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Donald Trump tried to destroy Andrew McCabe. A new settlement undoes some of the damage

Laura Clawson at Daily Kos: 

Andrew McCabe, the former acting FBI director who became a frequent subject of Donald Trump’s rage, will get his pension after Trump pushed to strip him of it, with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions firing McCabe hours before he could retire. The Justice Department has settled a lawsuit with McCabe, rescinding his firing and returning his pension and benefits, along with about $200,000 in back payments.

As acting FBI director following Trump’s abrupt firing of James Comey, McCabe drew Trump’s rage by approving the decision to investigate Trump’s possible ties to Russia and possible acts of obstruction of justice. McCabe also said publicly that on their first meeting, Trump had described his wife as a “loser” because of a failed Virginia state Senate run. Jill McCabe’s campaign as a Democrat became a frequent subject in Trump’s attacks claiming that Andrew McCabe owed political favors to former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and, through him, to Hillary and Bill Clinton.

Trump made McCabe a frequent target and explicitly threatened his pension, saying in one tweet, “FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!” Go figure: When Sessions fired McCabe just in time to deny him his full pension, it looked suspicious. McCabe sued, claiming he was illegally fired for political reasons.

The Justice Department did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement.

“Politics should never play a role in the fair administration of justice and civil service personnel decisions,” McCabe said in a statement released by Arnold & Porter, the law firm representing him. McCabe added, “I hope that this result encourages the men and women of the FBI to continue to protect the American people by standing up for the truth and doing their jobs without fear of political retaliation.”

McCabe was also previously investigated for lying to investigators about authorizing a subordinate to talk to a reporter about Hillary Clinton’s emails, with the decision not to charge him coming in February 2020 and causing a new set of Trump temper tantrums. A judge in that case, Reggie Walton, warned about Trump’s public attacks: “I just think it’s a banana republic when we go down that road and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably, even if not, influencing the ultimate decision.”

Andrew McCabe, whose firing from the FBI and pension revocation was politically motivated by Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions, will have his full pension rightly restored.  

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Virginia State Sen. Dick Black, one of the loudest Republican supporters of Russia and Assad, announces his retirement

Dick Black bent over backwards to defend Syria’s dictator.

Casey Michel at ThinkProgress: 

One of the most outspoken defenders of Syria’s dictator and Russia’s propaganda machine has announced his retirement from the Virginia State Senate.

On Monday, Dick Black announced on Facebook that he would not seek re-election to the Virginia Sate Senate, where he’s served for seven years. Black didn’t specify any particular reason for his retirement, writing only that he is “looking forward to the next chapter.”

While Black isn’t a household name, he has made a name for himself in national security circles for the past few years. He became an outspoken defender of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and Russian propaganda alike, and lately took on a notable role in pushing pro-Trump conspiracy theories about former FBI official Andrew McCabe.

Black did not respond to ThinkProgress’ request for comment.

In 2016, Black took a now-infamous trip to Syria, where he had a two-hour meeting with Assad. The Syrian government published photos of their handshake. In the midst of the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons and barrel bombs against civilian populations, Black announced that he didn’t believe the Assad regime “favors any sort of widespread improper conduct.”

“There was sort of a spring in [Assad’s] step and a sense of joy and optimism, and looking out to the future and bringing the nation together,” Black later said.

The visit also came after Black wrote a letter to Assad praising him for his leadership. According to Black, Assad was a “heroic” leader. (A fellow Republican joked at the time, “What’s the matter, Dick? Kim Jong Un not returning your text messages?”) Black would go on to say that the U.S. could not allow Assad to be toppled.

Black’s support for Assad has, unsurprisingly, veered wildly into conspiratorial territory. In September, for instance, Black announced that Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency was plotting a chemical weapons attack in Syria — an attack that, Black explained, London would later blame on Assad.

