Andrew McCabe was just offered a job by a congressman so he can get his full retirement. And it just might work.
That's one way of protesting Andrew McCabe's firing as deputy FBI director, roughly a day before he was set to retire: At least one Democratic congressman has offered McCabe a temporary job so he can get full retirement benefits — and McCabe appears to be considering.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) announced Saturday afternoon that he has offered McCabe a job to work on election security in his office, “so that he can reach the needed length of service” to retire.
“My offer of employment to Mr. McCabe is a legitimate offer to work on election security,” Pocan said in a statement. “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of American democracy and both Republicans and Democrats should be concerned about election integrity.”
A spokeswoman for McCabe, Melissa Schwartz, didn't immediately rule out a job with one of the most liberal members of Congress, which might only need to last for a day or so for him to get his full retirement benefits: “We are considering all options.”
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) tweeted that he'd consider hiring McCabe, too.
It's not immediately clear if getting fired from the FBI on a Friday and going to work on Capitol Hill on a Monday would solve McCabe's problems for certain, though at least one former federal official with knowledge of retirement rules says it probably would.
McCabe's team is confident that he had at least 20 years of law enforcement work under his belt — defined as carrying a weapon or supervising people who do — which made him eligible to retire on his 50th birthday on Sunday, with full retirement benefits.
With those 20 years, he would need to just go to work with the federal government for another day or so in any job he pleases, whether that's as a election security analyst for a Wisconsin congressman or a typist for a day, to get full benefits, said the former official who spoke to The Fix. The job doesn't matter so much as the fact that he's working within the federal government with the same retirement benefits until or after his 50th birthday. (Though this former official stressed that it would probably look more ethical if McCabe worked for at least a pay period rather than just one day.)
McCabe began working at the FBI's New York field office in 1996, was promoted to a supervisor position at the FBI's headquarters in 2006, and held various jobs at the bureau until 2016, when he was named deputy director. His final job at the FBI was an executive perch that likely doesn't count toward his law enforcement job, said the former retirement official.
McCabe stepped down from his FBI job in January amid attacks from President Trump, but he had been using up accumulated leave to get to his birthday to receive full retirement benefits — a move Trump attacked him for on Twitter after The Washington Post reported his plans.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe late Friday night, about 26 hours before McCabe's retirement, citing an inspector general report from the Justice Department that had found “that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
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Trump thinks he clever, but he’s clearly the least intelligent piece of shit in DC.
Democrats are so clever. That's why they lost the election and still insist on doubling down on their own arrogance. That's why CNN ratings keep dropping, deep state leftists keep getting exposed and Hillary keeps making a fool of herself.
Republicans are losing elections faster than than they can even comprehend them. Trump ensured a win for Lamb just by opening his cock sucker and speaking about that election.
When you get back a substantial amount of the over 1000 seats you lost under Obama, get back to us.
A mere handful of seats means very little.
The only Dems who are winning are those running as far from Pelosi as they can get. This is actually starting a civil war within the Democratic ranks between the far left and the Blue Dogs that got kicked out in the Obama years.
Yeah, you guys are doing a bang up job.
Republican who called Parkland teen a ‘skinhead lesbian’ drops out of Maine House race
One seat.
I realize that is cause for celebration form Dems, seeing how little they have got to do over the last 8 years or so.
GEE, then why did Democrats have to conduct an autopsy to find out why the least intelligent man in DC beat the heavily-favored pick of the DNC?
McCabe needs to be more worried about fighting the felony charges that will be issued forthwith.
You listen and watch too much Right Wing BS..What felony charges, more trumped us charges by the GOP Alt Right???
U.S. president and middle-school bully Donald Trump reportedly had some harsh words for the wife of now-former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.
According to NBC , Trump was furious when he saw video of James Comey boarding a government-funded plane from Los Angeles to Washington, a day after he was fired as director of the FBI. When he called McCabe, then the acting director of the bureau, demanding to know why Comey had been allowed to fly on an FBI plane, McCabe reportedly told the president that although he had not been asked about the decision, he would have approved it.
Then, per NBC :
Stupid is as stupid does …
Keep talkin', Great White Dope (Jess Willard clone).
Trump thinks he is running his mom/pop real estate firm in NYC where they hire today and fire the next day..
