Posted on 03/22/2018 10:03:22 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Wait, What? Andrew McCabe Launched an FBI Investigation Into Attorney General Sessions Because Dems Asked Him To?
It's been less than a week since former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions after a recommendation for termination from the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility.
The drama surrounding the lawful and justified firing hasn't stopped since and late Wednesday night, ABC News dropped a bombshell story alleging Sessions was under FBI investigation last year for perjury. The man leading the charge? Andrew McCabe.
Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a "lack of candor," McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.
Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.
According to the report , the investigation came after Democrat Senators requested the FBI look into contacts Sessions had with the Russians during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign and the White House transition between November 2016 and January 2017.
According to the sources, McCabe authorized the criminal inquiry after a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote a letter in March 2017 to the FBI urging agents to investigate "all contacts" Sessions may have had with Russians, and "whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred."
Yikes.
As Mollie Hemingway notes over at The Federalist , this story was likely leaked to ABC by team McCabe or McCabe himself in an effort to undermine Sessions in the wake of his firing. That strategy is backfiring and instead bolsters accusations the FBI is highly politicized and allowing Democrat Senators, with whom they agree, to drive criminal investigations.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Or, to quote Q, BOOM.
Sleepy has no friggen idea what his FBI is doing. What a useless waste Sessions is.
This is a snapshot of the inner workings of the ecosystem of the Wash DC putrid swamp.
Deep state FBI and DOJ need to be under investigation sounds like some took KGB lessons?.
Yes, this is what is meant when we say that Obama weaponized the federal government.
Instead of performing their lawful primary functions, their new primary functions are protecting the political interests of the Democratic Party organized crime cartel.
We need a complete purge and hangings. This is extremely serious, coup-level sedition, and where foreign espionage is concerned (as in all matters related to Steele), treason.
Sessions is beyond useless.....he is a traitor.
Bump!
Like any large corporate entity, there is ALWAYS internal warfare. This is now coming to the surface. White Hats vs. the Black Hats. Hatfields and the McCoys.
Sessions needs to wake the hell up. Charges against McCabe and company should be filed for this abuse of government power and resources.
Democrats are still running this country. Elections be damned.
Support Free Republic, Folks!
Replace Sleepy with DiGenova.
Worse than Watergate.
PLEASE, Dear God, keep me alive long enough to be part of destroying this cancer, in Jesus' name, Amen
Yep. When we win we still lose. Dem are still running all the departments and with this new Omnibus bill, apparently Congress. And Trump will sign it.
I’ve been pretty much done with all of it for awhile now. This all just confirms my don’t give a damn. Nothing I can do but stand back and watch.
Didn’t McCabe pick his own retirement date and subsequently goofed and chose a date one or two days before he was eligible for government retirement pension? I believe I read that on Town Hall just a few days ago.
Democrat: I said Jump!
FBI: How High?
Republican: Hello, FBI?
FBI: We are not currently available. Your business is important to us. Please leave your name and call back number and someone will call back soon...
The LAST thing American politics wanted was a man like President Trump and the BEST one WE could hope for.
Thank You Lord for President Trump.
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