Trump probably insisted he fire Mueller this time. He probably refused...again.

Game over.

So officially on the payroll until then.

He's probably got the carryover max 240 hrs (30 days) annual leave plus 3 or 4 days accumulated for CY2018. That's 19 days which takes him to Friday, March 16th with the 17th/18th being the weekend.

It's do or die time.

If this was simply a matter of bookkeeping, wouldn't it be well-known long in advance?

He probably wanted to stay on and collect a paycheck as well as the pay for his accumulated leave when he retired. The job just probably got to be too much of a hassle, so he decided to use his accrued leave rather than try to hang in and save it. In essence he got jobbed out of 6 weeks salary.

So there was a financial disincentive to quitting early, but eventually the pressure overcame the disincentive.

Make sense!

And it does show that both things can be true - it's more-or-less an orderly departure, but also more-or-less influenced by Trump's obstruction.

tRump or that fucking stephen miller.

They work for different agencies.

Most do. This is nothing

That is not unusual in government jobs.

Unpaid leave is also an option.

him having plenty of leave time to use. I work for the state and will hit the 20 year mark in April which will increase my allowed accrued vacation time to go from maxing out at 640 to 680 hours. When the time comes for me to retire I have the choice of being paid for my annual leave, having it added to my state version of a 401K or take part payout and part into the 401K.

“FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down Monday, multiple sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

McCabe will remain on the FBI payroll until he is eligible to retire with full benefits in mid-March, the sources said.”

Retirement with full benefits...means he is not retiring??????

and you are entitled to be paid for any unused accrued vacation (leave) when you exit gov't service.

Anything over that, you use or lose it in the year you accumulate it. At his years of service, he's getting 1 day of annual leave/pay period (every 2 wks). It adds up pretty fast and sometimes is hard to use.

There is no panic here.

Who is panicking? (I believe no one is panicking, but in saying so, you certainly elevate yourself above the masses, regardless of the irrelevance of calmness))

Lesson #422: Idle and benign speculation on a message board does not equal panic.

That's weirdly ironic.

illustrious press that he was forced out because of his bias against the trump administration

and for those who do not believe that lie will resonate, just look at what the press did when Comey sent a letter to the republicans 11 days before the election. They media said the email investigation had been reopened, and paraded every republican and right wing politician across the television propagating that lie

"McCabe, who served a brief stint as acting director of the bureau, was already expected to leave. He will stay on "terminal leave" until he is eligible to retire with benefits in March, according to NBC."

to testify v. trump?

He can give any testimony he wants whether he works for the FBI or not.

Once again we had a coup and we have and had treason.

Fox and the GOP are trying to change the subject and sell the lie that
the Trump/Russia problem is really the fault of rouge agents in the FBI.
The walls are closing in on the Trump/GOP's Russian connections and
they know that this will take a lot of them down.

BTW we all have to get ready to fight.

I served 30 years in Federal Law Enforcement and rarely encountered any fellow progressives in the ranks. The FBI is especially conservative and hardcore Republican, but their personnel generally have decent morals and ethics. However, as with any organization there were some exceptions....

The Securities Exchange Commission, Labor, Equal Opportunity, housing, education, so many areas in which to do positive, helpful things.

The FBI does extremely important work, but liberals are more inclined to want to help their fellow citizens and to forward the interests of the citizens rather than arrest them.

Law enforcement would be rather depressing but intriguing I think.

What are you saying?

he's an anti-Trump dem who voted against Trump in the VA primary.

they are purging anyone who is not a tRump loyalist. Period. Constitutional Crisis here we come.

I find this very alarming that we get into this mode of who you voted for in the government impacting your job.

If the GOP has there way, they would have GOP in all positions in government. They would have all GOP in judicial positions, Only GOP in the military, etc.

Can you see where this could go? GOP is certainly moving this direction.

They might just know they just need to sit back and watch the dominoes fall, and maybe just how soon

The purge is beginning, I fear.

is neutralizing agencies who don't pledge alliance to fucking tRump. Putin must be so proud to take the country down.

I hate these SOB's they all need to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who's Next?

I hope some of his fellow agents nail Trump

Hope the rank and file feds hold the line against him.