| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Attorney General Jeff Sessions Is Trapped on the Horns of a Friday Dilemma |
| 2018-03-15 |
| h/t Instapundit Attorney General Jeff Sessions faces a dangerous decision with a deadline. Should he fire former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe within hours of his retirement Friday, and thereby likely deprive him of a lucrative lifetime federal pension ‐ or should he let McCabe’s week run out? If only the decision were so straightforward. There’s much more to the back story on this one. The dilemma was thrust upon Sessions earlier this week by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), which recommended that McCabe be terminated before his pension begins. Federal law allows civil service pensions to be denied for serious offenses, but once the checks start flowing it’s illegal to stop them. The OPR got involved after Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s investigators found that McCabe had lied to them about his actions in leaking information to the media about the FBI’s probe of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and address. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Dammit, g(r)omgoru! You know I adore you, but the rule is that after 2:00 p.m. ET the only things posted that day are active terror attacks. This should have been posted for tomorrow. All one need do is click on the Tomorrow button on the left side of the article box, or like in the news link box one can easily change the date to the next day and the time to 00:00. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-15 22:37 |
| #3 I personally think the criminations about McCabe that are in the IG report and the incidents about McCabe behavior after the election are bit more than leaking information to the press to present an agenda. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-15 22:34 |
| #2 The article makes a pretty fair case the Deep State?FBI wants him fired, to stir up more Trumpian controversy. He'd sue to get his pension, and the story would go on forever. McCabe has already been disgraced - forced out early - so he'll have to live the rest of his life as a CNN Analyst. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2018-03-15 18:26 |
| #1 Think well Jeff. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-15 17:26 |