But Black’s thirst for conspiracy didn’t end in Syria. Instead, it made him a favorite of another font of conspiracy: Russian propaganda outlet RT, which regularly featured Black to prop up Kremlin talking points. (RT mis-identified Black as a “Virginia Senator.”)

Despite the role RT played in Russia’s 2016 interference efforts, Black had no problem making multiple appearances on the outlet in 2018. Black also claimedthat the Russian propaganda outlet was “the only credible mainstream media dealing with the Syrian conflict.”

As Black said in a separate interview, Russia is “not a threat to the United States” — contrary to almost every intelligence assessment the U.S. has.

“Virginians deserve public officials who go to Richmond to improve their lives, not ones that defend murderous foreign dictators, discriminate against the LGBTQ community and attack women’s health care rights,” Democratic Party of Virginia spokesperson Jake Rubenstein told ThinkProgress. “We look forward to replacing Senator Black with a Democrat whose focus will be lifting up his or her constituents in Prince William and Loudoun Counties.”

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Did Andrew McCabe Set a Rat Trap for Senator Black?

"They never thought she would lose." - #Q

Booz Allen Hamilton whistleblower, Scott Bennett, gave an interview recently to Jason Goodman wherein a little gem was dropped at the very end of the show. It's starting to look as if a charge of conspiracy to entrap a U.S. senator might possibly be added to the growing list of treasonable offenses committed by disgraced FBI Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe. 

At the 1-hour-and-11-minute marker in this video linked below, Bennett has made the claim that, during 2015, when McCabe's wife Jill was running for Virginia State Senate against incumbent Senator Dick Black, McCabe sent four FBI agents to Black with an offer he happily refused.

The story was spun to Senator Black that the FBI wanted his help in arranging a negotiation between the US government and certain Syrian "freedom fighters" (cough, cough) in an attempt to secure the release of some Syrian journalist sitting in jail. Black was no stranger to Syria, having visited sacred sites like Palmyra and praising President Assad for his efforts in protecting Christians in that country. The senator would be a logical candidate for such a meeting. 

However, the senator smelled a rat and after his staff sniffed out the scheme, they realized that Senator Black was being deliberately set up for blackmail by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Once the meeting with these terrorists was recorded, McCabe was planning to leak that tidbit to the media and let his wife, Jill, use that #FakeNews as part of her smear campaign against the Senator.

Apparently, the $500,000 to $1 million that Clinton supporters gave to his wife's campaign - which comprised about one-third of her total campaign support - wasn't enough to do the job. She lost her bid for the senate seat in 2015. 

Again, Dead Babies

One of the reasons she lost was the effective smear campaign that Black launched against Jill, which was the allegation that Jill McCabe, in her medical position with Inova Loudon Hospital and her links to Planned Parenthood, was profiting from the illegal sale of body parts gleaned from aborted fetuses.

Now, I'm not going to launch a tirade against Planned Parenthood or the abortion issue or the ethics of selling stem cell tissue. However, in researching this story, I did raise an eyebrow over yet another coincidence:

Wherever Hillary Clinton goes, sacrificed babies seem to follow.

It is still a bit of a mystery to me why the Clintons were so aggressive to get their gal Jill McCabe into the Virginia senate. A half million dollars or more and the treasonous entrapment of a sitting senator is an awfully high price to pay, even for them. Is there something we're missing here? Is it possible that Dr. Jill McCabe has been providing some kind of covert "disposal service" to the sacrificing Satanists who seem to pop up whenever Hillary's name is mentioned? Was Jill McCabe the victim of yet another Hillary Clinton broken promise of political advancement and now that bill sits unpaid by the Clinton Foundation?

I'll just leave that there and we'll see what develops. The McCabe Family has certainly learned a hard lesson on what it means to be left high, dry, and hanging in the wind ... not unlike what was done to Ambassador Stevens.

Benghazi

One thing we do know is that Andrew McCabe did secure the sham arrest of Ahmed Abu Khattala, the Syrian terrorist scapegoat upon whom the FBI pinned Hillary Clinton's sacrifice of Libyan ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi. Khattala was later acquitted of 14 out of 18 charges. He was only convicted of conspiring to support terrorism. In Syria, I would think that amounts to something like a liquor store robbery. 

