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What happens when the very institutions designed to protect democracy become targets of the power they're meant to check? In 1996, a young attorney named Andrew McCabe took a 50% pay cut to join the FBI, drawn by a sense of purpose he couldn't find in corporate litigation. Two decades later, he would find himself at the center of an unprecedented constitutional crisis-fired 26 hours before retirement by a president who viewed independent law enforcement as a personal threat. This isn't just one man's story of career sacrifice. It's a window into how fragile democratic guardrails really are when those sworn to protect them choose personal loyalty over constitutional duty. McCabe's journey from pursuing Russian mobsters in Brooklyn to defending the FBI's independence reveals an uncomfortable truth: the greatest threats to American democracy now come from within.