Attorney General Jeff Sessions gives former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe his walking papers a little more than a day before his official retirement. Sessions said, “McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
FBI's Andrew McCabe is fired just before retiring. Former deputy director became lightning rod for Clinton email and Russia probes. https://t.co/HdFbJinql8
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 17, 2018
Here’s Sessions full statement.
Sessions fires McCabe just ahead of retirement. Full statement. pic.twitter.com/tl7oUOczLs
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 17, 2018
And here is a statement from McCabe.
McCabe statement: pic.twitter.com/32vsbf6XWZ
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 17, 2018
Trump had long fixated on the idea that because McCabe’s wife ran for state Senate as a Democrat and took $ from Terry McAuliffe, he was somehow working for or on behalf of the Clintons
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) March 17, 2018
My prediction is that the McCabe firing, like the Comey firing, will end up backfiring.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 17, 2018
Sessions has fired McCabe to strip him of the automatic pension he would’ve received had he been allowed to stay on till his birthday the day after tomorrow. His offense was leaking some Clinton-related info in 2016 and not being forthright about it. Vindictive hypocrisy by Trump
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 17, 2018
Few stories make me feel physically ill the way this does. Trump’s vindictiveness is abnormal and dangerous: Andrew McCabe, a Target of Trump’s F.B.I. Scorn, Is Fired Over Candor Questions via @NYTimes https://t.co/0kjkJsaAOB
— Nicolle Wallace (@NicolleDWallace) March 17, 2018