Just for laughs, here's what WaPo was saying in praise of McCabe back in 2014: 

Newly at the helm of the Washington field office is Andrew G. McCabe, 46, a rising star in the FBI whom many bureau officials think will be the next deputy director when Mark F. Giuliano retires.... "It’s been an intense couple of years," McCabe says.

Yup, that worked out well. Oh and did we mention that McCabe was sitting on all that lurid evidence found on Anthony Weiner's laptop in 2016? You know, the files like Huma Abedin's "insurance" video, that final nail in the HRC coffin that the #QAnon Faithful are constantly clamoring to have released to the public?

So, here we are, on the eve of Beltane 2018, halfway between spring and summer. #QAnon has promised lots of "May flowers." We may wonder if the McCabe family is now ready to do some spring planting of their own. It would be a shame to let all those secrets go to waste.

#NoMoreSecretSocieties !

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Almost a year later, everything changed. A reporter called my cellphone on a Sunday in October 2016, asking questions about contributions to my campaign and whether there had been any influence on Andrew’s decisions at the FBI. This could not be further from the truth. In fact, it makes no sense. Andrew’s involvement in the Clinton investigation came not only after the contributions were made to my campaign but also after the race was over. Since that news report, there have been thousands more, repeating the false allegation that there was some connection between my campaign and my husband’s role at the FBI. After the 2016 election, I thought for a while that it was all over — at least now that President-elect Trump won, he would stop coming after us. How naive that was. After then-FBI Director James B. Comey was fired, we knew that Andrew could be the next target of the president’s wrath. Then the president started tweeting about how the contributions to my campaign made it clear that Andrew (and all the senior leadership at the FBI) were corrupt and that he should be removed. It went one step further in the days before Christmas, when the president made threats related to my husband’s retirement. To have my personal reputation and integrity and those of my family attacked this way is beyond horrible. It feels awful every day. It keeps me up nights. I made the decision to run for office because I was trying to help people. Instead, it turned into something that was used to attack our family, my husband’s career and the entire FBI. Nothing can prepare you for what happens when your life is turned upside down by current events. Nothing prepares you for conversations you have to have with your teenage children. Nothing prepares you for the news crews staking out your house, your back yard, your place of business. Nothing prepares you for the fear you feel every time you receive a package from a stranger. I have spent countless hours trying to understand how the president and so many others can share such destructive lies about me. Ultimately I believe it somehow never occurred to them that I could be a serious, independent-minded physician who wanted to run for office for legitimate reasons. They rapidly jumped to the conclusion that I must be corrupt, as part of what I believe to be an effort to vilify us to suit their needs.

Jill McCabe, writing in the Washington Post on how Trump’s incessant anti-American attacks on the FBI harmed the McCabes (04.02.2018).

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FBI 'Lovers' New Texts Expose Obama Complicity: He "Wants To Know Everything We're Doing"

FBI ‘Lovers’ New Texts Expose Obama Complicity: He “Wants To Know Everything We’re Doing”

FBI ‘Lovers’ New Texts Expose Obama Complicity: He “Wants To Know Everything We’re Doing”

by Tyler Durden

New text messages between FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have now been made public, and, as The Duran’s Alex Christoforou notes, the big reveal is that then-POTUS Barack Obama appears to be in the loop, on the whole ‘destroy Trump’ insurance plan hatched by upper management at the FBI.

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Jackboot: The FISA memo and the corrupt FBI and DOJ #FISAMemo #IDpol

[the_ad id=”13872″] A few things for you to understand about the “FISA memo” which was declassified and released a few hours ago. Patriots aka modern day anti-federalist already distrust the FBI and other federal agencies. Thus a lot of what the Establishment Republicans and the greater American family are looking at is not surprising to us. It is important that patriots explain to your family…

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