WASHINGTON – Four candidates to be FBI director are in line for the first interviews with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy, Rod Rosenstein, at Justice Department headquarters.
The Trump administration is looking to fill the job after President Donald Trump fired Director James Comey this week.
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Among those expected to be coming in Saturday are acting FBI director Andrew McCabe and Alice Fisher, a top Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.
That’s according to two people familiar with the search process who weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the deliberations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Saturday’s list also includes Michael J. Garcia, an associate judge on New York’s highest court, and GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate leader and a former state attorney general.
Trump told reporters Saturday that he could name a new FBI director by late next week, before he departs on his first foreign trip.
The Associated Press, the New York Times, and The Washington Post all reported Wednesday that Comey had requested additional resources for the Russia investigation in the days leading up his dismissal.
A separate report from the Associated Press found the Senate intelligence committee had subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
And citing a source “close to Comey,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper reported the FBI director was dismissed because he lacked personal loyalty to Trump and because the Russia probe was “accelerating.”
With files from Andrew Russell, Global News