Is it typical for the FBI to investigate the AG? Or the DOJ?
One unnamed source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the probe when he fired McCabe last week…
Yeah. Right. Just like Sessions was unaware of his contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
So there we have it. A clear conflict of interest and, quite possibly, obstruction by Sessions. There’s no way a sitting AG wouldn’t know he was being investigated, especially because Republicans on the Hill knew.
And unless I’m missing something, this was an FBI investigation - not a Mueller investigation - so I see Sessions’s attorney’s response as misdirection.
Talk about “lack of candor”.
Where does it end?
The only reason Mueller has not already indicted Jeff Sessions for several crimes including lying to congress is that an indictment would force Sessions to resign as AG allowing Trump to appoint someone who would then fire Mueller.
Hmmm, who leaked this? It makes me think there’s a party that wants Sessions to resign. I wonder who that could be?
Somewhere, an exiled Al Franken almost smiled…
ABC News mentions “unnamed sources”. Dollars to donuts it’s Mccabe’s people. This is why you don’t shit on the FBI needlessly. The gloves are definitely off and this juicy morsel is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Or the AG is wearing a wire!
I thought it would be Trump loyalists. Firing Lil Beauregard without having to actually fire him.
Laughing or crying? Or both?
“The Special Counsel’s 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, told ABC News.
If true, fine. But, Sessions could still be on the hook for conspiracy to violate campaign laws, obstruction of justice (including that related to his confirmation testimony) and just being a vile, racist, anti-LGBTQ, drug-phobic prick.
And this year’s recipient of the prestigious John Mitchell award (a signed photograph of Martha Mitchell) goes to…
As far as I know being a Republican is not yet illegal.
That is becoming debatable.
Laughing
This is why
Short answer: the idea was, Sessions gets fired, if he didn’t sack McCabe. Unfortunately folks didn’t foresee Sessions walking in Trump’s footsteps
completely unrelated but Hawking would be so proud to be on huffpost along with these two other articles
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week, himself oversaw a criminal investigation into Sessions’ testimony to Congress in early 2017, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Good grief. We have some very small puerile people running this country.