Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe oversaw a federal investigation last year into whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions was fully forthcoming in his testimony to Congress about his contacts with Russian officials, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Top GOP and Democratic lawmakers learned about the probe last year in a private briefing with McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The probe has since been closed.
Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he fired McCabe on Friday night, according to ABC News. Sessions fired the FBI official for not being fully forthcoming with investigators and for making an unauthorized disclosure to the media.
It's the Ted Stevens template all over again.
With McCabe's latest self-justifying leak, I need someone to reassure me again that I need to have confidence in the straight-shooting non-partisan boy scouts of the DOJ, FBI, and IC
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 21, 2018
Weaponizing the government against the people and their representatives appears to be standard Democrap MO.
And how much gall does the FBI have in focusing on every Trump Associates casual contact with “Russian Agents” ... while ignoring or excusing HER Deep personal contacts and payoffs? Unmitigated GALL.
"McCabe reportedly opened the probe after then-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent a letter to the FBI asking the agency to investigate all of Sessions's contacts with Russians and to determine "whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred."
The FBI responds to ORDERS from Patrick Leahy...Hmmm Over the years he acts like A "Teflon Don" What other powers does he process... Did the Senate leadership KNOW about the FBI & did Mitch Ok... McCabe better be indicted & procecuted
Who nstructed the FBI to inestigate?
MacCabe doesn't need to worry about a pension from the gov, I'm sure he has a better one from the Clinton Fraudation.
Man, this is painful watching how slow these investigations are taking. I'm thinking they will be pretty close to wrapping up pretty close to the middle of trump's second term, if he has one.
Good thing the rank and file and local police in Austin had a greater sense of urgency wrapping up the bomber case.
The MSM always fails to mention that McCabe was fired based on a recommendation by the FBI, Sessions was incidental, a paper pusher in any non political sense.
Think about it, if any of us were accused of lying about our work and HR recommended firing, we'd be gone. No chance to answer, just a letter with an offer of severance conditional on not fighting the dismissal. Even questioning the reason for dismissal would result in withdrawal of whatever crumb over the legal minimum offered.
The leftist Deep State swamp actually consists of soupy smelly manure.
"We'll all hang if this gets out..... " -Hillary Clinton
Lets hope so......