FBI No. 2 pressured to resign over McAuliffe donations to wife
By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard)
Washington Examiner
10/24/16 1:59 PM
The FBI's second in command is facing pressure over donations Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a top Clinton ally, made to the official's wife who was running an uphill battle against a popular conservative Northern Virginia state senator.
That senator, Dick Black, on Monday called for the resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
Black said that McCabe, who later oversaw the probe into the Hillary Rodham Clinton email scandal, should have known McAuliffe was one of Clinton's closest advisers and friends and recused himself from the probe of the Democratic presidential candidate.
"I call on Andrew McCabe to step down from the FBI for the good of all the agents who do the their work in in ethical and honest fashion," Black told Secrets. "What he has done has hurt the FBI."
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"I can't tell you that there was a direct quid pro quo. What I can tell you is that his family was indebted to the governor to the tune of some $800,000 and then to turn around and to do something that clearly would cause Terry McAuliffe to blow his stack, that put him in a position that no federal judge, no prosecutor, no FBI agent would ever want to be placed in and where ethically there is absolutely no excuse for allow that clear appearance of impropriety," said Black.
