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Jeff Sessions Gives Andy McCabe the Boot, May Deny Him FBI Pension
by IAN MASON
The Associated Press
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, acting on the recommendation of the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe Friday.
By dismissing McCabe – who was set to retire at the end of the month – before Sunday, Sessions may have jeopardized McCabe’s ability to draw a pension. Speculation Sessions might make this move has stirred since the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, which is yet to be publicly disclosed, was reported to have recommend McCabe be fired over his handling of press disclosures during his investigation of the Clinton Foundation. The OPR, upon reviewing the IG’s report, issued a recommendation to fire McCabe.
Attorney General Sessions issued the following statement, announcing his decision:
After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.
The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR proposal stated, “all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.”
Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.
McCabe reportedly already had stepped down from his number two spot at the FBI following the House Intelligence Committee’s review of a memo dealing with, among other things, McCabe’s handling of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant application.
***Update***
Andrew McCabe has responded with a statement:
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I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City. I have spent the second half of my career focusing on national security issues and protecting this country from terrorism. I served in some of the most challenging, demanding investigative and leadership roles in the FBI. And I was privileged to serve as Deputy Director during a particularly tough time.
For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to this country. Articles too numerous to count have leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us. The president’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about it. No more. The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau and to make it clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed. The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the same type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that
surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them. But looking at that in isolation completely misses the big picture. The big picture is a tale of what can happen when law enforcement is politicized, public servants are attacked, and people who are supposed to cherish and protect our institutions become instruments for damaging those institutions and people. Here is the reality: I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey. The release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the House Intelligence Committee revealed that I would corroborate former Director Comey’s accounts of his discussions with the President. The OIG’s focus on me and this report became a part of an unprecedented effort by the Administration, driven by the President himself, to remove me from my position, destroy my reputation, and possibly strip me of a pension that I worked 21 years to earn. The accelerated release of the report, and the punitive actions taken in response, make sense only when viewed through this lens. Thursday’s comments from the White House are just the latest example of this. This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally. It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special Counsel’s work. I have always prided myself on serving my country with distinction and integrity, and I have always encouraged those around me to do the same. Just ask them. To have my career end in this way, and to be accused of lacking candor when at worst I was distracted in the misty fo chaotic events, is incredibly disappointing and unfair. But it will not erase the important work I was prevailed to be a part of, the results of which will in the end be revealed for the country to see. I have unfailing faith in the men and women of the FBI and I am confident that their efforts to seek justice will not be deterred. |
Father Of Parkland Victim Hits Walkout Students With Bombshell Message ---
A Lesson For All Of Us
By Chris Agee
As students across the nation organized a school walkout this week to commemorate the passage of one month since a deadly shooting left 17 dead at a Florida high school, the father of one victim offered his advice to the young demonstrators determined to reduce gun violence.
“Instead of walking out of school on March 14, encourage students to walk up,” Ryan Petty tweeted earlier this week.
His daughter, Alaina, was among those killed when a gunman opened fire on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last month.
“Instead of walking out of school on March 14, encourage students to walk up,” Ryan Petty tweeted earlier this week.
His daughter, Alaina, was among those killed when a gunman opened fire on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland last month.
Ryan Petty@rpettyThe #March4OurLives supporters will accomplish only two things. 1. They'll exercise their 1st Amendment right. 2. They'll get a little exercise. If you really want to stop the next school shooter #walkupnotout
2:45 PM - Mar 13, 2018
According to the grieving father, a walkout will provide participants with an opportunity to exercise their bodies and their constitutional rights. However, he suggested a more significant reaction would include reaching out to their peers in kindness and acceptance.
Petty encouraged students to “walk up to the kid who sits a lone (sic) and invite him to sit with your group” and similarly approach others in need of positive interaction.
His post mentioned “the kid who sits quietly in the corner of the room” and “the kid who causes disturbances in class” as the types of children who could be helped by a compassionate classmate.
In general, Petty stressed the pursuit of unity over division as a key step toward realizing the ultimate goal of a safer society.
“Walk up to your teachers and thank them; walk up to someone who has different views than you and get to know them — you may be surprised at how much you have in common,” he wrote.
The post ended with a call to action Petty framed as a meaningful way to memorialize the lives lost last month in Parkland.
“Build on that foundation instead of casting stones,” he wrote. “I challenge students to find 14 students and 3 adults to walk up to and say something nice in honor of those who died in FL on the 14 of March. But you can start practicing now!”
Students Turn Criminal… Security Cameras Show What Kids Really Did During Walkout
BY JOE SAUNDERS
Here’s the side of student “activism” the national media isn’t talking about.
While high school students around the country were taking part in organized, astroturf protests demanding stricter gun laws on Wednesday, a mob of teenagers in Chicago were treating a local Walmart to an up-close and personal look at how strongly they felt about the issue.
