Getting fired doesn’t mean you lose your retirement if you’re already vested, i.e., you already have the combination of age plus years of service to qualify for a pension. McCabe got screwed because he was one day shy of the age needed. Comey’s situation is tougher to sort out because he was in and out of government service on a few occasions. The HR folks would need to sort that one out.
ETA: I’m not familiar with the newer retirement system (FERS, as opposed to the old CSRS), but I believe McCabe didn’t lose his pension entirely. But instead of being able to start collecting a pension immediately, he’ll have to wait until he hits a certain age before he can collect. I believe that since he’s now 50, he will have to wait 6 or 7 years. So, he’s getting screwed out of a fair chunk of income.
I hope some day Mr. McCabe will confront the truth. If not for his buddy Comey he’d still have a job, there’d be no President Trump and no denigration of the FBI and DOJ. Not that the karma doesn’t please me.
Comey hadn’t been at the FBI long enough to qualify for retirement benefits. He was director for about 3 years and 8 months. Before that he’d spent 8 years in the private sector.
But before that, he’d been with U.S. attorney’s offices in various places during the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush W administrations. So, a lot of government service, but with some gaps.
Absolutely, but that is what I do not get. Why work so hard to be cruel? Independently of the personality disorder, the drive to do that is pretty extreme and might be questioned on it’s own. I guess what I am saying, in the realm of the Narcissist, does it actually add to the delusion? Is it productive for them, considering it is one avenue that can start people really beginning to question them.
I have no doubt you have a much better handle on pensions for US federal government service than I do. When McCabe was fired I looked up the pension requirements at the FBI and it seemed pretty explicit that to qualify you had to have 20 years continuos service, but that’s for agents, which Comey never was. Comey probably has 20 years at the DoJ if you add up the time at the various positions he held.
Yeah, the rules for the FBI aren’t quite the same as ordinary civilian service - for agents, it’s more like what you see in the military, or other law enforcement agencies. Murky stuff.
When I was a young adult and just entering the real workplace, I remember my dad telling me that there are two ways to make yourself look good. The first is to work hard and earn the respect of people. The other is to try to make others look bad.
Obviously no one in Fat Nixon’s family gave enough of a shit about him to ever have such talks but, even if they had, he is impervious to advice. His only way to make himself look, or feel, better is to try to make someone else look worse than he is.
His strategy may have succeeded in the primary but look at his audience. It’s becoming increasingly credible that it would not have succeeded in the general election without the massive assists from his puppet master including Mercer’s Cambridge Analytica.
@ralph_vonholst - I’m no fan of NK but they troll Fat Nixon better than most!
All of this is good stuff for McCabe. He is painting any attempt by Trump and his allies to call out McCabe for whatever it is the OIG report says he did as part of the smear campaign to intimidate a witness. The attempt to label McCabe as a corrupt official who was intending to smear Trump is thrown out the window. It also strikes me that the Trump approach has been an impeachment protection strategy as the GOPers in the House could smear McCabe in the political realm as a way to absolve Trump. However, if one believes (as I do) that Mueller is going for an indictment strategy, not an impeachment referral strategy, then Trump’s actions are legally counterproductive.
