FBI No. 2 pressured to resign over McAuliffe donations to wife

Source: Washington Examiner | October 24, 2016 | Paul Bedard

The FBI’s second in command is facing pressure over donations Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a top Clinton ally, made to the official’s wife who was running an uphill battle against a popular conservative Northern Virginia state senator.

That senator, Dick Black, on Monday called for the resignation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Black said that McCabe, who later oversaw the probe into the Hillary Rodham Clinton email scandal, should have known McAuliffe was one of Clinton’s closest advisers and friends and recused himself from the probe of the Democratic presidential candidate.

“I call on Andrew McCabe to step down from the FBI for the good of all the agents who do the their work in in ethical and honest fashion,” Black told Secrets. “What he has done has hurt the FBI.”

The Wall Street Journal reported the campaign payments steered by McAuliffe to McCabe’s wife, Jill, in the 2015 race. She lost to Black by 5 points.

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