What We Know, and Don’t Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe - Lawfare

After all the appropriate cautions Wittes and Jurecic explain the rush to judgment - to force McCabe out before he retired as the final step in a long, vicious, and venal campaign by Tweets to get McCabe out.  It is obviously part of Trump's efforts to block the investigation of Trump's campaign and his finances. - gwc
What We Know, and Don’t Know, About the Firing of Andrew McCabe - Lawfare
by Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes

Anyone who is confidently pronouncing on the merits of Andrew McCabe’s firing Friday night is venturing well beyond the realm of known facts.

We certainly understand the instinct to rally to McCabe’s defense at a time when the president is issuing triumphant tweets and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is declaring him a “bad actor.” McCabe’s dismissal comes as part of a broader purge of the senior FBI leadership and specifically targets a man who behaved with extraordinary courage and dignity in the wake of James Comey’s firing last year. It is only natural for those repulsed by the president’s broader interactions with the FBI to assume the worst.

But on McCabe’s innocence or culpability for some infraction that might justify his dismissal, we will reserve judgment—and we caution others to as well. It is simply not clear at this stage whether or not the record will support his dismissal. KEEP READING