Charles Grassley goes after Andrew McCabe for possible conflicts of interest

  In this post I wrote yesterday we learned that acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is under Federal investigation for a possible violation of the Hatch Act by publicly campaigning for his wife.

  It is not getting any better for Andrew McCabe today because it is being reported here that Charles Grassley has concerns about possible conflicts of interest in previous investigations and whether he should be allowed to conduct the investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia collusion scandal. He has sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein addressing these concerns. In question is Andrew McCabe’s independence

  Here is more:

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising questions about possible conflicts of interest with acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and the FBI’s investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Grassley released a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in which he raised concerns about McCabe’s independence. The letter comes as conservative media outlets are increasingly targeting McCabe and other officials involved in the investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia in the Kremlin’s efforts to influence the presidential election.

   One of the questions Charles Grassley is concerned about goes back to his wife’s campaign and the fact he did not recuse himself from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal even though his wife accepted a donation from the failed Presidential candidate:

Grassley noted that the Justice Department inspector general is investigating whether McCabe should have recused himself from the Hillary Clinton email probe, since McCabe’s wife got donations from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton ally, when she ran for a Virginia state Senate seat.

  And then there is the possibility that Andrew McCabe went after Michael Flynn unfairly for political reasons because the short-lived national security adviser was a witness against him in another proceeding:

“That evidence and the failure to recuse calls into question whether Mr. McCabe handled the Flynn investigation fairly and objectively, or whether he had any retaliatory motive against Flynn for being an adverse witness to him in a pending proceeding,” Grassley wrote.

  If this is true it is clear Andrew McCabe is a political partisan hack who should not be in charge of the Russian collusion scandal.

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