You have to admit though, he was smart enough to beat the falling down booze hag hillaryious Hillary Clinton.
I've lost count with the number of times conservatives go to 'Hillary!!'. Do you even realize you are doing it? Whenever you all see something about Trump you don't want to face or answer to, you go straight to your deflection comfort zone. She has nothing to do with anything, she lost, she is a private citizen that you just can't quit. Sad.
I have better things to do than keep a tally of how many times Hillaryious Hillary is mentioned. But It still doesn't change the fact She lost and Trump won. How long do you think the crybaby Liberals will be screaming "Not my President" and drooling for a impeachment?
So the left is proud to hire somebody who abused his position to try to manipulate an election and lead an attempted coup with other corrupt intelligence officials. The only benefits he should get is food and board at a federal prison.
And lefties wonder why nobody without TDS believes their paranoid rants.
Your President* will eventually be impeached for his efforts to manipulate an election.
He is your President, too--IF you are an American.
A true American is focused on removing the least qualified person in this country who ever set foot in the Oval Office.
You are starting to sound like Maxine Waters.
And well over half of this country.
But are you even an American?
I get confused because everyone else in the world seems to know that Trump is President of the US, except some left wing nut jobs who keep claiming, for some reason not associated with intelligence or fact, that Trump isn't their President.
Hopefully, that many Americans will NEVER sound like that waste of human flesh that goes by Maxine Waters.
Nah...some of the idiots think that the Russians actually went in and changed votes in the machines and inside sealed ballots.
What efforts? You got alternative facts that we don't know about?
Trump supporters would have elected David Duke for president. Would I not be an American if I spoke honestly about what kind of despicable decision that was? There’s a flag in my yard for a reason. Part of being an American is having genuine concern for your country. This dirtbag has no business being in the position he is in.
Don’t worry, Mueller will tell you all about it in due time.
Careful. You could be called a racist like the President for insulting the "low IQ" demographic.
Isn't that a proven Democrat characteristic to elect and support the KKK members?
"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident ..."
So which qualification is Trump missing?
That would be Obama, and he's gone. Not a bit qualified.
Which is why I did everything I could to keep Hillary Clinton out of the White House. I am very pleased that I was successful!
Just because he met the qualifications, does not mean he is qualified.
Um...it does
That dingbat was calling for Trump's impeachment before his inauguration.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maxine+waters+impeach+45
Yes, it does. Per the US Constitution, the rules are very simple: age 35 and a natural born citizen. Even Obama qualified.
What efforts? You got alternative facts that we don't know about?
Basis for IMPEACHMENT of Trump.
1. During a dinner at the White House on Jan. 27, 2017, Trump asked for a pledge of “loyalty” from James Comey, then the F.B.I. director, who was overseeing the investigation of the Trump campaign.
And …
2. On Feb. 14, Trump directed several other officials to leave the Oval Office so he could speak privately with Comey. He then told Comey to “let this go,” referring to the investigation of Michael Flynn, who had resigned the previous day as Trump’s national security adviser.
3. On March 22, Trump directed several other officials to leave a White House briefing so he could speak privately with Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director. Trump asked them to persuade Comey to back off investigating Flynn .
4. In March and April, Trump told Comey in phone calls that he wanted Comey to lift the ”cloud” of the investigation.
5. On May 9, Trump fired Comey as F.B.I. director. On May 10, Trump told Russian officials that the firing had “taken off” the “great pressure” of the Russia investigation. On May 11, he told NBC News that the firing was because of “this Russia thing.”
6. On May 17, shortly after hearing that the Justice Department had appointed Mueller to take over the Russia investigation, Trump berated Jeff Sessions , the attorney general. The appointment had caused the administration again to lose control over the investigation, and Trump accused Sessions of “disloyalty.”
7. In June, Trump explored several options to retake control . At one point, he ordered the firing of Mueller, before the White House counsel resisted.
8. On July 8, aboard Air Force One, Trump helped draft a false public statement for his son, Donald Trump Jr. The statement claimed that a 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer was about adoption policy. Trump Jr. later acknowledged that the meeting was to discuss damaging information the Russian government had about Hillary Clinton.
