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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLast Year, McCabe Launched a FBI Perjury Investigation Into Sessions. This Year, Sessions Fired Him.
Interesting that Sessions attorney speaks for him.
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Last Year, Andrew McCabe Launched a FBI Perjury Investigation Into Jeff Sessions. This Year, Sessions Fired Him.[/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/last-year-mccabe-launched-perjury-investigation-into-sessions-this-year-sessions-fired-him.htmlb]
By Elliot Hannon
March 21, 20188:26 PM
WASHINGTON, DC -
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was symbolically and summarily fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions hours before his official retirement last week, authorized a criminal investigation into Sessions in the aftermath of his misleading testimony during his confirmation hearing in January 2017, ABC News reported Wednesday. The investigation of Sessions for perjury was previously unknown to the public, although according to ABCs reporting, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were briefed on the investigation last year by McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Details on the exact timing and extent of the investigation remain sketchy, but NBC News reports the inquiry was ultimately subsumed by special counsel Robert Muellers probe after Rosenstein named him May 17, 2017. From ABC News report it sounds as if the investigation remained active until as recently as two months ago when Sessions was interviewed by Muellers investigators. Two months ago, Sessions was interviewed by Muellers team, and the federal inquiry related to his candor during his confirmation process has since been shuttered, according to a lawyer representing Sessions.
The Special Counsels 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, Sessions attorney Chuck Cooper said in a statement Wednesday. That remains to be confirmed. Its unclear how actively federal authorities pursued the matter in the months before Sessions interview with Muellers investigators, according to ABC News. Its also unclear whether the special counsel may still be pursuing other matters related to Sessions and statements he has made to Congressor otherssince his confirmation.
One other point of interest with potential legal ramifications is whether Sessions was aware he was under investigation for his confirmation testimony where he said he had not met with any Russians during the Trump campaign despite meeting with then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak multiple times. If Sessions was aware he was the target of an investigation initiated by McCabe that would change the context of McCabes last-minute dismissal, robbing McCabe of his pension benefits, for vague claims of wrongdoing. McCabe has said he believes he is the subject of smear campaign by the Trump administrationthat has been spearheaded by the president himselfas part of an effort to brand him as partisan and untrustworthy in order to discredit his potential testimony against Trump. McCabe would likely be a key witness in any investigation into Trump obstructing justice given his high profile role at the FBI during James Comeys tenure and dismissal. In that context, McCabes departure, minimally, could be seen as a parting reprisal by a jilted boss. ABC News cited one source saying that Sessions was unaware of the investigation when he sacked McCabe, but Sessions attorney declined to confirm to the network that the attorney general was unaware of the investigation. ..........................
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Last Year, McCabe Launched a FBI Perjury Investigation Into Sessions. This Year, Sessions Fired Him. (Original Post)
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(51,590 posts)1. I heard this covered on MSNBC tonight
but I doubt anyone believes Sessions did NOT know...sound like BS to me.