Disgraced former FBI Deputy Director and current CNN contributor, Andrew McCabe now admits that he lied about leaking information to the media.
McCabe has now apologized for lying to agents, who spent weeks investigating the source of a leak to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that actually came from him.
Shortly before the 2016 election, The WSJ reported that an FBI investigation was underway involving then-candidate Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
In May of 2017 McCabe denied that it was he who was the source of the leak.
But documents released by the FBI now show that he later fessed up, angering bureau investigators who had been spinning their wheels trying to identify the source of the leak. The documents showed McCabe admitted to misleading investigators during his August 2017 interview.
During that interview, McCabe was questioned about two media leaks on the same day that James Comey was fired. McCabe was reportedly asked if he knew how FBI information ended up in the 2016 WSJ article. He initially denied knowing about the leak, but he walked back his claim in a later interview.
Subsequently, the DOJ watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility, who obtained and released the documents under a Freedom of Information Act request, found that McCabe had indeed directed FBI lawyer Lisa Page to share the information he had publicly denied.
“I’ve said from the very beginning I absolutely reject that report, because I never intentionally mislead anyone about anything,” said McCabe. “I will not stand up and claim that I’ve done something I didn’t do.”
But, according to the released FBI documents, McCabe was blamed for sidetracking the bureau’s work by one of the agents conducting the interview, to whom McCabe the apologized. The transcript of the interview in the released documents reads:
“I remember saying to him, at, I said, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the agent said.
“I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this, trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that.’ And he kind of just looked down, kind of nodded, and said ‘Yeah I’m sorry.”
The transcript is among a release of the documents from the DOJ, that catalog the reasons for McCabe’s firing that were requested by the watchdog group.
Lying to the feds is a crime, but McCabe has not been charged, and he has since sued the FBI and DOJ over his firing.
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Amen!
Why aren’t they having to refund the money that was spent investigating them. No telling how many millions/billions of dollars have been spent investigating this mess that the Dems created.
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Exactly what draining of the swamp has taken place with trump as Pres?
Are you too stupid to understand this is exactly what you accuse democrats of doing?
Trumpers are seriously deranged.
So both Commie Comey and McCabe have admitted they lied. At least they have the decency to finally admit it. Someday Pelosi,, Schiff, Nadler,, the Clintons and many others will have to admit they are LIARS.
I wonder if Comey and McCabe will get to share a cell for their crimes?
President Trump we appreciate you don’t backdown save this nation before it becomes like other corrupt countries . All the lazy people hate The President because he is denying them Welfare
What a lying POS. they should all go to prison and President Trump should fumigate that agency!
Traitors, not traders.
Let’s, he now admits that he lied about his activities? Was he under oath when questioned, etc. Seems to me that another individual went to prison under the Democrats investigation for a similar act (witchcraft investigation. So why is he still free?
These are the people we trust with our security. No wonder America is so susceptible to other countries getting information from us to use to attack us. These top security people should be subjected to truth serum every month to see if they’re traitors. They’re the ones who are putting a divide on America and allowing our president and country to be laughingstocks. Have respect for who’s in office. You’re the ones putting this nations security at risk.
I am just supposed to believe this ? trump makes McCabe look like a choirboy and HRC look like Mary Poppins.