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Acting FBI Director Is Under Investigation For Democrat Campaign Activities
It is one thing, of course, to be a political operative and fundraiser and brand new to federal employment and violate the Hatch Act, it is quite another to be a career federal employee and second in command of an agency that is labeled “further restricted” and to blatantly violate the law. (This pamphlet gives the rules, note that the FBI employees are “further restricted” employees.) And that brings us to our subject, deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
McCabe has been in the limelight recently because he is now the acting FBI director until a new director is confirmed. He was also active in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. His other claim to fame is that his wife is prominent in Virginia Democrat politics (to the extent that Northern Virginia Democrats can be said to Virginian). She ran, unsuccessfully, for a state senate seat. She received some $700K from the Clinton organization via Clinton bag man and Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.
Being the spouse of a political candidate presents a host of challenges for a federal employee, particularly one in a “further restricted” agency. And McCabe did not meet them well.
The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government’s main whistleblower agency, is investigating whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s activities supporting his wife Jill’s Democratic campaign for Virginia state senate in 2015 violated the Hatch Act’s prohibition against FBI agents campaigning in partisan races.
The agency’s probe was prompted by a complaint in April from a former FBI agent who forwarded social media photos showing McCabe wearing a T-shirt supporting his wife’s campaign during a public event and then posting a photo on social media urging voters to join him in voting for his wife.
He actively supported his wife’s very partisan candidacy:
It is one thing, of course, to be a political operative and fundraiser and brand new to federal employment and violate the Hatch Act, it is quite another to be a career federal employee and second in command of an agency that is labeled “further restricted” and to blatantly violate the law. (This pamphlet gives the rules, note that the FBI employees are “further restricted” employees.) And that brings us to our subject, deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
McCabe has been in the limelight recently because he is now the acting FBI director until a new director is confirmed. He was also active in the Hillary Clinton email investigation. His other claim to fame is that his wife is prominent in Virginia Democrat politics (to the extent that Northern Virginia Democrats can be said to Virginian). She ran, unsuccessfully, for a state senate seat. She received some $700K from the Clinton organization via Clinton bag man and Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe.
Being the spouse of a political candidate presents a host of challenges for a federal employee, particularly one in a “further restricted” agency. And McCabe did not meet them well.
The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government’s main whistleblower agency, is investigating whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s activities supporting his wife Jill’s Democratic campaign for Virginia state senate in 2015 violated the Hatch Act’s prohibition against FBI agents campaigning in partisan races.
The agency’s probe was prompted by a complaint in April from a former FBI agent who forwarded social media photos showing McCabe wearing a T-shirt supporting his wife’s campaign during a public event and then posting a photo on social media urging voters to join him in voting for his wife.
He actively supported his wife’s very partisan candidacy:
