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Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Friday night, following an internal review that concluded McCabe violated Justice Department policies and was not forthcoming with investigators probing FBI actions before the 2016 presidential election.

Sessions said Justice Department officials determined that "McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor \u2212 including under oath \u2212 on multiple occasions."

"The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability," the attorney general said in a statement.

The dismissal days before McCabe was set to retire will significantly reduce the 21-year FBI veteran's pension and delay it for years.

"Look, it's personally devastating. It's so tough on my family," he told POLITICO during a wide-ranging interview conducted earlier this month, before his firing.

"But at some point, this has to be seen in the larger context," said McCabe, 49, who says he has voted for every Republican presidential nominee until he sat out the 2016 contest entirely. "And I firmly believe that this is an ongoing effort to undermine my credibility because of the work that I did on the Russia case, because of the investigations that I oversaw and impacted that target this administration."

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