I guess Trump just wanted McCabe to retire early and spend more time with his “loser” wife.
Sure is a good thing the inspector general isn’t looking into repeated leaking of ongoing investigations by a rogue faction within the new york office and whether any of those people are still in positions to do damage to the country.
Here’s the IG’s bio. Not a Trump appointee. Only thing I can guess at the moment is I’ve seen perfectly honorable people go back and forth about a recusal when it’s in a gray area. That may have been the situation and they requested a review that could be used against him if it were equivocal. It doesn’t take much ammo for these people when they’re out to get you.
This has been noted by Louise Mensch and the Hoarse Whisperer as a good thing, as, like Mueller with Strzok and his texts, they have a distraction out of the way and Wray was able to quickly fill the position with an even tougher, no nonsense FBI pro. Bowditch was also one of the officials who Comey confided in. Trump thinks he got his scalp, but now he can’t bitch about Bowditch.
tthread- https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/958168290609782784
Allegations that Department and FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public information; and
re: McCabe (thread)
Even “not a trump appointee” doesn’t mean “not a conservative stickler”. And of course part of the problem is that “appearance of a conflict of interest” is the standard, which means you have to take into account the most paranoid nutbar with a mouthpiece.
But what I don’t understand about this explanation is that we’re talking about all of a couple of months. Moving someone to a different job versus leave-to-retirement seems like a distinction without a difference for that kind of time.
And yet (unless that investigation is still running) what we’re getting is about who should have recused themselves.
Right.
And his report, plus its effect on Wray’s views and therefore on McCabe’s career, have been a subject of discussion in DC for weeks.
One hopes the report will be explained, if not released, to the public.
It’s tantamount to a firing. They harassed him until he left. It makes the boss man happy.
The IG was appointed in 2012. Most of the Obama appointments seemed very solid. But the most honorable, competent IG might still say in a report that recusal in the Clinton thing might have been a way to go. That’s all it would take.
Are they looking into Trump’s refusal to divest of or put in a blind trust his business interests.
Unless the Tait thread is wrong, McCabe got caught in a Wray didn’t ‘hire’ him scenario. Now ‘45’ should take the McCabe win and move on, but because its Trump…
Republicans hold the White House and Congress. Does this mean that spouses, or siblings/parents/children/grandparents, of all employess of the FBI and DOJ should be closely scrutinized should they run for a public office as a Democrat? Chris Wray’s wife, Helen Garrison Howell, is a Yale graduate. She lives in Georgia. If she ran for Senate as a Democrat would Chris Wray have to resign, or ask to be reassigned to an innocuous position, in order to wall off his decisions from allegations of impropriety? Since when the hell is it bad for the spouse or other close relative of a government employee to participate in government and run for an elective office? Has anyone accused Elaine Chao of being incapable of rendering unbiased decisions running the Department of Transportation because her husband leads the Senate? WTF?
I’m not really sure why this article chose (what I see as) misleading verbiage on this point:
McCabe’s departure from the bureau was expected, but not until March, when he would qualify for his full government pension. His surprise decision to leave the FBI on Monday raised questions about pressure he faced to step away from his top position within the bureau.
McCabe will still get his full government pension. He is still “at” the FBI, technically, until March. From CNN:
People close to retirement do this all the time, both in government and private-sector jobs. It might still be a bit odd for him to resign his position early, but it’s not odd for him to take the last couple of months as earned leave.
Sounds like the IG Office is throughly corrupted. Who is running that office? How come there is no names given in this article on who was issuing the IG “report”…?
Appearance of conflict certainly does not seem to apply to Trump and almost all of his minions.
Such is the nature of Trump’s oafish maleficence that any such report is necessarily tainted.
It will be the work of my generation to attempt to rebuild the institutional trust these clowns have thrown down and trod upon.
So who will Trump nominate as the new FBI director?
Now that Wray’s carried through on his courageous threat to resign if McCabe were forced out.
Oh, wait a minute…
no idea, but Ditka is free