Students who were allowed to leave class at Simeon Career Academy on Chicago’s South Side went on a rampage at a neighboring Walmart, attacking product displays, strewing items across the store’s aisles and breaking open packages, according to WFLD, Fox 32 in Chicago.
And, of course, stealing things.
The media started hyping the student walkout as some kind of new incarnation of the civil rights movement even before it happened. Liberal propaganda organs like The New York Times were publishing pieces comparing it to the famous “children’s crusade” in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
Let’s just say it didn’t live up to the billing.
In fact, the Chicago rampage looked a lot like the kind of looting that accompanied those famed “peaceful protests” in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, when an earlier incarnation of the new civil rights movement was being hailed by the national media.
This is what it looked like in real time:
Replying to @RealRedElephant
Exclusive security footage of the student rampage through Walmart during the #NationalStudentWalkout protest in Chicago pic.twitter.com/8RLqa4iup9
Exclusive security footage of the student rampage through Walmart during the #NationalStudentWalkout protest in Chicago pic.twitter.com/8RLqa4iup9
The Red Elephants 
@RealRedElephantHere is expanded footage of the walkout protesters trashing the Chicago Walmart pic.twitter.com/lnVsp8h9sD
Imagine being a shopper in the store when that herd of “student activists” came rampaging through.
The only wonder it that no one got hurt.
This is what the aftermath looked like.
The only wonder it that no one got hurt.
This is what the aftermath looked like.
Chicago Students From Simeon High School Trash Walmart during the #NatioanalStudentWalkout protest.Walmart employees from the store tell us that they threw smoke bombs and that they also heard several gun shots during the rampage.
Story developing...
Story developing...
11:43 PM - Mar 15, 2018
It was a disgrace, of course. It was also utterly predictable.
It’s just as predictable that incidents like this weren’t getting the attention they deserve — just like it was predictable that the national media would ignore incidents of school administrators harassing students who didn’t share the anti-gun hysteria.
In fact, the Chicago incident merited one sentence of coverage in a lengthy Chicago Tribune story about the walkout. Buried 20 paragraphs into a 37-paragraph story were the words:
“In Chicago, police were notified about a group of students who looted the Walmart at 8300 S. Stewart Ave., according to a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department.”
It doesn’t get any more anodyne than that — note the passive voice “police were notified,” as though there was even a doubt that it happened.
But it did happen — and more. Walmart wasn’t the only store in the area that was hit, according to other businesses interviewed by the Blue Lives Matter website.
All the liberal propaganda in the world isn’t going to change the fact that Americans know their rights.
That includes the right of self-protection against rampaging mobs of student “activists” who decide that being let out of school is license to attack their own community.
It was a disgrace, of course. It was also utterly predictable.
It’s just as predictable that incidents like this weren’t getting the attention they deserve — just like it was predictable that the national media would ignore incidents of school administrators harassing students who didn’t share the anti-gun hysteria.
In fact, the Chicago incident merited one sentence of coverage in a lengthy Chicago Tribune story about the walkout. Buried 20 paragraphs into a 37-paragraph story were the words:
“In Chicago, police were notified about a group of students who looted the Walmart at 8300 S. Stewart Ave., according to a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department.”
It doesn’t get any more anodyne than that — note the passive voice “police were notified,” as though there was even a doubt that it happened.
But it did happen — and more. Walmart wasn’t the only store in the area that was hit, according to other businesses interviewed by the Blue Lives Matter website.
All the liberal propaganda in the world isn’t going to change the fact that Americans know their rights.
That includes the right of self-protection against rampaging mobs of student “activists” who decide that being let out of school is license to attack their own community.
Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith Calls American Politics ‘Weird and Creepy’
by NATE CHURCH
In a Time magazine interview published Thursday, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith said Fox News pundits are there “strictly to be entertaining,” but don’t “really have rules.”
Titled “Shep Smith Has the Hardest Job on Fox News,” Smith’s interview with Time‘s Daniel D’Addario took a candid look at the 54-year-old anchor’s life and career in the era of President Donald Trump and, notably, the difference between his work versus those of his colleagues. Shepard Smith has been with Fox News since it launched in 1996, and if a solid multi-year contract renewal is any indication, he will be there for a long time to come.
“We work for different reporting chains,” Smith explained. “We have different rules. They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion,” Smith said. Frankly, Smith just is not all that interested. He explained that he “[doesn’t] really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy.”
Moreover, Smith does not see himself as a particularly political person. While “there are people who come at everything in a political way,” Smith does not see himself as one of them. Despite criticism of his injection of personal politics into his reporting, he said that he has “never really liked politics.” Specifically: “I’ve always said that I thought politics in America was weird and creepy, and lacked a connection to reality.”
