EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official (McCabe) authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say

[fleur-de-lisa]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-fired-fbi-official-authorized-criminal-probe-sessions/story?id=53914006

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.

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe's previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.

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.

[HipChick]

1. K&R..For visibility...

[Kingofalldems]

2. His firing was obstruction of justice.

[malaise]

3. Oh My!

Get thee to the greatest page

[magicarpet]

4. Well if Rethugs were informed in a closed door session....

..... word surely leaked out to Sessions and the White House sure as shit !

[MineralMan]

5. Uh-oh...that certainly could lead to something.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. .

[MelissaB]

7. We can thank Al Franken AGAIN!!!!

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."

[poboy2]

8. What a horrific crime that has been committed against him

and the American people who want justice and not have our country sold out.

Those who demanded he resign should be ASHAMED.
This man may have played a key role in trying to save our country.

[MelissaB]

9. I couldn't agree more.

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. Yep. Damn, I miss him!

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[lame54]

11. No conflict of interest there

[asiliveandbreathe]

12. So, sessions not aware of mccabe's investigation - did sessions lie - again -

From article above...

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.

You cannot tell me that the several republicans and Democratic lawmakers informed of the probe didn't give him a heads up...seriously - I find that insulting to everyone's intelligence....

How did the ONE source know to tell ABC News that sessions was not aware of the investigation? - the sessions atty declined to confirm that..imagine that....

[SallyHemmings]

13. Mueller can't move fast enough

Franken did a tremendous job. He was the one who grilled Sessions.

Trump and his crime syndicate have created more activists

and voters than they anticipated. There will be a clean sweep of the Republicans in November. I hope there is a Country left.

[triron]

19. Sessions lawyers reportedly says he was told by Special Counsel

that Sessions is NOT under investigation.

[SkyDaddy7]

23. I sure HOPE youre correct...

But I have the same sinking feeling I had prior to the 2016 election...I’M NOT SURE WHY!?!

...I know we have won several special elections since then & we all seem to be extremely motivated...Not to mention we may have an enormous record breaking turn out of very young voters during a midterm which would be HUGE!!!

I honestly think it probably has more to do where I live in the Deep South that has a lot to do with the way I feel...For example here in many school districts if kids participated in the class walk out to show support for better firearm laws they were punished some were even suspended! Most adults around here act like children or worse, Cult Members, in their nonstop praising & defending of their DEAR LEADER TRUMP!!!

I live in the Twilight Zone…Where the populace is technically free but they choose to listen to only one source of info that lies to them 24/7/365...And reject all other forms of info especially if it comes from a source that values a free press, excellence in journalism, evidence based facts, the truth!

[shraby]

14. I don't see how he could not know if any republicans were told.

This is better than sliced bread!

[eleny]

15. Absolutely

I believe that someone leaked it.

[triron]

16. Where is msnbc?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Little elves don't do well in prison.

[IronLionZion]

20. If you come at these assholes, you best not miss

[BSdetect]

21. So the investigation found what?

[spanone]

22. with sessions in charge, i bet we'll never know