Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has described the agency as being in “utter disarray” following a sweeping round of firings under President Trump’s administration.
McCabe’s comments come after Trump dismissed David Sundberg, head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, along with nearly 90 other FBI officials last Friday.
The latest personnel shake-up is reportedly just the beginning, as the Trump administration is said to be preparing another round of firings targeting FBI officials involved in the January 6 cases.
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McCabe, who was fired from the FBI in 2018 for lying to federal investigators, has claimed that current FBI agents are fearful as they await Trump’s next move. “This is totally unprecedented,” McCabe said of the agency’s current state.
“I’ve talked to more FBI people in the last four days than I did in the prior four years,” McCabe added. “It is a place in utter disarray right now. People are worried about how am I going to pay the bills? How am I gonna support my family?”
McCabe detailed the uncertainty among FBI personnel, emphasizing the potential personal and professional consequences of being dismissed.
“If you get fired, you’re done. That’s the end of your reputation, your ability to get any job, you lose your pay, you lose your chance at a pension, you lose your health insurance,” he said.
He further described the situation as a “moment of terror” for FBI officials facing possible termination.
JUST IN: Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe says the FBI is in “utter disarray” thanks to Trump, says they are living in “terror” because their pensions, healthcare, and retirement are at risk.
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McCabe himself has a controversial history with Trump.
In May 2017, shortly after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, McCabe initiated a counterintelligence investigation into the president, probing whether he was “acting as an agent of Russia.”
He also launched a criminal investigation into Trump for possible obstruction of justice related to Comey’s firing.
McCabe was dismissed from his position in 2018, with then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions stating that he had “made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.”
Despite his firing, McCabe sued the Department of Justice in 2019 and ultimately won back his pension after the government was forced to overturn his termination and recognize him as having retired in good standing.
As Trump continues his efforts to overhaul the FBI, the agency remains on edge, with more dismissals expected in the coming weeks.
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We had 4 years of terror as a people, if the FBI is learning what that’s like, it’s about time.
The swamp is draining and McCabe’s whining is the gargling sound of the filth spiraling down the drain.
Trump is working at warp speed and the shock and awe is staggering. Soon, the “educational” institutions will be sanitized and all that will be left to clean will be Congress. And that is our job.
It should be noted that McCabe sued for wrongful termination in August of 2019; however, it was not settled until October 14, 2021, by the Biden DoJ Merrick Garland, which had political motives to do so.
The FBI has been on the ‘giving’ end and now finds itself and its’ minions entering the FO zone and the big, bad feds are whining and crying. Sweet Karma.
Just wondering how many the poor darlings signed off on arresting peacefully protesting grannies, parents at school board meetings, et al. Actions have consequences, do they not? We reap what we sow. I am not feeling the pain, Mr “safe behind his pension” McCabe.
Boo hoo. Welcome to the real world.
they’re “terrorized”,, worried about their paychecks and retirement. Guess they should have thought about that before they disgraced themselves
Isn’t “learn to code” the proper response?
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Perhaps their pink slips should be accompanied with pre dawn raids by heavily armed swat teams waking their neighbors and terrorizing their children. After all turnabout is fair play!
Welcome to the club with lost pensions, healthcare, etc. The Shrub (GWB) did the same to people in the industry when the green light was given to stop giving pensions to new hires in business. Take the cushy Federal jobs and shove it up your keisters.