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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 30 January 2018
FBI’s McCabe

Continued from Front cluding her 33,000 illegally
deleted emails) be given
In a message Monday to FBI $700,000 for wife’s cam-
employees, Wray said that paign by Clinton Puppets
McCabe would be retiring during investigation?”
on March 18 and denied Another of the president’s
that the move stemmed tweets from last year said:
from political pressure. “Why didn’t A.G. Sessions
“I will not be swayed by replace Acting FBI Direc-
political or other pressure in tor Andrew McCabe, a
my decision-making,” Wray Comey friend who was in
wrote. charge of Clinton investi-
The exit comes amid the on- gation,” referring to Attor-
going investigation by spe- ney General Jeff Sessions.
cial counsel Robert Muel- White House spokeswom-
ler into whether the Trump an Sarah Huckabee Sand-
campaign improperly co- ers told reporters Monday
ordinated with Russia to in- that Trump was not part of In this June 7, 2017 file photo, then-acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe pauses during a Senate
Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
fluence the outcome of the the decision-making pro- Associated Press
2016 presidential election. cess but that he stood by
That investigation includes his criticism of McCabe. said he does not recall ask- “FBI Deputy Director An- attacks on the FBI and
a focus on whether Trump Though McCabe has ing that question. drew McCabe is, and has DOJ to distract attention
sought to obstruct the in- pushed back against White McCabe’s defenders in- been, a dedicated public from a legitimate crimi-
quiry by, among other ac- House narratives that Com- side and outside the FBI call servant who has served this nal inquiry does long term,
tions, firing Comey. Mc- ey was not well-liked within him a thoughtful, intelligent country well,” former At- unnecessary damage to
Cabe has been repeatedly the bureau, and that an and committed career torney General Eric Holder these foundations of our
assailed by Trump since the ongoing FBI investigation agent. tweeted Monday. “Bogus government.”q
fall of 2016, when it was into Trump campaign ties
revealed that his wife had to Russia was not a signifi-
accepted campaign con- cant matter. But he has not
tributions from the political publicly discussed in detail
action committee of then- his interactions with Trump
Virginia Gov. Terry McAu- or shared any personal ob-
liffe, a Democrat and close servations of the president.
Clinton ally, during a failed That could change upon
state Senate run. his departure from the FBI.
That episode is among the Comey, for instance, au-
decisions under review by thorized after his firing a
the Justice Department’s close friend to share with
inspector general, which reporters details of his own
Is examining how the FBI encounters with the presi-
handled its investigation dent that he said troubled
into Hillary Clinton’s use of him. And former CIA Di-
a private email server. That rector John Brennan and
report is expected to be James Clapper, the retired
completed soon. national director of intelli-
The FBI has said McCabe gence, have been outspo-
received the necessary ken about their own views
ethics approval before his of Trump.
wife received the dona- McCabe became deputy
tions, and that at the time director in 2016 following
of the contributions, he earlier jobs running the FBI’s
was not in a supervisory Washington field office
role of the Clinton email and serving as head of its
investigation. But that has national security branch. A
not stopped Trump and Duke University-educated
Republican lawmakers in lawyer, he joined the FBI in
Congress from repeatedly 1996 and worked on orga-
asserting that McCabe, nized crime in New York.
and other FBI officials, are He took over as acting di-
partisan law enforcement rector following Trump’s
officials harboring a bias May 9 firing of Comey, and
against him. was among the officials
Responding December interviewed for the posi-
news reports that McCabe tion, which ultimately went
would retire, the president to Wray, a former Justice
wrote: “How can FBI Dep- Department official. The
uty Director Andrew Mc- Washington Post reported
Cabe, the man in charge, last week that Trump asked
along with leakin’ James McCabe whom he had
Comey, of the Phony Hillary voted for in the presiden-
Clinton investigation (in- tial election, but Trump has