Former FBI director James Comey was recently questioned about his former deputy Andrew McCabe by investigators from the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, The Washington Post reported.
According to a person familiar with the matter who spoke with the Post, the interview signals that the U.S. Attorney’s Office may believe that McCabe broke the law by misleading federal agents and could be charged with a crime.
The D.C. attorney’s office was directed to probe McCabe after the Justice Department inspector general determined in April that McCabe deceived investigators and Comey about the approval of a media disclosure. DOJ IG Michael Horowitz determined he misled Comey at least four times, three of which were under oath.
McCabe has denied the allegations that he intentionally misguided Comey or investigators and has claimed that Comey knew about the media disclosures. Comey begs to differ and has said he “could well be a witness” against McCabe if charges were brought forward by investigators.
McCabe, whom Trump has used as a punching bag to justify his belief in an anti-Trump bias within the FBI, was fired this spring, just 26 hours before he was set to retire from the agency. Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired him based on the IG report and advice from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
Read the Post’s full story here.
The FBI has a long and sordid history of breaking the law to infiltrate and disrupt peaceful protest groups and stifle dissent against America’s war machine and racist oppression.
This is a tiny potato.
So he was fired 26 hours before he was set to retire, now he’s being investigated for possibly deceiving investigators about the approval of a media disclosure?
Nice to see Trump’s desire of punishing opponents is being kept in check.
This might just be what a witch hunt looks like.
Yet another reminder that Comey was not one of the good guys. He put his thumb on the scales for Trump hoping to pick up some brownie points with Republicans in Congress. He thought that he could not be dismissed before his term was up.
Trump would have been perfectly entitled to sack Comey when he entered office just like G. W. Bush sacked Freeh when he came into office. But not after asking him to drop the Flynn probe knowing that the trail would lead to his own criminality.
McCabe has little to fear as there is really no possibility of a jury convicting him and he will definitely get his pension restored by the next administration.