Gun Owners of America: ‘No Guns Allowed’ Signs Less Effective than Teachers that Shoot Back
by AWR HAWKINS
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
During the March 15 airing of Breitbart News Daily, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt stressed that students need more protection than that which comes from a “No Guns Allowed” sign.
Pratt was reacting to the left’s two-prong approach of keeping teachers defenseless while trusting criminals will obey signs that say guns are not allowed on campus.
He suggested this same approach is being demonstrated by Congress as a whole, inasmuch as they just voted to spend incredible amounts of money on new school security measures while overlooking the “cheaper” proven solution, which is armed teachers.
Utah has been arming teachers since 1995, and when I say arming teachers I mean concealed carry holders…are allowed to bring [guns] into school rather than being told, ‘No, you can’t have them here.’ And so there’s never been a school shooting in Utah. And Ohio is training teachers, it’s actually a private organization that’s training the teachers. There are, depending on the laws and how you look at the them, anywhere from 12 to 25 states that are already to some degree allowing teachers to be armed in schools.
While Pratt stressed that teachers should under no circumstance carry unless state/local law allows, he did note that now is the time to change laws so more teachers can be armed for self-defense.
He added, “We protect our President, Congressmen, and banks with guns, why is it that we protect our schools with just a sign that says, ‘No Guns Allowed’? That doesn’t work.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Shepard Smith Turns Against His Own Network And Sean Hannity Unloads On Him
BY CILLIAN ZEAL
Things are getting uglier after Fox News’ Shepard Smith unloaded on his own network, and now even Fox News’ Sean Hannity is joining the fight, according to The Washington Times.
In a series of tweets Friday, Hannity said that Smith “is clueless about what we do.”
The remarks came after an interview published in Time Magazine in which Smith, a noted liberal who anchors the news desk at the network, said that the news division and the channel’s punditry “serve different masters.”
“We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules,” Smith said.
“They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion. I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy.”
In a series of tweets, Hannity lambasted Smith for his characterization of what his show does.
“While Shep is a friend with political views I do not share, and great at breaking news, he is clueless about what we do every day,” Hannity tweeted Friday.
In a series of tweets Friday, Hannity said that Smith “is clueless about what we do.”
The remarks came after an interview published in Time Magazine in which Smith, a noted liberal who anchors the news desk at the network, said that the news division and the channel’s punditry “serve different masters.”
“We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules,” Smith said.
“They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. They can say whatever they want. If it’s their opinion. I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming. I’m busy.”
In a series of tweets, Hannity lambasted Smith for his characterization of what his show does.
“While Shep is a friend with political views I do not share, and great at breaking news, he is clueless about what we do every day,” Hannity tweeted Friday.
“Hannity breaks news daily-Warrant on a Trump assoc, the unmasking scandal, leaking intel, Fisa abuse, HRC lawbreaking, dossier and more REAL NEWS! 9p!”
Sean Hannity✔@seanhannityWhile Shep is a friend with political views I do not share, and great at breaking news, he is clueless about what we do every day. Hannity breaks news daily-Warrant on a Trump assoc, the unmasking scandal, leaking intel, Fisa abuse, HRC lawbreaking, dossier and more REAL NEWS! 9p https://twitter.com/thehill/status/974670902368571393 …
12:44 PM - Mar 16, 2018
Hannity’s remarks came after another host, Laura Ingraham, called Smith’s statements “inaccurate and inconsiderate.”
Always liked Shep, but his comments were inconsiderate & inaccurate. The hard working team at the Ingraham Angle does real reporting, develops impt sources and scores big interviews. Very proud of them. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/974670902368571393 …
1:25 PM - Mar 16, 2018
“Always liked Shep, but his comments were inconsiderate & inaccurate. The hard working team at the Ingraham Angle does real reporting, develops impt sources and scores big interviews. Very proud of them,” Ingraham tweeted, according to The Hill.
Smith is currently taking a well-timed vacation from the network, joking around that “everything will be peachy-keen & hunky-dory” upon his return.
“I have the airline tickets. It’s been booked for awhile,” Smith joked, making reference to other “vacations” that seem to mysteriously occur when other Fox hosts find themselves in trouble.
We can say this much: things will be peachy-keen while he’s gone.
“Always liked Shep, but his comments were inconsiderate & inaccurate. The hard working team at the Ingraham Angle does real reporting, develops impt sources and scores big interviews. Very proud of them,” Ingraham tweeted, according to The Hill.
Smith is currently taking a well-timed vacation from the network, joking around that “everything will be peachy-keen & hunky-dory” upon his return.
“I have the airline tickets. It’s been booked for awhile,” Smith joked, making reference to other “vacations” that seem to mysteriously occur when other Fox hosts find themselves in trouble.
We can say this much: things will be peachy-keen while he’s gone.
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