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EXCLUSIVE: Fired FBI official authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say
abcnews.go.com ^ | 03.21.2018 | Mike Levine

Posted on 03/21/2018 1:29:07 PM PDT by rxsid

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

By Mike Levine

Mar 21, 2018, 4:01 PM ET

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: andrewmccabe; braking; california; candor; christopherwray; deepstate; devinnunes; dirtycops; fakenews; fbi; fisa; franken; jeffsessions; leahy; mccabe; perjury; rodrosenstein; russia; sessions; steeledossier
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To: rxsid
More back-filling by Marxists. Russia collusion is a phony story, so Sessions wasn't guilty of anything.
61 posted on 03/21/2018 2:06:47 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: rxsid

Bkmrk.


63 posted on 03/21/2018 2:08:02 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: rxsid

I don’t believe there was a Federal Investigation....they just grabbed some irrelevant info and called Sessions a liar.


64 posted on 03/21/2018 2:09:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SuperLuminal

“The Russians would handle this kind of treachery appropriately...”

Moscow would not be amused. A couple of guys from Bulgaria with special umbrellas.


65 posted on 03/21/2018 2:11:08 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ifinnegan
How can McCabe have made such a decision of had authority to do so?

Who approved it??? It's a pretty big leap to investigating the Attorney General from a lower-level (from him) Justice Department employee. If this was Comey, he needs to be hauled in for questioning...

...by a Prosecuting Attorney, not other Justice minions.

66 posted on 03/21/2018 2:11:56 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: rxsid

Nobody expects the Mueller Investigation!!!

-PJ

67 posted on 03/21/2018 2:12:20 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: BeauBo

“Could Sessions be toying with his prey before the kill, like a cat?”

He’s just toying with himself.


68 posted on 03/21/2018 2:12:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Vaquero

“This is blindfold and firing squad territory.”

And no cigarette either...bad for their health.


69 posted on 03/21/2018 2:14:00 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: shelterguy
That’s why he was supporting his wife running as a democrat and accepting $700k from hillarys people?

From the linked article:

"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."

Sounds like McCabe was taking his marching orders from Democrats. Also, Rod Rosenstein is up to his keester in this, and should be fired.

70 posted on 03/21/2018 2:14:36 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Everyone wants him to say perjury....but that is specific.

Lack of Candor.....means he was not truthful and forthcoming. It's very broad.

71 posted on 03/21/2018 2:15:17 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Pearls Before Swine; All
"...he has considered himself a Republican all his life....

Much like Bruce Jenner and Bradley Manning; they can 'consider' themselves to be girls, but the evidence says otherwise.

72 posted on 03/21/2018 2:15:51 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Sacajaweau
I don’t believe there was a Federal Investigation....they just grabbed some irrelevant info and called Sessions a liar.

Not only was there an investigation, but this news is the first step in exposing the story BEHIND the investigation.

Start putting this together with the phony FISA warrants, people.

Sessions was under surveillance during the 2016 campaign. This was the REAL reason why he had to recuse himself from the Russia-Trump collusion investigation. He cannot oversee an investigation in a criminal case where he already knows he was one of the VICTIMS.

73 posted on 03/21/2018 2:16:07 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: rxsid

Hey Jeff! How does it feel now? Make your blood boil? This is the kind of crap you let Trump suffer through since day one. So, suck it up butter cup and get some indictments.... or apologize for firing McCabe and go hide again.


74 posted on 03/21/2018 2:16:48 PM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And Franken is now history. Leaky Leahy will soon be gone physically. He has to be on up there in age. Is he taking Alzheimers meds yet?


75 posted on 03/21/2018 2:18:14 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Vaquero

[This is blindfold and firing squad territory.]

I am unable to disagree.


76 posted on 03/21/2018 2:18:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kalamata

Off the cuff comment and all, maybe that is why God is allowing those countries to fall to Islam. Or at least be destabilized for a time. They have totally lost their way. Maybe those places being overrun by invaders will cause their spying and ‘iron hand’ criminal enterprise (Soros/Clinton/Bambi/etc.) to fall.


77 posted on 03/21/2018 2:18:25 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT
The anti- Sessions folk’s are deeply sadden....

Are people supposed to be happy with the recused Sessions, and with Rosenstein in charge?

78 posted on 03/21/2018 2:18:43 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: rxsid; All
Gee, where was the investigation into Holder, before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.

Director Clapper lied under oath to Congress in 2013, where was the investigation into Clapper?

Director Brennan lied when he said “Let me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the Senate", where was the investigation into Brennan?

79 posted on 03/21/2018 2:22:26 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: ifinnegan
They really are making the argument that secret police are the final authority, not elected officials or the branches of government.

That's what one gets when we have an "independent" DOJ.

80 posted on 03/21/2018 2:23:04 PM PDT by FreeReign
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