The government is investigating whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe violated a ban on political activity by FBI agents in publicly supporting his wife's 2015 Democratic campaign for the Virginia state senate. Evidence - photos from social media - came from an ex-agent suing McCabe for gender bias. Her cause was supported by former national security aide Michael Flynn two years before McCabe's bureau investigated him.
From Circa News:
Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's office released to Circa under the Freedom of Information Act documents showing McCabe attended a meeting with his wife and the governor on a Saturday in March 2015 specifically to discuss having Jill McCabe run for state Senate in Virginia as a Democrat.
"This is a candidate recruitment meeting. McCabe is seriously considering running against State Senator Dick Black. You have been asked to close the deal," the briefing memo for McAuliffe read.
Included in the governor's briefing package was a copy of McCabe's FBI biography. The biography made clear that Andrew McCabe was a senior executive who at the time oversaw the FBI's Washington field office that among many tasks supervised investigations in northern Virginia.
At the time of the meeting, published reports indicate agents in the Washington field office were involved in both a probe of McAuliffe and of the governor's close friend, Hillary Clinton's [sic] and her private email account.
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