It seems the guy was fired for several different reasons and all of them were good. The guy that reviewed the reports was an Obama appointee and handled the report findings.
Seems he was leaking to the WSJ and who knows who else. He lied about the leaks and lied to his boss and the report says he was trying to make himself look good and advance his personal interests.
The leak was abut the investigation of the Clinton Foundation that his boss Comey did not want the public to know about.
Seems like the same names keep popping up as being liars and not completely forthcoming about the Clintons. We also have to take into account that McCabes wife was getting money form another Clinton hack, Terry McCauliffe.
With all of the MSM, now the FBI and all of the tentacles the Clintons had spread about, her losing the election was unfathomable, yet she did just that.
The article also hints at a rivalry that will now pop up about the relationship between he and Comey, pulling Comey into yet another coverup or lie.Andrew McCabe, the onetime acting FBI director, leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to his boss and federal investigators, prompting a stunning fall from grace that ended in his firing last month, according to a bombshell report released Friday by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, appointed by President Obama, had been reviewing FBI and DOJ actions leading up to the 2016 election.
The report, handed over to Congress on Friday and obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street Journal about the FBI's probe into the Clinton Foundation. The report says McCabe misled investigators about leaks and did so in a way that did not fall under a "public interest" exemption.
"[W]e 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," the report says.
McCabe was fired last month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions just days before he would have been eligible for a lifetime pension after it was determined that he misled investigators reviewing the bureau’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
Sessions said that McCabe “made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.”
The report on McCabe found that McCabe authorized a leak to a Journal reporter about the contents of a telephone call in August 2016. "Among the purposes of the disclosure was to rebut a narrative that had been developing following a story in The WSJ on Oct. 23, 2016, that questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing FBI investigations involving [Clinton], and claimed that McCabe had ordered the termination of the [FBI's Clinton Foundation investigation] due to Department of Justice pressure," the report says.
That leak confirmed the existence of the probe, which then-FBI Director James Comey had until then refused to do. The report says that McCabe "lacked candor" in a conversation with Comey when he said that he had not authorized the disclosure and didn't know who had done so.
And these are the clowns running our top law enforcement agency?In a letter submitted by McCabe’s counsel after reviewing a draft of the report, McCabe argues that “the OIG should credit Mr. McCabe’s account over Director Comey’s” and complains that the report “paints Director Comey as a white knight carefully guarding FBI information, while overlooking that Mr. McCabe’s account is more credible for at least three key reasons ...”
McCabe's counsel, Michael Bromwich, in a statement to Fox News, slammed the OIG report. "The core weakness of the OIG report is the lack of any understandable motive for his alleged wrongdoing. It is undisputed that Mr. McCabe was one of three senior FBI officials authorized to share information with the media, including on sensitive investigative matters," he said.
"He chose to exercise that authority in October 2016, during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the bureau, with the knowledge of Director Comey and other senior members of FBI management. His purpose was to protect the institutional reputation of the FBI against false claims, including that a sensitive investigation was being shut down for political reasons."
McCabe and Bromwich seemingly sought to diminish the credibility of Comey, blasting his "recollection" as "not at all clear."
"Mr. McCabe’s recollection of discussions he had with Director Comey about this issue is extremely clear; Director Comey’s recollection is, by his own acknowledgment, not at all clear. And yet two of the lack of candor allegations are based on Director Comey’s admittedly vague and uncertain recollection of those discussions. "
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...ew-mccabe.html
Next scandal on the list that deserves a honorable mention to think about...
Rosenstein wrote the report that says Comey should be fired....
then turns around and hires Mueller to investigate what the reasoning was behind that action? We have completely gotten off of the Russian Collusion part, that was the reasson for the special counsel to begin with. Rosenstein needs to hit the road now.
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