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Page 12A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Saturday, March 17, 2018 Sessions fires former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ership during the probe, but also on media leaks. McCabe came under WASHINGTON — particular scrutiny over an Attorney General Jeff October 2016 news report that Sessions announced revealed differing approaches Friday night that he was within the FBI and Justice Department firing former over how FBI Deputy aggressively the Director Andrew Clinton Foun- McCabe, a dation should longtime and be investigated. frequent target of The watchdog President Donald office had Trump’s anger, concluded that just two days McCabe had before his sched- authorized FBI uled retirement officials to speak date. Andrew McCabe to a Wall Street The move Journal reporter was made on the recommendation of for that story and that he had FBI disciplinary officials not been forthcoming with and comes ahead of an investigators about it, which inspector general report McCabe strenuously denied. In his statement, McCabe expected to conclude that McCabe had authorized the said he had the authority to release of information to share information with jour- the news media and had not nalists through his public been forthcoming with the affairs office, a practice he watchdog office as it exam- said was common and done ined the bureau’s handling with the blessing of senior of the Hillary Clinton email leadership. He said he had honestly answered questions investigation. “The FBI expects every about whom he had spoken employee to adhere to the to and when, and that when highest standards of honesty, he thought his answers were integrity, and account- misunderstood, contacted ability,” Sessions said in a investigators again to correct them. statement. Even so, officials at the In an extraordinary rebuttal released imme- FBI’s Office of Professional diately after Sessions’ Responsibility had recom- announcement, McCabe mended the firing, leaving said his credibility had been Justice Department leaders attacked as “part of a larger in a difficult situation. effort not just to slander me Sessions, whose job status personally, but to taint the has for months appeared FBI, law enforcement, and shaky under blistering intelligence professionals criticism from Trump, risked inflaming the White House if more generally.” “It is part of this admin- McCabe were to not be fired. istration’s ongoing war on But a decision to dismiss the FBI and the efforts of the McCabe two days before special counsel investigation, his firing carried the risk of which continue to this day,” angering his rank-and-file he added, referring to Robert supporters at the FBI. Though Sessions said Mueller’s ongoing probe into potential coordination McCabe had shown a lack of between Russia and the candor, the law enforcement Trump campaign. “Their official suggested a separate persistence in this campaign reason for his dismissal, only highlights the importance saying, “I am being singled of the special counsel’s work.” out and treated this way Though McCabe had because of the role I played, spent more than 20 years the actions I took, and the as a career FBI official, events I witnessed in the and had played key roles in aftermath of the firing of some of the bureau’s most James Comey.” He said the inspector recent significant investi- gations, Trump repeatedly general’s investigation was condemned him over the accelerated after he told last year as emblematic of an congressional investigators FBI leadership he contends that he could corroborate the is biased against his admin- account of Comey, who was istration. The White House fired as FBI director last May. McCabe, a lawyer by had said the firing decision was up to the Justice training, enjoyed a rapid Department but seemed to career ascent in the bureau signal this week that it would after joining in 1996. He was the FBI’s top counter- welcome the move. The termination is symbolic terrorism official during the to an extent, since McCabe Boston Marathon bombing, had been on leave from the and later led the FBI’s FBI since last January, when national security branch and he abruptly left the deputy its Washington field office, director position. But it comes one of the bureau’s largest, just ahead of his planned before being named to the retirement, on Sunday, and deputy director position. But he became entangled jeopardizes his ability to collect his full pension benefits upon in presidential politics in 2016 when it was revealed his departure. The firing arises from that his wife, during an a wide-ranging inspector unsuccessful bid for the general review, initiated Virginia state Senate, had last year, into how the FBI received campaign contribu- handled the Clinton email tions from the political action investigation. That review committee of then-Virginia focused not only on specific Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a decisions made by FBI lead- close Clinton ally. Stephen Scarbro, who came from San Antonio, Texas, sits on a park bench along the Pendle- ton River Parkway on Thursday in Pendleton. Scarbro, who is currently homeless, says he is spends his time main- taining a low profile while wait- ing to start a new job. By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press Staff photo by E.J. Harris HOMELESS: Home 4 Hope plans drop-in center Continued from 1A “It’s more just making sure we’re doing it appro- priately, going to the right places and talking to the right people,” Ruud said. The higher number shows the area has greater needs than previously thought, Stuvland said, and that opens the door to more grant funding for CAPECO and other institutions to combat homelessness, including schools. Ruud, Stuvland and McDaniel also are part of Home 4 Hope, a local coali- tion that helps the homeless. The group held its annual forum March 8 in Pendleton, where about 30 members identified key obstacles for the homeless and brain- stormed solutions. Previous forums helped hatch the idea of warming stations in Hermiston and Pendleton, and this time McDaniel said she hoped the forum would address two big hurdles for the homeless: a place to get mail and phone service. McDaniel said both are essential for people to connect to everything from employers to the Social Security Administration, which requires an address to receive benefits. After almost two hours of discussion, the group agreed a drop-in day center could provide those benefits and more, including necessities and shower facilities. On the street Christopher Viking is a Home 4 Hope member and has lived on the streets after service in the Vietnam War. “I went on the wrong track for a while then,” he said. “I call it a mental lapse.” That lapse included riding railroad cars on the West Coast and a stint in federal prison, he said, before landing in Umatilla County since the late 1990s. A man of Christian faith, Viking said he feels a calling to volunteer to help homeless people obtain services from operations such as CAPECO. The days of dining with hobos, he said, were far different from today’s home- lessness. Now, he said, fami- lies huddle together in tents or back rooms, and Pendleton High School students sleep on the Umatilla River levee, bathe in park restrooms and trudge to classes. Viking said he supports the idea of a drop-in day center and what it could accomplish, but the most essential part starts with people. The center would need caring individuals who know how to relate to the homeless and can connect them to services. The center also would not replace the overnight warming stations in Pendleton and Hermiston. Stuvland described the stations as vital to the communities and said a drop-in center would function during the day. The Salvation Army just outside downtown Pendleton serves to some degree as a drop-in center, offering mail collection and free hot lunches to 50-100 people Monday through Saturday. Ricky Scruggs, the lieutenant in charge the local operation, estimated 25 percent of those are people with no home at all. Scruggs said dealing with homelessness takes more than shelters and centers. Those are bandages, he said, while the deeper challenge is to engage people who are homeless and teach them to have a new relationship with finance. homeless, everything is about survival — about meeting the needs of the next hour or day. But Scarbro said he is looking further ahead. Tuesday he starts a new job at Keystone RV in Pendleton, he said, and The Salvation Army is helping him get clothes and arranging a shower at the Arrowhead Travel Plaza about six miles east of Pendleton. To get there, Scarbro can take free public transportation. Home 4 Hope also is pushing for a better tomorrow. The group meets every other Thursday 2-4 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 201 S.W. Dorion Ave., Pendleton. Stuvland said the conversations on the day center continues, and eventually will lead to committees to move the proposal forward. 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