Who Do You Trust?

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Who are you going to believe? Consider an established record and long career of public service following the law versus a lack of credibility following a series of lies and deceptions.

This past weekend's Friday Night Massacre occurred after US Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave in to his boss' increased pressure and fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe for leaking information to reporters and then lacking candor when asked about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbis-andrew-mcca…

McCabe immediately returned fire, calling his ouster an effort to undermine his credibility because of the work that he did on the Russia case https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/16/mccabe-fired-fbi-justice-reti… Mr. McCabe has few legal options https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/15/andrew-mccabe-fbi-legal-recou…

The McCabe firing. It was a rush to judgment. Whether the judgment itself is defensible or not is another question http://lawfareblog.com/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-firing-andrew-m…

The firing means the attorney general just violated Sessions promise of recusal. https://www.justsecurity.org/54037/sessions-firing-mccabe-violated-prom…

The firing was less significant to the outcome of the Mueller probe than many of McCabe’s defenders or detractors concede https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/03/17/on-mccabes-firing/

Our Constitutional appear to need scholarly judicial and legislative attention What's the difference between a constitutional crisis, constitutional rot, and constitutional infection? @qjurecic and @benjaminwittes explain. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/is-america-on-the-…