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Is the timing and substance of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's firing similar to the firing of former FBI Director James Comey? Should Attorney General Jeff Sessions have allowed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to fire Andrew McCabe due to a previous conflict of interest? please cite the source where you get your information from.

Stewart, Martina. (2018, March 17). Source: Fired Deputy FBI Director Took Memos, Notes About Interactions With Trump. NPR. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/2018/03/17/594562355/source-fired-deputy-fbi-director-took-memos-notes-about-interactions-with-trump (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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McCabe had taken notes and memos about his interactions with President Trump, similar to those prepared by his former boss and colleague James Comey, a source familiar with the issue told NPR. The source also said the McCabe documents corroborate Comey's account which could play a key role in Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into obstruction of justice.

                                        The McCabe memos are in the possession of Mueller's team of investigators, according to CNN and Axios. And McCabe already sat for an interview with Mueller's team, Axios also reported. A personal lawyer for the president pointed to McCabe's ouster to argue that it was time for the Justice Department to end the special counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race and of any ties between Russians and the Trump campaign.

The attorney's remarks though not intended to speak for the president set off yet another round of concern among congressional Democrats about the status of the special counsel investigation and possible ways to protect it and its leader, former FBI Director Mueller from being terminated by the White House or the Justice Department.