> funker530.com/turkish-helicopter-afrin/ Wtf, Turkish gunners can't shoot for shit. No wonder they didn't manage to solve their local kurd infestation (as if having a regular roach infestation was any better)
Jacob Williams
when did he lie under oath?
Oliver Roberts
>A look inside a now abandoned YPG compound in Afrin Including images of a Now seemingly Shattered dream >They wanted Syria, Iraq and a huge part of Turkey lmao
Iran's coming out of this whole mess more of a winner than the Turks are, honestly, they're the ones picking up the bill for the Russians being there.
As for ISIS, they're being deliberately left alive on the east bank of the Euphraties by the American backed SDF forces, and whatever half assed offensive they had going against ISIS was halted when all the Kurds in the SDF in that area fucked off to fight the Turks in Afrin. the last ISIS enclaves other than that are Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus (which are starting an assault on Syrian forces even though the whole army is 7 blocks away i ghotua) and another on the border of Golan Heights, which everyone, including the chosen people, have chosen to ignore.
well its enough to send Flynn to court so its enough to get you sacked.
Christopher Reed
He fired McCabe as not so much to retaliate against him but to serve as a deterrent against more junior government employees from acting against Trump. You're the deputy FBI director with over 20 years of faithful service, yeah you've got a case and enough savings to fall back on. You're an FBI agent at six years with two kids and a mortgage payment? Might think twice about aggressively pursuing that lead into Trumps finances.
edit I didn't say that this move will be effective (I hope it's not) just that it's clearly what the administration is going for given the timing, how big of a micro-manager Trump is, and his history with intimidation tactics.
Yeah, I don't know what their real mission there is. Didn't Germany sell them some kickass new tanks recently? They could crush the kurds if they wanted.
Jason Campbell
The old man plays for keeps. The example he set with McCabe will be heard loud and clear.
Turks are complete trash troops, honestly they're like the Red Army in 1940, with it's officer corps pretty depleted by the coup in 2016 and the purge afterwards of the gulenists and whatnot
I'm not sure if that's the extent of his fire-able offences or possible crimes but the statement from Justice made it clear that the decision was based on recommendations from career people doing internal review, and the information they were working off of will be the OIG report.
That is due out in the next month I guess.
Jacob Miller
Lying to federal agent is a crime in itself, no 'under oath' needed.
> when did he lie under oath That's still not disclosed but happened, according to Sessions. Seems like they used the old switcheroo with him like he did with Flynn
nigger should be in prison for life for what hes done
Brandon Martin
>Yeah, I don't know what their real mission there is. wee bit of annexation and a hint of an ethnic cleansing. Afrin city is supposed to be about 36k population, and 30k have fled in the last few weeks. if it's anything like what the Turks did in Al Bab (flooding the land with Turkish settlers after taking the area), the Kurds may actually get full on genocided from the only parts of the Middle east they're native to.
Andrew Torres
I think since it was after close of business on Friday McCabe still gets some of his pension, right? I'm not sure how it works.
Lucas Price
What does lacking candor mean, is that a legal term?
Jordan Hill
It means he concealed information when asked about things.
Camden Williams
>Shut the fuck up, leaf Never ever. But I appreciate the link
What's candor mean in this context? Certainly doesn't seem criminal, but I'm listening
Landon Wilson
I find it funny disgraced AG has to stress not to do anything unlawful top kek
Doesn't take too smart of a leadership to point the business end of a mostly automated gunship and pull the trigger. Watch equivalent footage from Americans, if they pull the trigger nobody is staying up.
Jayden Rodriguez
I hope the left start throwing in more niggers and spics candidates
If you didn't already know McCabe, Strzok, and Page were conspirators to construct the fake Russia investigation around a Clinton-funded disinformation campaign, why the fuck would you open your kike mouth, motherfucker?
