RadioOnFire.com - The controversy over President Trump's decision to fire FBI director James Comey, while he was in the middle of probing whether there was collusion involved in Russia's interference in the 2016 general election, is one act in a drama that Americans may have not seen take its final turn. As it turns out, the ex-director's interim replacement has himself faced questions into how he's handled his involvement in investigated matters; namely, the role he took up as deputy director during the probe into Hillary Clinton's email server debacle.
Andrew McCabe has long been respected in government, but he ascends to the acting director position with questions surrounding the ethics of his involvement in the Clinton investigation. When it was announced that the FBI would be looking into the handling of the Clinton investigation early this year, many thought McCabe should have recused himself and allowed others in the bureau to take the job over, due to his political ties to the Clintons. Critics of his involvement pointed to how his wife Jill once accepted donations from Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe [who is now the governor of Virginia], while making a bid for office.
The administration has maintained that Comey's firing was the result of how he played the FBI's investigation into Clinton. Ironically, McCabe would be thought to have acted on Clinton's behalf if he should indeed be found to have tilted the investigation, and not against the former Secretary of State, as Comey was alleged to have. Whatever the case, McCabe is not expected to hold the seat long, as there is talk that the next appointee to head the department should be selected and sent for confirmation in the senate within the coming days.
Source: newsweek.com
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