According to some news outlets , McCabe had authorized an investigation .
`` Also on March 21 , immediately after McCabe 's firing , a parallel situation was noted and reported : that just as Jeff Sessions had fired McCabe for lacking `` '' candor '' '' , McCabe had , nearly a year previous to his own firing , authorized a criminal investigation into `` '' whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives '' '' . ''
Andrew McCabe