Zachary Torres
cough bullshit cough
Eli Brooks
McCabe claims firing part of 'ongoing assault' on Russia probe - ABC News (this was interview before firing ready for release after firing)
McCabe recently sat down with ABC News and said he wanted to make one thing clear: >“I firmly believe what’s happening to me right now … is just a piece of an ongoing assault” on the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller, who’s looking into Russian efforts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 election and alleged collusion between Trump associates and Russian operatives. McCabe said he >“played a significant role and witnessed significant events” after Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last year, “so a concentrated effort to consistently undermine my credibility and my reputation makes perfect sense if you are trying to undermine the efforts of the special counsel and discredit the entire FBI.” >The undoing of McCabe’s career is “just the latest step in that process,” he said.
So how did we get to this point? Here’s how McCabe sees it: >“YOU DON’T PROTECT AMERICA ON A 9-TO-5 SCHEDULE” >McCabe said he “became obsessed with the FBI” while in law school, after interning at the Justice Department. >He joined the FBI in 1996, spending his first 10 years at the FBI’s New York City Field Office. >He came to Washington in 2006 and never left, working counterterrorism and national security cases before becoming the head of the FBI’s Washington Field Office in 2014. >Ultimately, in February 2016, he became deputy director of the FBI, working alongside Comey.
Oh boy I am in deep fucking shit /ptg/. GF found out I donated to Trump campaign. She is throwing a hissy fit, calling me a pig and shit. She managed to calm down.
She is 30 I am 27
She has been pretty clingy lately, and keeps bitching to me about the need to settle down and her biological clock. I'm not her first but I do like her alot, got promoted a few months ago and my boss is training me to be his successor. I wanna focus on that. The other caveat is that i'm shit with girls, could not get a gf for the life of me in college and H.S. Only when I hit 26 was i getting good results.
What do I do? Also fuck /adv/ they give shit advice every time.
> McCabe still gets some of his pension, right? No. He get back what he himself put in his account, nothing more. Trump is a vindictive fellow, if the timing mattered McCabe would have been fired before.
>Deputy director is “an oversight” and “strategic planning role,” McCabe said. >“I do not tell [senior FBI agents] how to work their case. I don’t come up with investigative strategies that say, ‘No, don’t interview that person, go interview this person.’” >McCabe, his wife, Jill, and their two teenage children live in Virginia. His family has been “incredibly supportive” of him, he said. >“I don’t need to tell you that the national security world is a series of unbelievably long days, weekends, missed birthdays, cancelled vacations – and through everything they have just been totally behind it, because they understand the importance of the work and that you don’t protect America on 9-to-5 schedule,” >But that support is “one of the reasons why it’s been so hard to have to watch them have to go through what we’ve gone through in the last year,” he added.
“A REPUBLICAN MY ENTIRE LIFE” >“I have considered myself to be a Republican my entire life,” albeit “a moderate Republican,” McCabe said. >“I’ve voted for every Republican candidate for president in every election, except the 2016 one, in which I did not vote. And I chose not to vote because of the political nature of the work that we were engaged in.”
Meanwhile, his wife, a pediatrician at a Virginia hospital, was never much of a political person, according to McCabe. >“She’s voted for Democrats [and] Republicans,” and until a few years ago she would have described herself as “an independent and not particularly heavily aligned with either party,” he said. >That changed in February 2015, when she “was contacted out of the blue by the chief of staff for then-Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam and asked if she would be interested in running for state senate,” McCabe said. McCabe insists he and his wife didn’t know Northam or then-governor Terry McAuliffe, both Democrats.
Jill McCabe’s name was floated by Northam’s chief of staff as a possible candidate because Medicaid expansion in Virginia had become a “primary policy initiative” for McAuliffe’s administration. A year earlier, when McAuliffe visited her hospital, Jill McCabe was quoted in a Washington Post article voicing support for the Medicaid expansion efforts, according to McCabe. >“They looked up the article, found Jill’s name and called her out of the blue,” he said. His wife ultimately decided to run, and McCabe was “very involved” in that decision, he said. >“She was motivated by health issues,” he added. “She’s in the trenches … in the battle of providing health care coverage to the entire population, not just the well-insured people of Loudon County [Virginia], but also the disadvantaged side of that population.”
