FBI Deputy Chief McCabe Gets Fired

WASHINGTON —  President Trump and fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe have unleashed a war of words over McCabe's abrupt dismissal, with the president calling it a "great day" and the FBI official saying he would no longer remain silent after a "relenting assault" by Trump and other critics on his reputation and service.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced late Friday that he fired McCabe effective immediately — barely 48 hours before his retirement benefits would have set in after 21 years of service with the FBI. McCabe, who had announced his intention to resign in January, was fired from the agency in the midst of a review into the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of State.  Sessions, in a statement, said McCabe's firing was the result of an "extensive and fair" probe of alleged misconduct, which concluded that he had made "an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions."  Just yesterday the White House Press secretary said there wouldn’t be any more firings.  It was all “fake news” of an impending purge.   It turns out Trump’s words didn’t even last one day.  This act of firing of an FBI agent didn’t hold true for one day.  It’s all because this guy was conscientious in performing his job.   Chris Matthews has a theory that Trump is in the process of systematically weeding out all of the qualified and stable people in his adminis-tration and leaving only synchophants who are basically empty headed yes men.  Trump has also indicated he goes for people who “look like” executives, like out of central casting. 

In other news Baine capital is the firm responsible for Toys-R-Us going bankrupt.  This is due to changes in “Venture Capital” regulations passed during the Reagan administration.  It’s a guaranteed win for these vulture capitalists.  They can pretty much do what they want and still loot a lot of money.   Changing these laws should be a priority of any democratic congress. 

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s election interference.

Reached for comment by email about the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Dowd sent The Daily Beast the text of Trump’s most recent tweet on the subject, which applauded the dismissal. “I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe’s boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier,” Dowd then wrote.

In making the statement, a senior member of Trump's legal team joins the calls from his base to end the probe. As late as mid-December, another Trump lawyer, Ty Cobb, had brushed aside talk of stopped Mueller’s investigation, stressing that there was "no consideration at the White House of terminating the special counsel." The president himself has called the Mueller probe a “witch hunt,” but has not publicly urged Rosenstein to shutter it.  When The Daily Beast initially asked Dowd if he was speaking on behalf of the president, he answered, “Yes as his counsel.”  After publication of this story, however, Dowd emailed to say he was actually speaking in his personal capacity, and not on the president’s behalf.

I was thinking this morning that if I croaked suddenly what would my legacy be?  Maybe I better leave somebody material to explain all my writings and different types of writing and the motives for each of them.  Leo Le Port says that even a CD on Voyagers I and II may not be sufficient as a way of preserving stuff.  What if they don't understand the directions for playing it or the algerithms involved.  Of course using anything magnetic like disk or tape would be out of the question with all these magnetic storms and cosmic radiation in space.  Hopefully the CD wouldn't rust in space.  I've heard of CD's rusting.  In my writings I refer to Mal Evans- - who died in early 1976 and he was the Beatles' road manager and later got an executive position with Apple or whatever but he was inferior to Neil Asphenol.   Then I refer to Stewart Sutcliffe, who was the deceast bass player for the Beatles who died in April of 1962.  I'd have to explain how he got the nickname "Bones" from us, and the name wasn't my doing but was from a housemate and the name was for a black and white cat that Stu was reincarnated as.  And I could explain "Greenie", which is my nickname for the "Rock and Roll" persona of John Lennon from the old days, who sang all of the classic Beatle rockers.  I was going to go into more detail but maybe I'm boring you already.