ABC News is reporting that before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for “lack of candor,” McCabe had been leading an investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe's previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.
One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.
McCabe has not taken his firing quietly, and it remains to be seen what else we will begin to find out about the FBIs investigations into the many suspicious characters in this administration.