{"id":93544,"date":"2018-01-29T15:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93544"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:50:28","slug":"was-mccabe-just-fired-because-of-the-impending-fisa-memo-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=93544","title":{"rendered":"Was McCabe just fired because of the impending &#8220;FISA Memo&#8221; release?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"post-title\">BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe \u2013 Named In FISA MEMO \u2013 STEPS DOWN EFFECTIVE TODAY<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->by Joshua Caplan<br \/>\nGATEWAY PUNDIT<\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has \u201cstepped down effective today,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/958028628612100096\">reports<\/a>\u00a0<em>NBC News.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc40 RT <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a>: BREAKING: Andrew McCabe has stepped down effective today as FBI deputy director, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell @ NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wi16MIxNo6\">pic.twitter.com\/wi16MIxNo6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Krystal L. Clemons (@DrKLClemons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrKLClemons\/status\/958031138899021829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMcCabe, who served a brief stint as acting director of the bureau, was already expected to leave. He will stay on \u201cterminal leave\u201d until he is eligible to retire with benefits in March,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/29\/fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-frequent-target-of-trumps-ire-steps-down-nbc-news.html\">reports<\/a>\u00a0CNBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One source familiar said McCabe was exercising his retirement eligibility and characterized his decision as \u201cstepping aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCabe has been at the center of ongoing tensions between the White House and the FBI and has reportedly been under pressure to quit from President Donald Trump, whose campaign is being investigated for possible collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trump-asked-the-acting-fbi-director-whom-he-voted-for-during-oval-office-meeting\/2018\/01\/23\/2cb50818-0073-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_mccabe-815pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&amp;utm_term=.393ba125852d\">Washington Post reported that\u00a0<\/a>after Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey, he met with McCabe in the Oval Office and asked him whom he voted for in the 2016 election. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Trump was asked on Monday whether he knew McCabe was stepping aside and the president did not answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/958033684745064450\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-dt-full=\"%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-dt-explicit-timestamp=\"12:46 PM - Jan 29, 2018\" data-dt-months=\"Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec\" data-dt-am=\"AM\" data-dt-pm=\"PM\" data-dt-now=\"now\" data-dt-s=\"s\" data-dt-m=\"m\" data-dt-h=\"h\" data-dt-second=\"second\" data-dt-seconds=\"seconds\" data-dt-minute=\"minute\" data-dt-minutes=\"minutes\" data-dt-hour=\"hour\" data-dt-hours=\"hours\" data-dt-abbr=\"%{number}%{symbol}\" data-dt-short=\"%{day} %{month}\" data-dt-long=\"%{day} %{month} %{year}\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-ancestor\" data-scribe=\"section:conversation\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet Tweet--compact h-entry reply js-tweetIdInfo\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/958032892088766465\" data-tweet-id=\"958032892088766465\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-header u-cf\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded\" cite=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/958033684745064450\" data-tweet-id=\"958033684745064450\" data-scribe=\"section:subject\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-body e-entry-content\" data-scribe=\"component:tweet\">\n<div class=\"u-hiddenVisually js-inViewportScribingTarget\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump does not respond when asked at a UN Security Council lunch about Deputy FBI Director McCabe&#39;s decision to step down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c7SUUi4CQv\">pic.twitter.com\/c7SUUi4CQv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/958033684745064450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em>Washington Post,<\/em>\u00a0McCabe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2017\/12\/trump-goes-scorched-earth-deputy-fbi-director-andrew-mccabe-racing-clock-retire-full-benefits\/\">intended to resign<\/a>\u00a0from the FBI once he was eligible for full pension benefits in March.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/01\/breaking-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-named-fisa-memo-steps-effective-today\/\">http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2018\/01\/breaking-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-named-fisa-memo-steps-effective-today\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe \u2013 Named In FISA MEMO \u2013 STEPS DOWN EFFECTIVE TODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}