9. On July 26, in a tweet, Trump called for the firing of Andrew McCabe, the F.B.I.’s deputy director, a potential corroborating witness for Comey’s conversations with Trump. The tweet was part of Trump’s efforts , discussed with White House aides, to discredit F.B.I. officials.
10. Throughout, Trump (and this quotation comes from the Nixon article of impeachment) “made false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States.” Among other things, Trump repeatedly made untruthful statements about American intelligence agencies’ conclusions regarding Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
Obstruction of justice depends on a person’s intent — what legal experts often call “corrupt intent.” This list is so damning because it reveals Trump’s intent.
He has inserted himself into the details of a criminal investigation in ways that previous presidents rarely if ever did. (They left individual investigations to the attorney general.) And he has done so in ways that show he understands he’s doing something wrong. He has cleared the room before trying to influence the investigation. He directed his son to lie, and he himself has lied.
What a farce!
David Duke won ONE seat in a state legislature way back in 1989.
Surely you can do better than THAT!
And she STILL is. I think it's senility setting in.
A liberal Democrat wants to hire a unethical former official. Seems legit.
Yup always out to defy Trump. Not this time. The IG Report is expected to be devastating to McCabe. They have "a ton" on him. His difficulties are just beginning, some say that when he went down to Rosenstein's office to demand his pension, he threatened to take others down with him. This is really getting interesting.
BTW since he dosen't get the same punishment Flynn got, Trump has every ethical right to pardon Flynn
Yup always out to defy Trump. Not this time. The IG Report is expected to be devastating to McCabe.
Says who??Right Wing reporting about a devastating report??? lets see the report before assuming devastation...This firing was to destroy a man with 21 years of service to America, what has Trump and Family done to serve America other than giving themselves big tax cuts and conducting their personal financial businesses from the WH..Now, that's what I call a Swamp..
Birds of a feather.
The Democrats can't help but revel in their corruption. It's like watching something straight of the seminal TV show "The Wire". Corrupt politician gets caught doing corrupt things, but the party rewards them for keeping quiet with a lucrative position.
The FBI Office of Personal Responsibility recommended his firing for "serious misconduct," and the Democrats fall themselves to make sure he a comfy landing sport. It's a reward for services rendered to the Democrat Party, and the Democrats are brazen enough to celebrate how corrupt they are.
If Sessions will do his job we need a special counsel to investigate and indict Hussein Obama and the corrupt people in the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence agencies who conspired against Trump.
there’s a reason why Obama, Pelóri and others openly “guaranteed” Trump would not be elected.
We will see Justice when Obama, Lynch, Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Rhodes, Susan Rice, Strzok, his mistress, and others are all wearing orange jumpsuits at a federal prison
Wow - ladies and gentlemen, may I present the out edge of right wing fringe.
Live Or Die, where do you get your news and information? Your thoughts usually correspond to the sort of crap we see on fringe "conservative" web sites and conspiracy sites.
I've known Larry for years, and I'm still not sure if he is serious or just making the bad faith arguments Bob Nelson always talks about. He's quite intelligent, has good spelling and grammar, but he is the most insanely right wing person I've ever seen on these boards. If he's serious, he's flat out nuts.
Let me get this straight. A very liberal democrat wants to give McCabe a job so he can finish his time to receive a pension estimated to be worth 1.8 million over a lifetime, but this same liberal democrat voted against giving a tax cut worth a couple thousand dollars a year to 95 percent of Americans, and whose boss declared these bonuses and tax cuts "crumbs".
And America knows why liberalism is a failed cult.
And how much has 95% of the people received in their paycheck???$20.00 week while the President and his family pockets $Billions of dollars, yea, that sounds quite equitable..
People will get more of their money proportionally from their income. I don't expect to get the same tax savings that Trump does because I'm not worth billions. But I will gladly take what Pelosi calls "crumbs", which is still more than I ever got from Obama.
But I will gladly take what Pelosi calls "crumbs", which is still more than I ever got from Obama.
It is "Crumbs" all it did was push employees into a higher tax bracket, when Obama gave the Payroll tax holiday, where everyone paid less on their FICA, Conservatives complained, I did not like the payroll tax deductions because it interferes with the amount on Social Security Benefits, This Tax Scam was for the Benefit of Trump, his family and the Wealthy, what Did Gary Cohn do after the Tax Scam was passed, he immediately resigned at the talk of tariffs, nothing has been done about tariffs, get Cohn bolted, why not, he already wrote and had the tax scam passed, already a Millionaire, why stick around..
