According to the FBI account provided this month to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, White House Counsel Donald McGahn first received “derogatory information” about Porter in March 2017. White House aides have said they were caught off-guard by the allegations — originally published in the Daily Mail — and took swift action. In the FBI’s telling, the White House received a completed background investigation about Porter in July. By November, the FBI says, it detailed all the information to the White House, including the interviews, and closed its file in January. The White House later said the investigation into Porter was still open when he was dismissed.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 22:13 UTC