US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions fires FBI’s Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe
On Friday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI’s Deputy Director Andrew McCabe prompting an immediate rebuke from McCabe who said he is facing political retaliation by President Donald Trump.
McCabe was fired just days before he would have been eligible for a
lifetime pension after determining that he lied to investigators
reviewing the bureau’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
"Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of
the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional
Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career
official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective
immediately," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.
Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
"After an extensive and fair investigation and according to
Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the
Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct
by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility
(OPR)," Sessions said.
McCabe hit back in a fiery response of his own saying "This
attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to
slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement, and
intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said. "It is part of
this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the
Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their
persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the
Special Counsel’s work.
"For the last year and a half, my family and I have been the
targets of an unrelenting assault on our reputation and my service to
this country," McCabe continued. "Articles too numerous to count have
leveled every sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against
us. The President’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He
called for my firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension
after more than 20 years of service. And all along we have said nothing,
never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the
lies told and repeated about us. No more."
President Donald Trump reacted to the news in a Twitter that reads, "Andrew
McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI
- A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and
made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and
corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!"
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