Attorney General Jeff Sessions has at long last fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Better late than never.

Citing the investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General and “a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe” by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Sessions terminated the former Deputy Director two days before his government pension vested.

In his statement, Sessions stated that “Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.

“The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR proposal stated, ‘all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.’”

Predictably the mainstream media are crying foul. Without discussing the stated reasons for the firing, they are denouncing Sessions’ move as punitive, politically motivated and calculated to protect President Trump from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of Hillary Clinton supporters. How dare, they huff and sputter, Sessions deny this public servant the pension to which he is entitled?

Well, if prominent Washington lawyer Joseph diGenova is right, the media had better save their outrage for later. Because according to diGenova losing his pension is the least of McCabe’s worries.

DiGenova is the former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, former Independent Counsel to the United States, and former Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (the Church Committee which years ago dismembered the U.S. intelligence community). In other words, he is part of the D.C. establishment and presumably has connections and reliable sources in and around the FBI and DOJ.

In an article appearing in the February 2018 edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis magazine, diGenova lays out the entire sordid history of the Comey FBI’s fake investigation of Hillary Clinton’s unsecure private email server and the efforts by the FBI and DOJ to “frame Trump”. Entitled “The Politicization of the FBI”, diGenova’s article is well worth reading.

As for Man of the Hour Andrew McCabe, diGenova sets forth a damning indictment:

“In late spring 2016, just weeks prior to [former FBI Director James] Comey’s July 5 press conference clearing Clinton of any crime [regarding her grossly negligent mishandling of classified materials on her private email server], FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ordered FBI agents in New York to shut down their investigation into the Clinton Foundation. Their objections were overruled. Sources have told me that McCabe also shut down an additional Clinton investigation. This is the McCabe who, while he was overseeing the Clinton email investigation, had a wife running for the Virginia State Senate and receiving more than $460,000 in campaign contributions from a longtime Clinton loyalist, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Moreover, it was only after the news of Clinton’s private server became public in The New York Times [in 2015] that McAuliffe recruited McCabe’s wife to run for office. McCabe eventually recused himself from the Clinton probe, but that was one week before the 2016 election, after the decisions to clear Clinton and to pursue the Trump-Russia collusion investigation had already been made. So his recusal was meaningless.” [Emphasis added]

In short, according to diGenova, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, one of the Clintons’ oldest and most trusted political allies, approached McCabe’s wife about running for the Virginia state senate and followed up with over $460,000 in funds while McCabe was shutting down two Clinton related investigations and was in line to supervise the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s unsecure private email server. If true, not only did McCabe fail to recuse himself until after the email investigation was almost done, he squelched other Clinton related investigations all while his wife’s campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Clinton ally. This goes beyond mere conflict of interest and constitutes a prima facie case of good old fashioned quid pro quo bribery.

Later in the article, diGenova offers the following:

“Significantly, [FBI Special Agent Peter] Strzok also led the interview of [Trump’s former National Security Adviser] General Michael Flynn that ended in Flynn pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI. It is important to recall that Flynn’s FBI interview was not conducted under the authority of the special counsel, but under that of Comey and McCabe. It took place during Inauguration week in January 2017. Flynn had met with the same agents the day before regarding security clearances. McCabe called Flynn and asked if agents could come to the White House. Flynn agreed, assuming it was about personnel. It was not.

“Flynn had been overheard on a FISA wiretap talking to Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. There was nothing criminal or even unusual about the fact of such discussion. Flynn was on the Trump transition team and was a federal employee as the President-Elect’s national security advisor. It was his job to be talking to foreign leaders. Flynn was not charged with regard to anything said during his conversation with Kislyak. So why was the FBI interrogating Flynn about legal conduct? What more did the FBI need to know? I am told by sources that when Flynn’s indictment was announced, McCabe was on a video conference call—cheering!”

So McCabe’s lost his pension? If diGenova’s information is correct, McCabe is about to find out what it is like to be on the receiving end of the federal justice system. When that happens, losing his pension will seem like a paper cut compared to the legal chainsaw massacre that awaits him.

The first OIG report dealing with the fake Clinton email investigation is reportedly due sometime in April. Presumably it will substantiate much of what diGenova is saying.

In the meantime, read his article. It’s a fascinating and clearly stated exposition of how the FBI and DOJ got into the business of playing presidential politics.