(11 May 2017) The acting FBI Director, Andrew McCabe, is suggesting that targets of investigations are never informed that they are being investigated.
President Donald Trump says ousted FBI Director James Comey told him three times that he was not under investigation, but the acting FBI director is telling Congress that's not standard practice.
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins serves on the Senate intelligence committee.
Collins asked acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe if the FBI typically tells people that they are not a target of investigation.
McCabe said he couldn't comment on what Comey might or might not have told the president, but that it's not standard practice to inform someone that they are not a target.
Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe disagrees with the White House suggestion that it's a low priority of the FBI to investigate Russian interference in the election and potential Trump campaign collusion.
McCabe says it's a "highly significant investigation," contradicting statements made by the White House downplaying the significance. On Wednesday, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was "probably one of the smallest things" that the FBI has "got going on their plate."
McCabe tells a Senate panel that he would not describe the investigation that way.
Still, McCabe is declining to say exactly how many FBI personnel are involved in the investigation. McCabe says he can't discuss that in a public setting.
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