Former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe told the “Today” show on Tuesday morning that he plans to bring a civil lawsuit against the Department of Justice over his firing, which was directed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions just hours before he was set to retire from a 20-plus year career in the agency.
During the interview with “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie, McCabe criticized the inspector general report that fueled his removal, which suggested he lied about leaks to the media. He said it was part of his motivation for suing the department.
“I read that report very closely myself, I’ve been writing and reading investigative reports for over 20 years and that report was unlike anything I had ever read before,” he said. “So I have big problems with that report, I disagree with the conclusions they drew and that is something I’ll be raising in a civil lawsuit that I’ll be bringing against the Department of Justice.”
McCabe didn’t give further details, but said he was “about” to file the lawsuit and said he believes he was “fired because I opened a case against the President of the United States.”
“Why should anyone believe you when you were fired from the FBI for lying?” @savannahguthrie asks Andrew McCabe pic.twitter.com/OqlnZhShsw
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 19, 2019
Well, regardless of the outcome, the depositions should be fun to read!
And the next massive payout from our tax-dollars thanks to Trump and his revenge fantasies.
There’s no way that McCabe loses this, and the government will offer a significant settlement to make it go away.
Excellent. I hope he wins big. Or, at least gets the pension he earned.
Is McCabe actually a liar?
McCabe authorized an F.B.I. spokesman and lawyer to speak to The WJ Journal
to rebut suggestions that he had put the brakes on the investigation.
These types of interactions between journalists and government officials
— known as “background calls” — are common in all federal agencies and
administrations as officials try to correct inaccuracies or provide
details and nuance. The Journal printed a correction THAT WAS DAMAGING TO THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN and HELPED Trump. McCabe is suing the DOJ which reportedly won’t even provide the internal
guidelines that led to his dismissal. “In a District of Columbia
court filing, McCabe’s lawyer David L. Snyder accused the Justice
Department, its Office of the Inspector General and the FBI of refusing
to “identify the policies or procedures which applied to Mr. McCabe’s
dismissal and the proceedings which led to it,” referring to several
administrative documents.”
If McCabe was authorized to have an assistant make a correction to
reporting (which the OIG says he wasn’t by dint of a ‘media policy’ the
DOJ refuses to identify could this entire McCabe punishment rest upon
the difference of interpretation of that policy and not ‘a lack of
candor’.
…and if it does, is ‘lack of candor’ without ‘mens
rea of falsehood’, still be a crime as so many on the right
assert?
Right, anything that brings out more dirt on the Trump administration is a good thing.