As deputy director of the FBI last year, Andrew McCabe opened a criminal investigation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a new report.
The investigation was sparked by a request from two Democratic senators who asserted that Sessions gave false testimony during his Senate confirmation hearing in January 2017 about contacts he had with Russia’s ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Sessions was cleared of any wrongdoing last year, after meeting with the special counsel’s office as part of the Russia investigation, according to ABC News.
“The Special Counsel’s office has informed me that after interviewing the attorney general and conducting additional investigation, the attorney general is not under investigation for false statements or perjury in his confirmation hearing testimony and related written submissions to Congress,” Chuck Cooper, an attorney for Sessions, told ABC News.
Sources told ABC News that Sessions was unaware of the investigation when he fired McCabe last Friday. The former FBI No. 2 was terminated just two days before his retirement for “lack of candor” during interviews with investigators from the Department of Justice’s office of the inspector general.
The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended to Sessions that McCabe be fired for misleading investigators about his role in authorizing media leaks prior to the 2016 election. McCabe gave the green light to an FBI attorney to speak to a Wall Street Journal reporter in October 2016 about the investigations into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation.
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