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In reply to the discussion: Andrew McCabe won back his pension: [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)extremely powerful man, as all FBI directors are. They operate in an intensely political context, a job requirement.
Plus, not that Comey needed it, but his colleagues in the DoJ and literally thousands of colleagues across the nation were repeatedly shocked by his behaviors and tried to talk him out of them. His close colleagues first advised him personally when an action was extremely unethical and ill advised, and then later public letters were signed by hundreds of judges, AGs, legal scholars, etc, etc.
Those actions include a long pattern of conducting public operations continuously detrimental to Democrats, Hillary especiallly, and beneficial to the Repubicans, including tRump especially. They include having the NYT publish a lengthy summary of the tRump-Russia investigation a week before the election which implied it had found nothing and was wrapping up, when the opposite was the case. We all watched this.
Comey had several years of his appointment left, and McCabe was widely considered to be his probable successor. Both committed career suicide that fall before election day by committing such blatantly unethical acts that they required (limited) investigation. tRump's gratitude did not survive their refusal to function as his personal hit men. No investigation into what really happened or why and with whom, and all the rest that what was not public, has been conducted.