According to the Inspector General, McCabe leaked dirt on the Justice Department, then misled FBI Director James Comey about the source of the leak, then misled leak investigators over and over again. It’s hard to read the report and feel that McCabe’s firing wasn’t earned.
He would have gotten away with it if the FBI and Justice Department had not become the focus of historic partisan ire.
The financial ties between McCabe’s wife’s campaign and Hillary Clinton’s circle became an issue. McCabe had not recused himself from the Clinton investigations until the story ran, and he seems to have fought recusal even after that.
While that struggle was underway, the Wall Street Journal called to say it was going to run another story, saying that McCabe had ordered a standstill in one of the Clinton investigations.
He authorized an FBI public affairs officer to leak a dramatic account of McCabe fighting off a Justice Department effort to stall or kill the FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation. The counsel on whom McCabe relied for this shivving of the Justice Department was Lisa Page, the FBI attorney whose text messages to Peter Strzok would soon become notorious and eventually cost McCabe his pension.
While that struggle was underway, the Wall Street Journal called to say it was going to run another story, saying that McCabe had ordered a standstill in one of the Clinton investigations.
He authorized an FBI public affairs officer to leak a dramatic account of McCabe fighting off a Justice Department effort to stall or kill the FBI’s Clinton Foundation investigation. The counsel on whom McCabe relied for this shivving of the Justice Department was Lisa Page, the FBI attorney whose text messages to Peter Strzok would soon become notorious and eventually cost McCabe his pension.
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