美司法部長開除聯調局二把手麥凱布
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has been fired -- effective immediately, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement released late Friday.
McCabe, at one time the No. 2 official in the agency whom President Donald Trump has publicly criticized for alleged political bias and reportedly wanted fired, stepped down from the agency Jan. 30. He had planned to retire on Sunday -- his birthday -- with full benefits. However, now that he has been fired, some or all of his pension could be at risk.
McCabe was thrust into controversy just days before the 2016 presidential election when it was disclosed that his wife, Jill McCabe, a Democratic candidate for a seat in the Virginia Senate in 2015, had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from a political action committee controlled by a friend of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — then-Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe.
Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee, used the disclosure to question the FBI's impartiality in investigating Clinton's use of a private email server, before it declined to bring criminal charges against her.
At the time, the FBI said that McCabe had consulted bureau ethics officials and that he and FBI lawyers "implemented a system of recusal from all FBI investigative matters involving Virginia politics."
After Trump abruptly fired then-FBI Director James Comey over the Russia investigation in May 2017, Attorney General Sessions elevated McCabe to acting director.
McCabe responded to the news late Friday, saying he believed he was being "singled out" for things he witnessed when Trump fired Comey.
McCabe served 22 years with the FBI.美國司法部長塞申斯星期五晚上發佈聲明說，前美國聯邦調查局副局長安德魯·麥凱布(Andrew McCabe)被開除公職，立即生效。
曾經是聯調局二把手的麥凱布曾經被川普總統公開批評有政治偏見。有報道說，川普總統早就想解僱他。麥凱布1月30號卸去副局長的職務，計劃星期天、也是他的生日那天退休，享受所有退休福利。但是，他現在被解僱，他的部分、甚至全部退休金能否保留都成問題。
美國2016年大選前夕，麥凱布捲入一場爭議。他的妻子2015年作爲民主黨人競選維吉尼亞州參議員的時候從民主黨總統候選人希拉里·克林頓的朋友、當時維吉尼亞州長特里·麥考利夫控制的政治行動委員會的捐款裏拿了數十萬美元。
當時是共和黨總統候選人的川普根據這個消息質疑聯邦調查局在調查希拉剋使用私人電郵服務器問題上的公正性。後來聯調局拒絕對希拉里·克林頓提出刑事指控。
聯邦調查局當時說，麥凱布諮詢了聯調局負責職業操守的官員，他和聯調局律師設立了一個迴避系統，讓他迴避一切聯調局有關維吉尼亞州政治活動的調查。
川普總統解聘聯調局長科米的職務後，司法部長塞申斯讓麥凱布擔任代理局長。
麥凱布星期五晚上對他被解僱的消息做出迴應說，由於他看到川普解僱科米過程中發生的一些事，所以成爲被打擊的目標。
麥凱布在聯調局工作了22年。
