Homo Racist Coward In Chief Trumpo Fires FBI deputy Andrew McCabe In Vain Effort To Cover Up The Trump Russia Collusion, Sexual Assaults and Doing Business With America's Enemies

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Former FBI deputy Andrew McCabe fired by attorney general

The Associated Press Posted: Mar 16, 2018 10:31 PM ET

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Friday night that he was
firing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a longtime and frequent
target of President Donald Trump's anger, just two days before his
scheduled retirement date.

The move, which had been expected, was made on the recommendation of FBI
disciplinary officials and comes ahead of an inspector general report
expected to conclude that McCabe was not forthcoming with the watchdog
office as it reviewed the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation.


Andrew McCabe, frequent Trump target at FBI, stepping down early
Sessions said in a statement that investigators "concluded that Mr. McCabe
had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor —
including under oath — on multiple occasions."

McCabe immediately disputed the findings in his own statement, saying the
firing was part of a Trump administration "war" on the FBI.

"I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played,
the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the
firing of James Comey," McCabe said, referring to the former FBI director
who was fired by Trump last May.

Scrutiny over Clinton probe

Though McCabe had spent more than 20 years as a career FBI official, and
had played key roles in some of the bureau's most recent significant
investigations, Trump repeatedly condemned him over the last year as
emblematic of an FBI leadership he contends is biased against his
administration. The White House had said the firing decision was up to the
Justice Department but seemed to signal this week that it would welcome
the move.

The termination is symbolic to an extent since McCabe had been on leave
from the FBI since last January, when he abruptly left the deputy director
position. But it comes just ahead of his planned retirement, on Sunday,
and puts his ability to receive pension benefits into jeopardy.

McCabe came under scrutiny from the Justice Department's inspector
general's office over an October 2016 news report that revealed differing
approaches within the FBI and Justice Department over how aggressively the
Clinton Foundation should be investigated. The watchdog office had
concluded that McCabe had authorized FBI officials to speak to a Wall
Street Journal reporter for that story and that he had not been
forthcoming with investigators about that — something McCabe denies,
according to one person familiar with the matter.

Officials at the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility had
recommended the firing, leaving Justice Department leaders in a difficult
situation. Sessions, whose job status has for months appeared shaky under
blistering criticism from Trump, risked inflaming the White House if
McCabe were to not be fired. But a decision to dismiss McCabe two days
before his firing carried the risk of angering his rank-and-file
supporters at the FBI.

Well-liked by 'vast majority' of FBI

McCabe, a lawyer by training, enjoyed a rapid career ascent in the bureau
after joining in 1996. He was the FBI's top counterterrorism official
during the Boston Marathon bombing and later the FBI's national security
branch and its Washington field office, one of the bureau's largest,
before being named to the deputy director position.

But he became entangled in presidential politics in 2016 when it was
revealed that his wife during an unsuccessful bid for the Virginia state
Senate had received campaign contributions from the political action
committee of then-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close Clinton ally. The
FBI has said McCabe received the necessary ethics approval about his
wife's candidacy and was not supervising the Clinton investigation at the
time the contributions were made.

He became acting director following the firing last May of Comey, and
immediately assumed direct oversight of the FBI's investigation into
possible co-ordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. As a
congressional hearing two days after Comey's dismissal, McCabe
contradicted White House assertions that the Trump campaign investigation
was one of the "smallest things" on the FBI's plate and also strongly
disputed the administration's suggestion that Comey had lost the respect
of the bureau's workforce.

"I can tell you that the majority, the vast majority of FBI employees,
enjoyed a deep and positive connection to Director Comey," McCabe said.

McCabe was among the officials interviewed to replace Comey as director.
That position ultimately went to Christopher Wray.

On Thursday, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told
reporters the decision was up to the Justice Department but said "we do
think that it is well documented that he has had some very troubling
behavior and by most accounts a bad actor and should have some cause for
concern."