Easton Lewis
Damn, for a guy who doesn't leak to reporters he's sure johnny on the spot for fucking sit down interviews.
Chase Wilson
>People of Afrin enter a YPG HQs and take "ghanimah" (Loot and spoils)
Due to his wife’s campaign, McCabe knew he >“would have to take some proactive steps in my role as the [Assistant Director in Charge] of the Washington Field Office to stay out of particular investigative matters,” and after consulting with ethics attorneys at FBI headquarters, counsel at the Washington Field Office and others they “came up with a protocol where I would essentially be removed from all Virginia state political corruption matters,” he added. >“I had no role in Jill’s campaign,” McCabe said. “I didn’t go to any events. I didn’t raise money. I didn’t encourage people to vote – just stayed out of it completely, and she handled it with her staff.” Jill McCabe lost her campaign for state senate in November 2015, three months before McCabe became deputy director.
“THIS IS NOT A LEAK” In October 2016, the Wall Street Journal published a story questioning whether Jill McCabe’s ties to Democrats, particularly McAuliffe, a longtime friend to Hillary Clinton, meant McCabe himself was unfit to oversee the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state.
>Days later, the Wall Street Journal began working on a follow-up story, with the newspaper’s reporter claiming “he was hearing from people within the FBI that I had tried to slow down or stop our investigative efforts on the Clinton Foundation case, which … was absolutely inaccurate,” McCabe recalled.
>“I had not slowed our efforts, but it was part of the same theme: ‘I was maybe politically motivated, and worse, that the FBI was being subjected to influence,’” McCabe said. >“I just thought that was incredibly damaging to the FBI. … I cannot have my people believing some lie, that the leadership of the FBI is sandbagging cases at the political urging of the DOJ. That would be corrosive to our independence and our credibility.”
Nathan Johnson
>If you didn't already know McCabe, Strzok, and Page were conspirators to construct the fake Russia investigation around a Clinton-funded disinformation campaign Wow those are some extraordinary claims user! A criminal conspiracy at that level damn you must have some fine sources and analysis somewhere. Except Mueller hasn't concluded his investigation into whether or not the dossier was legit yet. Time will tell, and I'm sure the responsible civil-minded denizens of /ptg/ will disavow Trump and rally for his impeachment should it come out that he broke the law.
Joseph Peterson
>I do not tell [senior FBI agents] how to work their case. >I don’t come up with investigative strategies that say, ‘No, don’t interview that person, go interview this person.’” McCabe doth protest too much
>Sessions managed to hit the easiest layup of all time, offered to him on a silver platter I actually still can't believe it lol
Ayden Ramirez
According to McCabe, the truth was the opposite of what the reporter was suggesting: >The Justice Department was trying to slow the Clinton Foundation investigation, and he was trying to keep pushing it ahead.
McCabe wanted to get the reporter >“off this narrative,” >so he “authorized” a top FBI spokesman and FBI attorney to provide the reporter with >“the content of a conversation that I had had with [a senior official] from the Department of Justice,” McCabe recalled.
>“The Department was not impressed with the case, and they didn’t believe it should be going forward,” McCabe said.
>“The decision to share information with the media is absolutely within my authority as deputy director,” McCabe added. >“I am one of three people in the FBI who has the independent authority to make that decision. People could disagree about the decisions I made ... but the fact is this is not a leak.”
Connor Wood
Boy those all sound like subjective judgments about character and not at all like colluding activity to influence an election.
Nathaniel Sanchez
>be CIA head >knows Trump dindu nuffin cause no evidence after a year >political corruption Are they projecting again?
He's already broken the law on several occasions. The republican controlled congress doesn't give a shit.
Ryder Morgan
The Justice Department's inspector general and the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility felt differently, according to Sessions. >Both "concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media," Sessions said in a statement.