Tell you what...you get off your ass and become employed, work a lifetime at building a large business, then maybe even you can get millions, or even billions in tax relief. Keep mooching off us taxpayers, well, then, you know the rest.
While you are scratching your head trying to figure out what the word "employed" means, why are you defending someone who thinks it's OK to allow someone who was recommended by the FBI IG and the OPR to be fired to be hired for 2 or 3 days so he can receive his 1.8 million pension, but don't give a shit about those that are happy about the extra in their paychecks, no matter how large or small?
Liberalism truly is a disease and a cult that needs to go the way of attractive liberal women....extinct.
Tell you what...you get off your ass and become employed, work a lifetime at building a large business, then maybe even you can get millions, or even billions in tax relief. Keep mooching off us taxpayers, well, then, you know the rest.
Why the angry tone, I revealed something you never thought about, you think you got a tax break when all you got was scammed!!! You don't know anything about me, so I would say you are as ignorant and the one you voted for, he has all you conservatives by the tail..I would have an adjective for you but out of respect for Perri, I will refrain...
Liberalism truly is a disease and a cult that needs to go the way of attractive liberal women....extinct.
Analyze the average age of conservatives, they are mostly in their late 60's to 80's, now, analyze the age of what you call liberals, young, middle age and older, more educated and don't have to cling to their guns to have a conversation, NOW!!! Which group do you think is on the road to extinction???See if you can do the math..
Sorry to trigger you. Didn't mean to. You are right that liberals are generally in their twenties, but study after study has found that once these people become employed, have responsibilities, especially families, they then turn to conservatism because that is what promotes personal responsibility.
I bet if you take a poll of the liberals on here, most of them are in their 60s or 70s, leftovers from an era of free sex, acid drops and spitting on returning troops.
I bet if you take a poll of the liberals on here, most of them are in their 60s or 70s, leftovers from an era of free sex, acid drops and spitting on returning troops.
There you go demeaning people you do not know their life and life styles, that's what I have encountered among people who call themselves conservatives, there seem to be sort of unhealthy behavior that makes them feel better, while demeaning others, just like your tweeter in chief..totally sickening...do not respond to me until you learn respect...
I will respect that if you do the same...ta ta...
That is the MO of the right because many of those on the right don't know how to engage people who don't agree with their own ideology or beliefs in any kind of meaningful or respectful debate or discussion. They only know how to demean, denigrate, bully and verbally abuse others. Their mantra seems to be, that if you can't best them, just shoot from the lip and call it good.
Why are y'all Right Wingers upset???Is it because Democrats have maneuvered the Tweeter in chief???LOL!!!
have maneuvered the Tweeter in chief???LOL!!
Correction: Outmaneuvered..
If McCabe lied, then he should be separated from service. However, a separation can be through either a termination or retirement. Either way, he’d be out of the FBI. I think it’s unnecessarily cruel to destroy this man by denying him a retirement option less than two days before he’s eligible for it. I think the Congressman did the right thing.
I do agree that two days before retirement sucks, but if the IG and the OPR recommends he be fired and the full IG report comes out showing numerous violations that are deemed illegal, then this fool got what he deserved.
It is definitely necessary. The word has to be passed to the other employees of the FBI in no uncertain terms. "DO NOT LIE TO A JUDGE TO GET A WARRANT. DO NOT BECOME POLITICALLY INVOLVED IN ELECTIONS. IF YOU DO, THERE WILL BE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES".
Frankly, I don't think that the consequences are severe enough. He will undoubtedly face criminal charges along with several of his co-conspirators.
In the mind of most cops, there is nothing more despicable than a dirty cop.
I think the word can be passed without destroying him. He’s out of the FBI. That’s enough for me.
I think the Congressman hired someone who couldn't pass a background check just to squander taxpayer money.
And Trump hasn't? Where's your proof?
I’d squander a couple of days pay so he isn’t deprived of retirement. I’ve done this myself. You tell an employee he has two choices: either resign or be fired. If he’s eligible for retirement, then he has three choices. I don’t care which one he picks as long as he leaves.