…just hours before he was eligible to retire with a pension and health benefits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-fired.html

I guess this sends a clear message, and a stern warning, to anyone contemplating cooperating with the Mueller investigation. I wonder what morale must be like at the FBI right now.

WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director and a frequent target of President Trump’s scorn, was fired Friday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend.

The Russians assassinate their political enemies, or exile them to Siberia. In America, they just ruin your career and your livelihood.
Not surprisingly, Conservative nemesis Hillary Clinton figures prominently in the Trumped-up charges against McCabe. Ms Clinton also
was the justification for Mr Comey’s dismissal.

Mr. McCabe was among the first at the F.B.I. to scrutinize possible Trump campaign ties to Russia. And he is a potential witness to the question of whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice. Mr. Trump has taunted Mr. McCabe both publicly and privately, and Republican allies have cast him as the center of a “deep state” effort to undermine the Trump presidency.

As a witness, Mr. McCabe would be in a position to corroborate the testimony of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who kept contemporaneous notes on his conversations with Mr. Trump. Mr. Comey said Mr. Trump prodded him to publicly exonerate the president on the question of Russian collusion and encouraged him to shut down an investigation into his national security adviser.