McCabe Fired as Recommended by FBI OPR

Andrew McCabe, who used to be the head of the FBI after Jim Comey was fired, was himself fired tonight.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions accepted the recommendation of the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility that McCabe be terminated because he lied both to Congress and under oath.  In Washington-speak, the OPR said McCabe was "not candid" in his testimony.  This is important.  The anti-Trump forces on the left will try to make this into an attack by Sessions on the special prosecutor, although it clearly is not that.  The truth doesn't matter to those folks, however.  The key here is that the non-partisan Inspector General and the non-partisan FBI OPR both recommended that McCabe be fired for his actions.  Sessions really had no choice but to fire McCabe.

Here's a bit of Sessions' statement on firing McCabe:

"After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility.  The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions."

It's good to see that the political corruption of the FBI will not be tolerated.