BREAKING: AG Jeff Sessions FIRES Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
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March 16, 2018
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March 17, 2018Rumors have been abuzzin’. Would former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe get canned before retirement?
AG Jeff Sessions has to decide today if he’s going to fire former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe before retirement pic.twitter.com/T8lnJj0G4s
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.@kimguilfoyle on possibility of Andrew McCabe being fired: “This is well within the purview of the Attorney General to make that decision, again, not the President’s. So, I believe that Jeff Sessions will make an honest & fair determination…” #TheFive https://t.co/D1xTqMrI30 pic.twitter.com/3KHCCEQL1g
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 16, 2018
Sessions pulled the lever. McCabe has been FIRED.
BREAKING: Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe fired, just days before retirement on Sunday – Washington Post
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 17, 2018
The Washington Post has the scoop:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday night fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a little more than 24 hours before McCabe was set to retire.
Sessions announced the decision in a statement just before 10 p.m., noting that both the Justice Department Inspector General and the FBI office that handles discipline had found “that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
He said based on those findings and the recommendation of the department’s senior career official, “I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”
As you’ve probably guessed, this will really affect McCabe’s retirement benefits. He was worried about that.
His firing — which was recommended by the FBI office that handles discipline — stems from a Justice Department inspector general investigation that found McCabe authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to the media about a Clinton-related case, then misled investigators about his actions in the matter, people familiar with the matter have said. He stepped down earlier this year from the No. 2 job in the bureau after FBI Director Christopher A. Wray was briefed on the inspector general’s findings, though he technically was still an employee.
So there you have it. It’s official.
