The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen an Luis Sanchez was posted on the Hill website March 17, 2018:
Former FBI Director James Comey ripped President Trump just hours after the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, saying Americans will “judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.”
The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website March 16, 2018:
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on March 15 said former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe “has had some very troubling behavior.” (Reuters)
Andrew McCabe stepped down as the FBI’s deputy director in January and had planned to officially retire on Sunday, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired him Friday night — a little more than 24 hours before the 20-year bureau veteran would have qualified for full retirement benefits.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had said on Thursday that President Trump would leave the decision to Sessions. “But,” she added, “we do think that it is well documented that he’s had some very troubling behavior and, by most accounts, [is] a bad actor.” In addition, Trump in tweets had musedabout McCabe’s pension and suggested Sessions should have removed him sooner. Continue reading “Five reasons Trump would have wanted Andrew McCabe fired”
Former FBI Director James Comey gave his support to departing Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Monday, saying McCabe “stood tall over the last 8 months, when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on.”
“He served with distinction for two decades. I wish Andy well,” Comey tweeted.
The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website January 29, 2018:
Andrew McCabe, who has faced repeated criticism from President Trump, is stepping down as deputy director of the FBI and will formally retire in March. (Elyse Samuels, Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
Hours before news broke that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would step down immediately and officially retire in March, a spokesman for President Trump faced the following question from CNN’s Chris Cuomo: “Does [the president] regret pushing on [FBI Director Christopher] Wray to get rid of Andrew McCabe?”
“Well, uh, let’s just step back for a second and say the president has spoken at length — and so have members of Congress — about political influence at the highest ranks of the FBI,” deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah replied. “Remember, the president promoted Andrew McCabe and made him the acting director when James Comey was removed.” Continue reading “A Trump spokesman’s revealing comments about Andrew McCabe, hours before McCabe quit the FBI”
The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2018:
President Trump on Jan. 24 said he didn’t recall asking then-acting FBI director Andrew McCabe last year whom he voted for in the 2016 election. (Video: David Nakamura/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
We just found out Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe received treatment from President Trump that has become oh-so-familiar to leading law enforcement officials: They are asked to do or respond to something with clear political and personal overtones, and are left uncomfortable about the whole thing.
The following article by Ellen Nakashima, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett was posted on the Washington Post website January 23, 2018:
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year. Here’s what you need to know about him. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)
Shortly after President Trump fired his FBI director in May, he summoned to the Oval Office the bureau’s acting director for a get-to-know-you meeting.
The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website January 23, 2018:
President Trump said on Jan. 23 that he’s not concerned “at all” about special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s interview with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (The Washington Post)
The defining moment of Jeff Sessions’s time as attorney general has been when he recused himself from oversight of the Russia investigation. That quickly led to the appointment of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, who is now extensively probing President Trump. And by all accounts, it seriously strained Sessions’s relationship with Trump, who thinks Sessions should be protecting him and doing his bidding.
The following article by Ryan J. Reilly was posted on the Huffington Post website January 5, 2018:
Andrew McCabe had faced criticism because his wife received campaign donations from a political action committee affiliated with a Clinton ally.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee meeting on the FBI’s budget requests for FY2018 on June 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. McCabe became acting director in May, following President Trump’s dismissal of James Comey. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON ― FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades, did not have any role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation while his wife was running for Virginia state senator, according to documents disclosed Friday.
Trump and congressional Republicans have alleged that the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state was tainted because the campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe received nearly half a million dollars from a political action committee tied to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a close ally of the Clintons.
The FBI documents made public Friday show that McCabe had no oversight of the Clinton email investigation when it began in July 2015. At that time, McCabe was in the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the Clinton inquiry was being run out of FBI headquarters. His wife lost her election in November 2015. McCabe didn’t begin overseeing the Clinton investigation until months later, when he became deputy FBI director in February 2016. Continue reading “FBI No. 2 Targeted By Trump Had No Conflict In Clinton Probe, Documents Show”
The following article by Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb was posted on the CNN website December 22, 2017:
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. (Getty)
Washington (CNN) — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe faced numerous questions this week about his interactions, conversations and correspondence with his onetime boss, former FBI Director James Comey, spanning both the FBI’s Russia investigation and its probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to multiple sources from both parties with knowledge of his testimony.
In private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee this week, McCabe told lawmakers that Comey informed him of conversations he had with President Donald Trump soon after they happened, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Continue reading “Top FBI official grilled on Comey, Clinton in Hill testimony”
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe arrived at the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to face a grilling from the House Intelligence Committee amid concerns among some Republicans who believe the bureau is hopelessly biased against President Trump.
Former FBI Director James Comey ripped President Trump just hours after the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, saying Americans will “judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.”
