To be vested (click here) (eligible to receive your retirement benefits from the Basic Benefit plan if you leave Federal service before retiring), you must have at least 5 years of creditable civilian service.
In this June 7, 2017, file photo, then-FBI acting director Andrew McCabe listens during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCabe is making his case at the Justice Department for why he should not be fired. McCabe was inside the Justice Department building March 15, 2018. A person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about it said McCabe was pleading his case against termination. Disciplinary officials at the FBI have recommended that the Justice Department fire McCabe ahead of his scheduled retirement Sunday.The evidence against any validity to the firing of Mr. McCabe doesn't exist.
March 15, 2018
...An inspector general report (click here) that has not yet been released is expected to conclude that McCabe authorized FBI officials to speak with a Wall Street Journal reporter for an October 2016 story about differing views within the FBI and Justice Department on how aggressively the Clinton Foundation should be investigated. The report is also expected to allege that McCabe was not forthcoming with investigators with the inspector general's office about that media leak, something McCabe denies.
McCabe, who joined the FBI in 1996, abruptly went on leave from his deputy director's job in January. He served for several months as the bureau's acting director following the firing last May of Director James Comey.
Trump has repeatedly singled out McCabe in arguing that FBI leadership is biased against him. He has pointed to campaign contributions that McCabe's wife received during a failed run for the Virginia state Senate from the political action committee of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close Hillary Clinton ally....
Slate:
...The allegations (click here) revolve around disclosures to The Wall Street Journal, which revealed in October 2016 a dispute between the F.B.I. and Justice Department over how to proceed in an investigation into the Clinton family’s foundation. The article said that the Justice Department would not authorize subpoenas in the case. Some F.B.I. agents, the article said, believed that Mr. McCabe had put the brakes on the investigation. Others rejected that notion. …
In the Journal story, a person described as close to Mr. McCabe pushed back on the notion that he had tried to shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation. To the contrary, the person described a tense conversation with the Justice Department in which Mr. McCabe insisted his agents had the authority to keep investigating.
The article was a negative one for the Clinton campaign....
Trump is running game on them to discredit any testimony regarding the Mueller investigation. At the very most this is an ethical issue and not a crime. In no way do the actions of Comey or McCabe rise to the level of employment and/or their EARNED benefits.
Former Director McCabe needs to remain available to testimony as Former Director Comey did. It is the country on the line. It is vital Mr. McCabe take on the challenge of bringing the truth to the country.
Today, March 16, 2018, there is absolutely no evidence that carries this level of ridicule and punishment.
October 19, 2018
By Sam Frizell
FBI Director James Comey (click here) has come under a hail of criticism from Democrats, Republicans and government officials for his public announcement on Friday that his agency is re-examining Hillary Clinton’s email investigation 11 days before the election.
Comey’s announcement on Friday — little more than a week before the Nov. 8 presidential election — has shaken the race between Clinton and Donald Trump, and potentially boosted Republican chances to hold its majorities in Congress.
Within 24 hours, Clinton and her top aides, as well as top Republicans and government officials are questioning Comey’s decision in a politically charged environment ahead of a bitter general election.
The strongest criticism has come from Clinton and her campaign, which is struggling to regain its footing....
This is making the country less safe. The people being dismissed that are career FBI, CIA or military can't replaced overnight. It isn't like hiring more people to change bedding at a Trump hotel. This is crazy. These are ethical violations at the most regardless the effect on the USA elections. Unless someone has the goods on these guys that they are connected to Russia as double agents, this government over reach.
By Max Kutner
FBI-LA Assistant Director (click here) in Charge David Bowdich with Associate Regional Director Ariella Schusterman.
...“Great guy,” said Katherine Schweit, a retired FBI executive. “He’s well respected.”
We know where any issue of impeachment lies. The conservative commentators came before the Republican lawmakers in calling for a purge of the Comey era FBI.
...But Republican lawmakers and conservative commentators (click here) who have called for a “purge” of the bureau’s Comey-era officials might be disappointed, given his former proximity to Comey and McCabe. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee last June, Comey said he had spoken to senior colleagues including Bowdich about President Donald Trump’s allegedly asking Comey to have the FBI back off its probe into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.
Because of that apparent conversation, and because he was the No. 3 official under Comey, Bowdich is a potential witness into whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey. Last June, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested that the committee interview Bowdich and other FBI officials as the panel investigated Comey’s termination.
Before his departure, McCabe told Bowdich and other senior employees that they might have to serve as witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign, Vox reported in August....
