Here we go

[cilla4progress]

Constitutional crisis on deck

[uppityperson]

1. ?

[grantcart]

2. McCabe's retirement has been planned for a long time.

[lindysalsagal]

3. For march. That means 45 can't wait till then.

[forgotmylogin]

6. He's using up his vacation days.

Bloody hell, I'd want to get out from under 45's umbra ASAP too.

[FSogol]

10. Is that based on confirmation or speculation? n/t

[forgotmylogin]

16. Speculation.

As it turns out, not true, but by Occam's razor, it was a reasonable assumption and I've seen others guess this. Many people use up their vacation days before leaving a job.

[wishstar]

4. McCabe retirement was announced weeks ago, does not create any crisis situation

McCabe has not been in charge of Trump/Russia investigation since Rosenstein appointed Mueller as Special Counsel last summer

[triron]

5. Could be.

[cilla4progress]

7. CBS news reporting

"forced..."

Link to tweet

[Orrex]

8. A little help for the cube-rats with no twitter access, please?

[cilla4progress]

9. Sorry - see above...

can you sneak a click?

[Orrex]

12. Thanks

[FSogol]

11. Andrew McCabe - one of three FBI officials who could corroborate Comey's account of Trump pressuring

him to drop the Russia probe before firing him - was just "forced" to step down as FBI deputy director https://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-mccabe-forced-to-step-down-as-fbi-deputy-director/ …

[Orrex]

13. Thank you.

[FSogol]

14. Anytime. n/t

[OliverQ]

15. Jim Acosta just reported McCabe was forced out by Chris Wray.

Something to the effect of a new team coming in that McCabe would not be apart of, and lots of pressure has been placed on Wray.

They're paving the way for the removal of Rosenstein/Mueller.