Attorney: Andrew McCabe's firing was 'deeply disturbing,' should make all federal employees fearful
by Katie Leach
| March 17, 2018 03:18 PM
The attorney for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s says his client's termination was “deeply disturbing," unprecedented, and reason to make all federal employees fearful.
“I have never before seen the type of rush to judgment – and rush to summary punishment – that we have witnessed in this case,†former Inspector General for Department of Justice and attorney Michael Bromwich wrote in a statement Friday after it was revealed late in the evening that McCabe's employment had been terminated before his 50th birthday Sunday, when he intended to officially retire and get a full pension.
“The result of this deplorable rush to judgment is to terminate Mr. McCabe before his long-anticipated retirement and deny him of the full pension and retirement benefits he would have otherwise earned through his 21 years of devoted service to the FBI and this country,†he continued.
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