Senate Intelligence Committee questions Acting FBI Director McCabe

Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe faced the Senate Intelligence Committee on May 11.

Senate Intelligence Committee members wanted to get a feel for the new bureau head.

Committee members were upset by Director James Comey’s sudden dismissal by President Trump.

Ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner started proceedings by saying “The timing of Director Comey’s dismissal, to me and many members of this committee on both sides of the aisle, is especially troubling.”
Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) wanted to clear up some of Trump’s statements about the firing. He asked if McCabe had ever heard Director Comey tell the president “he was not the subject of the investigation.”

Acting Director McCabe responded, “I can’t comment on any conversations the director may have had with the president.”

Ranking Democrat Sen. Mark Warner wanted to know if the committee could count on McCabe. He asked directly if the acting director would tell the committee of “any effort to interfere with the FBI’s ongoing investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign.”

McCabe pledged to do so.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), wanted to know if the dismissal had in any way impeded the ongoing investigation.

Acting Director McCabe replied, “You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.”

That answer seemed satisfactory.