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Raw Story
April 2, 2018
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired last month after heavy criticism from President Donald Trump, has raised more than half a million dollars in online donations to cover his legal costs. McCabe spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said that his GoFundMe campaign would stopÃâà...
NPR
April 2, 2018
A legal defense fund for fired FBI official Andrew McCabe has more than tripled its financial goals and will soon close up shop, a spokeswoman said Monday. McCabe's "GoFundMe" page has collected more than $537,000 from nearly 13,000 donors since it was established last week. The former FBI deputyÃâà...
CNN
March 31, 2018
(CNN) The fundraising page for a legal defense fund for fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has managed to raise $500,000 within its first 48 hours. By Saturday morning, the GoFundMe page had far surpassed its updated fundraising goal of $250,000, largely through small donations, since itÃâà...
CNN
March 29, 2018
President Donald Trump cheered the firing of McCabe, who had previously worked under former FBI Director James Comey, on Twitter, writing "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - a great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss andÃâà...
SFGate
March 24, 2018
Former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe told his former colleagues "the country needs you," in an opinion column that was, by turns, defensive, resigned, emotional, and resolute on Friday night.
CBS News
March 24, 2018
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is speaking out over he was apparently fired from the bureau for a "lack of candor." McCabe authored an op-ed published in the Washington Post Friday night, claiming those accusations are "not true." "Not in my worst nightmares did I ever dream my FBI careerÃâà...
BloombergQuint
March 22, 2018
(Bloomberg View) -- Before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe for alleged dishonesty, McCabe led an investigation of Sessions for, well, dishonesty. This may or may not be proof of wrongdoing in McCabe's firing. Sessions's lawyer says the investigation of the attorneyÃâà...
SFGate
March 22, 2018
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe oversaw a criminal inquiry into Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his testimony to Congress about his contacts with Russian officials, ABC News reported Wednesday.
CNBC
March 21, 2018
FBI Director Christopher Wray says he did not allow politics to affect the way his agency was run in the firing of deputy director Andrew McCabe last week. McCabe was often a target of criticism from President Donald Trump. Wray says the ethic of doing things "by the book" extends to personnel decisions.
Vox
March 20, 2018
Andrew McCabe was a 21-year veteran of the FBI who, by most accounts, had a storied career. But if you're a Fox News viewer, you would know him as something else altogether: a corrupt “deep state” villain who was out to depose President Trump. McCabe, the former deputy FBI director, wasÃâà...
The New Yorker
March 17, 2018
Andrew McCabe, who turns fifty on Sunday, will be fine as he moves to the next stop in his career. The demeaning and unfair act that ended his law-enforcement career will be seen, properly, as a badge of honor. Still, this is far from a great day for the men and women of the F.B.I., who now know that theyÃâà...
ABC 57 News
March 17, 2018
(CNN) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday, less than two days shy of his retirement, ending the career of an official who had risen to serve as second-in-command at the bureau. McCabe had more recently been regularly taunted by PresidentÃâà...
WRAL.com
March 17, 2018
WASHINGTON — Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director and a frequent target of President Donald Trump's scorn, was fired Friday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend. McCabe promptly declared that his firing, and Trump's persistentÃâà...
KREM.com
March 17, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced late Friday he fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe effective immediately — just days before his retirement benefits would have set in. McCabe, who abruptly announced his intention to resign in January, was fired from the agency in the midst of a review intoÃâà...
KSHB
March 17, 2018
Andrew McCabe is describing his firing as part of President Donald Trump's "ongoing war" with the FBI and the special counsel investigation. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the former FBI deputy director Friday, two days before McCabe was set to retire, ending his two-decade career with the bureau.
WZZM
March 17, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, a regular target of President Donald Trump's anger and criticism, just two days before his scheduled retirement date. McCabe immediately decried the move and suggested it was part of the Trump administration'sÃâà...
SFGate
March 17, 2018
President Donald Trump weighed in on the firing of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on Twitter Friday night, calling it "a great day for Democracy." ... "Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy," Trump said in a tweet. "SanctimoniousÃâà...
Above the Law
March 17, 2018
At 10:00 p.m. Eastern on a Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired the Deputy Director of the F.B.I., Andrew McCabe, 48 hours before the brother got his pension. In entirely related news, Donald Trump has joined the motion to remove the Stormy Daniels case to federal court, in hopes that a federal court will be moreÃâà...
New York Times
March 16, 2018
WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director and a frequent target of President Trump's scorn, was fired Friday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend. Mr. McCabe promptly declared that his firing, and Mr. Trump'sÃâà...
New York Times
March 15, 2018
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reviewing a recommendation to fire the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, just days before he is scheduled to retire on Sunday, people briefed on the matter said. Mr. McCabe was a frequent target of attack from President Trump, whoÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
March 6, 2018
Your take on this zeroing in on Andrew McCabe's action and the way this Hillary Clinton email probe was handled. REP. TREY GOWDY (R-SC): Well those are three separate issues. You know I talked to Inspector General Horowitz a couple days ago and I know not to ask him what he's found and he's anÃâà...
HuffPost
March 5, 2018
Trump and his supporters have used the fact that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife ran for a state Senate seat as a Democrat to paint him as a Democratic partisan out to get Trump. Despite irrefutable evidence that the bureau's public actions before the election actually hurt Clinton, TrumpÃâà...
Politico
February 25, 2018
The GOP memo released earlier this month says then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified before the House Intelligence Committee in December that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court without some of the dossier informationÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
February 5, 2018
When asked if then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe told the Intel Committee behind closed doors that if not for the Steele dossier no FISA warrant would have been issued, he said that was taken "out of context" and that those were "not his exact words." He called the dossier "largely accurate."
Vanity Fair
December 31, 1999
Late Friday evening, ex-Deputy F.B.I. Director Andrew McCabe was fired by the Justice Department—just two days shy of his 50th birthday, and what would have been the first day of his retirement. The firing came after accusations that McCabe had misled members of the Justice Department during aÃâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
U.S. lawmakers reacted to the ousting of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, shortly after President Donald Trump attacked the fired FBI official again on Twitter. As Trump railed against claims that McCabe kept personal memos detailing his interactions with the president, some representativesÃâà...
Toronto Star
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department's inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe as part of its investigation into the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday night. McCabe, a frequent target of U.S.Ãâà...
The Week Magazine
December 31, 1999
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will release an internal investigation into the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton's emails in the next few weeks. The report is expected to single out former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for criticism. McCabe stepped down in January, amid sharpÃâà...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
The Justice Department's inspector general is expected to criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as part of its investigation into the bureau's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press Thursday night. McCabe, a frequent target ofÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department review is expected to criticize the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the disclosure of information about a continuing investigation to journalists, according to four people familiar with the inquiry. Such a damning report would giveÃâà...
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