The McCabe Report Drops the HammerWeekly Standard, Apr 14, 2018, Andrew Egger
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The report, which formed the basis for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to fire McCabe, paints a damning picture: Unhappy about negative news reports about his alleged conflict of interest in overseeing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails—an investigation that at the time had not been confirmed by the FBI—McCabe authorized two officials to release information to rebut that narrative, tacitly confirming to the press that the investigation was underway. McCabe then proceeded to lie to investigators to cover his tracks: on four different occasions, once under oath, he said that he had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who had.
McCabe, the report states, “was authorized to disclose the existence of the CF [Clinton Foundation] Investigation publicly†if he judged such a disclosure to be in the public interest.
“However,†the report continues, “we concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF Investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior Department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception.â€
Whether or not the disclosure was permissible, the report concludes, repeatedly misleading investigators was certainly not.
More:
https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-egger/the-ig-report-on-andrew-mccabe-makes-a-damning-case
