
I’d rather go with tots and pears. At least they have some nutrition and actually do something for you. All hail the tater tot.
Croaking would be too easy an out for Rump. I want him in Leavenworth for the rest of his miserable days.
But I do agree, this isn’t going away soon. Bought another big jar of popcorn!