Former DOJ IG Representing McCabe Tweets

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Jake Tapper @jaketapper 8m8 minutes ago
Former DOJ IG who is representing McCabe

Michael R. Bromwich @mrbromwich
We will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting &
false tweet by the President. The whole truth will come out in due
course. But the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire
process that led to Mr. McCabe’s termination and has rendered it
illegitimate. 1:15 PM - 18 Mar 2018

Link to tweet

joined twitter February 2009 - first two tweets by Mr. Bromwich


full statement here (pdf): https://t.co/9XKXoUKqTV

[Leghorn21]

1. K&R!! nt

[malaise]

2. This should have 500 recs

Rec

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Read the whole statement here:

http://www.bromwichgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bromwich-statement.pdf

[bigtree]

4. thanks

...it's at the link in the twitter post.

[janx]

5. Cool!

He just started tweeting!

[lastlib]

6. Here's the meat of the statement:

This distortion of the process begins at the very top, with the President’s repeated offensive, drive-by Twitter attacks on Mr. McCabe. These attacks began in the summer of 2017 and accelerated after it was disclosed that Mr. McCabe would be a corroborating witness against the President. The attacks have continued to this day, with the President’s press secretary stating Thursday, in response to a question about Mr. McCabe’s fate, “that is a determination that we would leave to Attorney General Sessions, but we do think it is well-documented that he has had some very troubling behavior and by most accounts a bad actor.” This vile and defamatory statement is fully consistent with the attacks on Mr. McCabe that have come from the White House since last summer. And it was quite clearly designed to put inappropriate pressure on the Attorney General to act accordingly. This intervention by the White House in the DOJ disciplinary process is unprecedented, deeply unfair, and dangerous.

The investigation described in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report was cleaved off from the larger investigation of which it was a part, its completion expedited, and the disciplinary process completed in a little over a week. Mr. McCabe and his counsel were given limited access to a draft of the OIG report late last month, did not see the final report and the evidence on which it is based until a week ago, and were receiving relevant exculpatory evidence as recently as two days ago. We were given only four days to review a voluminous amount of relevant evidence, prepare a response, and make presentations to the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. With so much at stake, this process has fallen far short of what Mr. McCabe deserved.

This concerted effort to accelerate the process in order to beat the ticking clock of his scheduled retirement violates any sense of decency and basic principles of fairness. It should make all federal government employees, who continue to work in an Administration that insults, debases, and abuses them, shudder in the knowledge that they could be next.

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I hope the press seizes on this and totally flames the Orange Bastard and his henchmen over it. And I further hope it becomes a basis for an Article of Impeachment!

[Demsrule86]

8. I knew anyone who was involve with this needs to be charged with obstruction and that would include

Trump...bastard.

[blake2012]

17. TRUMP needs to fucking die of Big Mac heart attack!

Fuck that loathesome pustulent bag of shit.

Bring g this mother fucker down and send him to prison already!!

He is a vomitous embarrassment and danger to America.


Trump, “YOU’RE FIRED!!”

[triron]

23. Agree 110 percent

[smirkymonkey]

30. If only!

That would be the best solution.

[Soxfan58]

7. I fear

You aint seen nothing yet.

[D_Master81]

9. Imagine

What any other time in history when a lawyer would say “we won’t dignify responding to the president “. And he’s not the 1st to basically say this publicly

[BSdetect]

10. The suspense is killing us all.

[blake2012]

18. End it. Shut it down. Abort this presidency as not viable

[Hortensis]

11. Here's Lawfare's summary of the McCabe breach of ethics,

investigation, recommendations for firing, and the rest.

Interestingly, Sessions' statement on the firing does not include the date of the Office of the Inspector General recommendation that McCabe be fired, and the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility's concurrence.

That date, seemingly some months past, is not in this article, nor did browsing a few others turn it up. Of course, we do know Trump's malice is one reason behind the last-minute firing, which will require McCabe to fight for his pension.

This article does point out that there could possibly be a valid reason for firing at the last moment (unrelated to Trump), which could be very valid and honorable, but says we cannot know at this point.

On the plus side, the official report is due to finally be made public this month or the next, and all this attention suggests it will need to be. Maybe then we'll also find out why the firing and release of the report were delayed for so long. If McCabe had been fired in 2017, this would of course not have happened now.

* Note that the OIG is waiting for Mueller to conclude to decide if he needs to expand the investigations of Comey and McCabe to include Sessions and Flynn.

What We Know, and Don’t Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-firing-andrew-mccabe

[blake2012]

19. Bullshit

[Hortensis]

21. It's okay, Blake. We DO have real heroes, honest and true,

on our side, and maybe McCabe will turn out to be one of them. Maybe read Warfare's update and be readied for the truth, whatever it is.

Unfortunately, vanquishing Trump would only reveal more clearly who our big opponents really are. We have the law and our heroes on our side and we're going to win, but it's going to take a while.

Oh, and we have the midterms! That's our time to be the heroes and come out smite those bastards a really devastating blow, and that time our legal, legislative, judicial and journalistic heroes will be cheering us on.

[uponit7771]

12. K&R, Red Don did this earlier with Bergdhal (sp) trial

[BlueJac]

13. I can't wait till they get that MFer D Trump........

a National disgrace!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Simple and clear and short. The way to communicate in response to tRump. . . . nt

[mountain grammy]

15. Kick, kick, kick...

Amazing.. I'd advise everyone to read the full statement.

[Botany]

16. In Mueller & Co., McCabe, Bromwich, and Stromy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatii Trump and ..

.... company are up against some of the best of the best lawyers in America and they are
going to fuck him up, take away his power, shame him like no one has ever been shamed
before, drain his $$$, and maybe get him into prison.

[Cha]

20. Bromwich sounds like he means

serious business.. "Illegitimate" Love it!

Mahalo bigtree!

[Honeycombe8]

22. Great statement. I'm so glad McCabe has good representation.

And my he end up receiving his earned pension.

This gets me spittin' mad. What the hell????? I hope this means the GOP just lost the country come the mid-terms.

[dem4decades]

24. Someone please tell me that Huckabee Sanders will be inducted as part of

This cabal.

[bigtree]

25. 'inducted' into the hall of shame

...done.

[dem4decades]

26. Damn, my autocorrect changed indicted to inducted.

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27. I figured that

...just funnin'

[Progressive dog]

28. It's good to see that McCabe will continue to fight back

against the psychopath and the other swine that have gathered in his wallow.

[not fooled]

29. This was a twofer

for the moron: attempt to damage McCabe's credibility re the Mueller investigation, and cow Federal employees who have been critical of the moron.

The moron and his kook brothers maladministration are coming for Federal employees, big time. If the Dems don't take back control of Congress, and after gosuck is the deciding vote in that public employees' union case, expect to see attacks on all aspects of the Civil Service system, including going after pay, benefits, and status.

I know many Federal employees who voted for the moron, for a variety of reasons, and who stand to be hurt badly. Hard to feel sorry for them.

[onetexan]

31. well said

Bromwich is a smart man - turned this whole drama on its head to make it damning narrative against the DOTUS & his enablers.