Read more: Analysis | Could getting Andrew McCabe fired come back to bite Trump? McCabe became acting director after that and assumed direct oversight of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign. His removal could add to the turmoil that has enveloped the FBI since Comey’s firing and as the FBI continues its Trump campaign investigation that the White House has dismissed as a hoax. With the FBI disciplinarians recommending the firing, Justice Department leaders were in a difficult situation. The FBI has said McCabe received the necessary ethics approval about his wife’s candidacy and was not supervising the Clinton investigation at the time.

Source: thestar March 17, 2018 16:03 UTC