Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late on Friday, March 16, for authorizing an anti-Trump FBI official to leak to the press and repeatedly lying about it under oath.
The inspector general at the Justice Department reported McCabe’s alleged misconduct to the FBI. The agency then conducted an investigation which “concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions,” Sessions wrote in a statement.
