Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who left the organization in disgrace a few weeks ago, is in serious trouble after a bombshell new Inspector General report shows he misled investigators and authorized leaks to the media.
McCabe helped lead the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails despite the fact his wife received hundreds of thousands of dollars from close Clinton allies in her 2015 run for Virginia State Senate.
McCabe was also involved in the controversial FISA surveillance request of the Trump campaign using the “salacious and unverified” (James Comey’s words) Christopher Steele dossier in the fall of 2016.
According to Breitbart:
“Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ-IG) Michael Horowitz’s long-awaited report will accuse outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of improper leaking to the press and deliberately misleading DOJ-IG investigators, according to Thursday reporting in the New York Times and Washington Post.
The New York Times broke McCabe’s alleged leaking to the media first. According to their “four people familiar with the inquiry,” Horowitz’s report will accuse McCabe of authorizing the leaks that led to an October 2016 piece in the Wall Street Journal that revealed on ongoing dispute about how to handle the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails that had just been reopened by the discoveries on disgraced Congressman Anthony Wiener’s laptop.
Among other things, the WSJ article reveals that senior Obama Justice Department officials were pressuring McCabe to discontinue their investigation.
“The inspector general has concluded that Mr. McCabe authorized F.B.I. officials to provide information for that article,” the Times sources claim.
The Times characterizes McCabe’s leak, which apparently took the form of authorizing a phone call to the press in violation of DOJ policy, as one harmful to Clinton rather than Donald Trump. However, as the Times notes, the WSJ piece also reported that some FBI agents in the field wanted to pursue a “more aggressive approach” than McCabe was willing to allow.”
