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The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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acbytesla said:
Doesn't matter. Its a Federal job and a Federal pension.
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McCabe is certainly a Special Schedule employed as are most people in the top rungs of an agency. They get high pay,and all the benefits of a regular schedule employee, but they don't have the protections..they serve "at the pleasure of the President".
 
2018 when even Trey Gowdy, of the nearly endless Benghazi investigations fame, is tired of GOP bad faith:

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dudalb said:
McCabe is certainly a Special Schedule employed as are most people in the top rungs of an agency. They get high pay,and all the benefits of a regular schedule employee, but they don't have the protections..they serve "at the pleasure of the President".
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Honestly, I don't know. But a former federal official with knowledge of pension rules believes that McCabe only needs to work one more day to get his pension.
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.)
 
The Big Dog said:
Answering the phones does not sound like a law enforcement position.
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Congress Critters have broad authority to hire people to work on their staffs. The positions count as federal employment for retirement purposes. OPM will still take the average of his highest earning three years to determine his pension.
 
Bob001 said:
People will listen to him about Trump. The question is whether he can win a wrongful termination action. Maybe, maybe not.
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Take the pension, write the tell-all book, and apologize profusely to Clinton and the country in said book. :thumbsup:
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Take the pension, write the tell-all book, and apologize profusely to Clinton and the country in said book. :thumbsup:
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I don't think he has anything to apologize to Clinton for. It would weaken his case against Trump if he gives anyone reason to think he's pro-Clinton. Maybe he'll dish on both of them.
 
Oystein said:
And that is EXACTLY the problem. There is no evidence that he deserved being pooped on by the pooper in chief.
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No, even if the reason he was fired were true, the punishment is wholly out of proportion to the offense. Bob's challenge is baseless as it so often is.
 
Bob001 said:
I don't think he has anything to apologize to Clinton for. ...
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The hell he doesn't!!

Both Comey and McCabe handled the Clinton investigations with unprecedented bias against Clinton.

The irony of this crap: WA Po: Report said to fault FBI’s former No. 2 for approving improper media disclosure, misleading inspector general. The disclosure (aka leak) was that the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation.
During that work, inspector general investigators found that McCabe had authorized the disclosure of information to the Wall Street Journal for an October 2016 story that examined feuding inside the FBI and Justice Department around the handling of a separate investigation into Clinton’s family foundation, two people familiar with the case said.
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The McCabe offense was indeed offensive, just like Comey's offense of discussing Clinton's email server investigation in public while keeping the investigation of the Trump campaign secret. Part of me wants to say **** these ********, they got the POTUS they wanted. And we're all suffering the consequences.

Going back further, the reason the FBI was investigating the Clinton Foundation was almost entirely partisan based. There were more than a few FBI investigators so biased against Clinton they readily bought into the outright lies and misleading BS in the book, Clinton Cash. The book used misleading assertions and outright falsehoods supposedly establishing quid pro quo between donations to the Clinton Foundation and actions Clinton took as Secretary of State in the donors' favor.

The reason the investigation went nowhere, to the ire of those biased FBI investigators, is because there was no actual evidence of any quid pro quo. The timing of donations the book claimed were connected didn't match up at all. Many of the decisions attributed to Clinton were not made by her. And there were many supposedly corrupt donations to the Foundation that had actual, clearly not corrupt, charitable goals. The foundation has an excellent independent rating for the donated money going to the charities intended.

I don't see how admitting you were biased against Clinton makes you look like you were pro-Clinton.
 
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The Big Dog said:
he was fired pursuant to the recommendation of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz who was appointed by Obama.

Uh oh, that means what exactly in the skeptics calculus of Trump is teh liar?
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Absolutely nothing, naturally. Nobody would assume he's a Trump appointee anyway; what with the golfing and TV and twitter when could Trump possibly find the time? He hasn't even appointed an Ambassador to South Korea, which surely must have priority over an obscure DoJ position.
 
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