Via Daily Caller:
FBI director Christopher Wray put pressure on deputy director Andrew McCabe to resign after reviewing an inspector general report on the bureau’s handling of investigations pertaining to the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times reports.
“In a recent conversation, Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, raised concerns about a forthcoming inspector general report examining the actions of Mr. McCabe and other senior F.B.I. officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, when the bureau was investigating both Hillary Clinton’s email use and the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia”
News of McCabe’s abrupt announcement came Monday after previous reports indicated he would retire in early March. McCabe has long been a source of political controversy in the bureau, after it was revealed his wife had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from Clinton-allied political groups during a local race in Virginia.