The Wall Street Journal’s stories in late 2016 prompted Republicans to call for McCabe to recuse himself from the Clinton email investigation. At the time, Trump began calling out McCabe on the campaign trail.
>Internally at the FBI, some senior officials agreed that McCabe should be walled off from the Clinton-related probe, and days before Election Day 2016 he recused himself.
Republicans then began calling for the Justice Department’s inspector general – or IG – to investigate why McCabe didn’t recuse himself earlier >And in January 2017, the inspector general’s office announced it had launched an investigation into, among other things, “allegations that the FBI Deputy Director should have been recused from participating in certain investigative matters.”
MCCABE MISLEADS INVESTIGATORS? >“In the course of the IG’s investigation and a kind of related Inspection Division investigation, I was asked about my decision to share information” with the Wall Street Journal, McCabe told ABC News.
According to Sessions, McCabe "lacked candor -- including under oath -- on multiple occasions." >"The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability," Sessions said in his statement. In recommending that McCabe be fired, the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility noted that >"all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand," Sessions added.
Liam Morales
If Andrew McCabe was actually an impartial law enforcement official, in his statement after being fired he would have directly addressed his own agency's allegations against him and proclaimed his innocence, not attack the president.
> What's candor mean in this context? > What does lacking candor mean Given the context and what he said in his statement it likely means "lying by omission", being asked a direct question and not answering truthfully when the investigator has written evidence proving he knew the answer.
> The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. > The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. > I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. > The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. This establishes he was indeed grilled by the IG.
> The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. > During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And here is the bottom line
> And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them. They got him on a lie most likely. Then he tried to backtrack but it was too late.
Because the inspector general’s report has not been released publicly yet, it’s still unclear exactly why investigators believe McCabe was not forthcoming, or if McCabe is criticized for other actions.
McCabe, however, insisted he answered investigators’ questions >“to the best of my ability, best recollection I had at those times.” He noted that he was questioned in the midst of a >“chaotic time” for him, in the wake of Comey’s firing and his temporarily taking an agency “reeling from the loss of their director.”
According to McCabe, after he was questioned by investigators, he realized he needed to clarify some of his responses, >so he “proactively reached out to those people to ensure that they clearly understood what my position was." He would not offer any further details. >“I have tried at every juncture to be as accurate and of course truthful in all of my encounters with whoever was interested in asking questions about that article or anything else,” McCabe said. >“The idea of being condemned or miscast in any way contrary to that is just unbelievably disappointing and really offensive to me.”
McCabe insisted to ABC News that the media disclosures he authorized did not constitute “a leak.” “This is not a clandestine contact with a reporter,” he said. >“It was done by my media representative and my counselor. It took place over the course of several days. ... So to be kind of retrospectively misrepresented as sort of a clandestine secretive leak is sort of just – it’s not the case and it’s just an unfair portrayal.”
Gabriel Cox
Asked whether he believes the Justice Department’s inspector general, with its report targeting him, is complicit in what he described as the “ongoing assault” on the FBI, McCabe simply answered: “I don’t know.”
>“What I do know is that the IG has been subjected to intense pressure by the [Republican] chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,” McCabe added >“I do know that the IG is under pressure from the President, who tweeted demanding results in these investigations.”
>“After 21 years at what I still believe is the greatest organization on earth, having had to go through this gauntlet of public criticism and ridicule by none other than the President of the United States has been unbelievably trying. But I understand it for what it is,” McCabe said.
Why is prostution illegal again? If it were legalized, elliot rodgers or that school shooter boy wouldnt be blowing brains out on our streets. >Also, fuck religionfags
>#Syria Smoke above #Afrin town >not from shelling, seems #YPG set public facilities on fire before retreat LMAO, they tried to halfassedly raze the town before the Turks arrive
Besides operating as an unregistered foreign agent, lying about meetings with foreign diplomats and lying to the vice president. Yeah, he's a real stand up guy.
