The U.S. Justice Department moved closer to a politically sensitive prosecution ...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department moved closer to a politically sensitive prosecution of former top FBI official Andrew McCabe on Thursday by rejecting a request from his legal team to drop the case, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
McCabe has said those attacks are part of an effort to undermine law enforcement and intelligence professionals. He has sued the Justice Department, arguing that he was fired for political reasons. The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which would prosecute the case, both declined to comment.
McCabe was fired in March 2018, just hours before he was due to retire, after the Department’s internal watchdog issued a report saying he misled investigators with the Inspector General’s office who were trying to determine whether he improperly shared information with a news reporter during the 2016 presidential election.
McCabe briefly served as the acting head of the FBI after Trump fired his boss, James Comey, in May 2017. He told CBS News that he strengthened an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia during that time out of fears that Trump or other administration officials would try to quash it. The Justice Department appointed Special Counsel Robert Muller to head the investigation shortly thereafter.
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