[August]

Biden administration reverses all punishment of Andrew McCabe

By Thomas Lifson

The Deep State takes care of its own, scoring a big victory yesterday thanks to the Biden administration defaulting, using an old trick to reverse all punishment of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who lied repeatedly to FBI officials — normally a crime that can be prosecuted severely.

That he lied is undisputed. See this inspector general's report.

Former attorney general Jeff Sessions fired McCabe just before his pension vested, but the thoroughly politicized Department of Justice declined to prosecute him. Losing pay and pension rankled McCabe, so he sued.

Rather than fight McCabe in court and let a jury decide, Merrick Garland's Justice Department has caved in completely and given McCabe everything he wanted in a "settlement agreement" that includes half a million dollars in attorney's fees and about $200,000 in pension payments he missed plus future pension payments for the rest of his life. Having already stepped down from his position as deputy director of the FBI — to which he was appointed by James Comey, who raised him from the ranks — McCabe will not be getting his old job back — just the cushy package of benefits and pension payments that retired senior government bureaucrats enjoy. He joins Lois Lerner of the IRS in the ranks of guilty political hacks who escape punishment for their partisan misdeeds in office.

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