1. Andrew George McCabe was born on March 18,1968 and is an American attorney who served as the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 2016 to March 2018 and as the acting Director of the FBI from May 9,2017, to August 2,2017.
Andrew McCabe serves as a professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government.
Andrew McCabe became a supervisory special agent in 2003 and held management positions of increasing responsibility until he was appointed deputy director of the FBI in February 2016.
Andrew McCabe later departed from the FBI on poor terms with Trump.
Sessions announced that he based his decision on reports from the DOJ Inspector General and the FBI's disciplinary office saying that Andrew McCabe had improperly authorized releases of information to The Wall Street Journal about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and had misled agents who questioned him about it on four occasions, three of which were under oath.
Andrew McCabe disputed these charges and alleged that his firing was politically motivated.
In September 2019, federal prosecutors recommended Andrew McCabe be indicted for actions relating to the leak, but the grand jury did not return an indictment.
In October 2021, Andrew McCabe settled with the Justice Department a wrongful termination suit he had filed in August 2019.
Andrew McCabe graduated from The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1986.
Andrew McCabe graduated from Duke University in 1990 and obtained a JD degree from Washington University in St Louis in 1993.
Andrew McCabe was a brother of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Andrew McCabe began his FBI career in the New York Field Office in 1996.
Later, Andrew McCabe held management positions in the FBI Counterterrorism Division, the FBI National Security Branch and the FBI's Washington Field Office.
Andrew McCabe was part of the investigation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Andrew McCabe secured the arrest of Ahmed Abu Khattala for suspected involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack.
In March 2018, it was reported that, upon receiving a referral from Congress in 2017, Andrew McCabe had authorized a criminal investigation into whether Sessions had lied to Congress in 2017 about his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak; the investigation was later closed.
On May 9,2017, Andrew McCabe became acting director of the FBI after Trump dismissed Comey as director.
Shortly after Trump fired Comey, Andrew McCabe visited the White House for an introductory meeting in the Oval Office with the president, during which time Trump reportedly asked him for whom he had voted in the 2016 election.
However, no interim director was named, and Andrew McCabe remained as acting director.
Christopher A Wray was ultimately nominated as the new director on June 7,2017, and confirmed on August 1,2017, at which point McCabe reverted to his position as deputy director.
Andrew McCabe's revelation prompted Senate Judiciary Chairman, Chuck Grassley, to promise investigation of the claims.
In July 2016, Andrew McCabe decided that the New York FBI office would continue investigating, with assistance from Little Rock.
The investigation ceased one year later, in January 2018, with the release of FBI documents showing that Andrew McCabe had followed FBI protocol regarding potential conflicts of interest.
In 2015, before his wife, Jill Andrew McCabe, ran for political office in Virginia, Andrew McCabe had notified the FBI about her plans and consulted with the FBI about how he would avoid a conflict of interest.
Andrew McCabe did not oversee the Clinton email server probe while his wife was running for office, and he was excluded from FBI investigations into public corruption cases in Virginia.
Andrew McCabe's role began in February 2016, following his appointment as deputy director and three months after his wife lost her bid for a state Senate seat.
Andrew McCabe was interviewed twice by the Inspection Division, in May and August 2017, and the conflicting information in those interviews led the OIG to open an investigation in late August 2017.
However, Andrew McCabe's testimony was in classified session and no public transcript is available to confirm the Nunes memo assertion; disclosing contents of the classified testimony would be unlawful.
In regards to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the Justice Department Inspector General report published on December 9,2019, did not find Andrew McCabe engaged in politically biased actions against Trump.
Andrew McCabe then went on paid leave until his scheduled retirement date of March 18,2018, his 50th birthday, at which point he would be eligible for a retirement pension.
On March 14,2018, it was reported the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, citing the inspector general's conclusions, had recommended that Andrew McCabe be fired, although Andrew McCabe had been notified of the recommendation on March 8.
Andrew McCabe was dismissed less than two days before he would have collected a full early pension for his FBI career.
On March 29,2018, Andrew McCabe opened up a GoFundMe site to collect money for the legal costs arising from defending himself from the various investigations.
Andrew McCabe issued a response to the report, disputing its conclusions.
The report found that Andrew McCabe lied to or misled federal investigators at least four times, with three of these instances occurring while he was under oath.
McCabe's lawyer Michael R Bromwich responded that the investigation and report had been politicized by pressure from Trump, and announced that McCabe intended to sue the Trump administration and senior officials for "wrongful termination, defamation, Constitutional violations and more".
False statements made during the course of internal DOJ investigations are typically punished by administrative discipline, rather than criminal prosecutions, and Andrew McCabe's attorneys asserted he was being singled out.
Andrew McCabe's attorneys asserted the DOJ should drop the investigation if the grand jury did not return an indictment.
The Times noted political undertones of the case, as Andrew McCabe had authorized the investigation into whether Trump had obstructed justice, and as a result he had become a frequent target of Trump's ire.
Andrew McCabe filed a wrongful termination suit against the DOJ in August 2019, asserting his firing was intended to remove officials who had been deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump.
Andrew McCabe's suit says he is "entitled to his full law enforcement pension and all other benefits, privileges, and rights currently being withheld".
On October 14,2021, the Justice Department reversed Mr Andrew McCabe's firing, settling a lawsuit he filed asserting he was dismissed for political reasons.
The government agreed to pay more than $500,000 in legal fees Andrew McCabe had incurred and expunge any record of his being fired from FBI personnel records.
The Times reported in November 2022 that Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly said the president told him Comey and Andrew McCabe were among his perceived political enemies he wanted to "get the IRS on".
Trump's mishandling of classified documents, Andrew McCabe teamed up with podcaster Allison Gill, of Mueller, She Wrote fame, on a new podcast series, Jack, to follow the case.
Andrew McCabe is married to Jill Andrew McCabe, a physician specializing in pediatrics, who was the Democratic candidate for Virginia's 13th Senate District in 2015.
Andrew McCabe is a triathlete who occasionally biked 35 miles to work from his home in Ashburn, Virginia.