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1) McCabe Says He Was ‘Unfairly branded a liar,’ But IG Found He Lacked Candor Under Oath

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2) Following a DOJ decision not to "pursue criminal charges against...McCabe, arising from the referral by the Office of Inspector General,” McCabe appeared on CNN and stated that he was being “unfairly branded a liar".

But the IG Report on McCabe tells a very different story.

3) McCabe was fired on March 16, 2018, after “both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.

4) According to IG Horowitz’s Feb. 2018 Report on McCabe, the former deputy FBI director lied three times under oath—and also lied to then-FBI Director James Comey—regarding his authorization of leaks to The Wall Street Journal in late October 2016.
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4437…

5) On Oct.23, 2016, Devlin Barrett (now w/WAPO) published an article in the Wall Street Journal that raised questions regarding McCabe’s level of impartiality in the Clinton email investigation.

Barrett then notified the FBI that he was doing a follow-up article.

6) Barrett made these inquiries after he had sources telling him that McCabe had allegedly instructed agents to effectively “stand down” on the ongoing Clinton Foundation Investigation.

Barrett asked if these reports were accurate and if there was “Anything else I should know”.

7) By Oct. 25, 2016, “McCabe had been notified that Barrett was working on a follow-up story to the October 23 article that would cover McCabe’s oversight of the CF Investigation and potential connections with McAuliffe campaign contributions to McCabe’s wife.”

8) It was at this point that McCabe authorized his special counsel, FBI lawyer, Lisa Page, to speak with Barrett about his “follow-up” story.

The IG Report notes that one of the purposes of Page’s “disclosure was to rebut a narrative...that questioned McCabe’s impartiality."

9) The disclosure, authorized by McCabe and made by Page, “effectively confirmed the existence of the CF [Clinton Foundation] Investigation, which then- FBI Director Comey had previously refused to do.”

10) Following Barrett’s 2nd article, the IG Report notes that McCabe contacted two FBI executives and admonished them for the “leaks contained in the October 30 WSJ article about the CF Investigation.”

Notably, these were leaks that McCabe had authorized Page to make to Barrett.

11) The following day Comey had a conversation with McCabe regarding the article.

Comey said that “he discussed the issue with McCabe after the article was published, and at that time McCabe ‘definitely did not tell me that he authorized’ the disclosure of the PADAG call.”

12) On May 9, 2017, McCabe was interviewed under oath by agents from the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) regarding the leaks that were disclosed in Barrett’s Oct. 30, 2016, article.

This was the same day that Rosenstein recommended that Comey be fired.

13) According to the IG Report, McCabe lied to INSD agents regarding his participation in these leaks.

The IG Report also noted that the interviewing agents “viewed McCabe as “the victim” of the leak and McCabe had told the INSD agents that he did not know how this happened.”

14) On July 27, 2017, IG Horowitz notified SC Mueller and DAG Rosenstein of a large number of newly discovered texts between Page and Strzok.

On July 28, 2017, McCabe was interviewed under oath by Horowitz.

Some of the texts suggested that Page had provided info to Barrett.

15) When faced with additional texts that provided further indication that Page was talking to Barrett, McCabe told Horowitz that “I was not even in town during those days. So I can't tell you where she was or what she was doing.”

16) Four days later, on Aug. 1, 2017, McCabe apparently thought differently and placed a call to an assistant inspector general (AIG)—although McCabe did not contact Horowitz.

The AIG summarized McCabe’s call in a same day email:

17) On Aug 7, 2017, FBI INSD investigators, who were not aware of the texts between Page & Strzok, interviewed Page regarding her contacts with Barrett.

Page “told INSD agents under oath that she was a source for the disclosure" & "the disclosure was fully authorized by McCabe"

18) Page provided this same account to the IG’s office in “two subsequent interviews on September 7 and October 26, 2017,” and also signed a Signed Sworn Statement (SSA) to this effect on Aug. 15, 2017.

19) On Aug 18, 2017, McCabe was again interviewed by FBI INSD agents after they were told by Page that “it was McCabe who had authorized the conversation with Barrett in advance of the October 30 WSJ article.”

20) Following this Aug 18, 2017 interview, INSD officials “became concerned that there was a significant question of whether Deputy Director McCabe had testified truthfully to INSD on May 9. INSD-Section Chief told us that she recommended turning the matter over to the OIG.”

21) The Assistant Director for the INSD agreed with this assessment and “referred the matter to the OIG."

Horowitz noted that his office of the Inspector General “formally accepted the referral on August 31, 2017.”

22) On Nov. 29, 2017, Horowitz again interviewed McCabe, this time in regards to his Aug. 1, 2017 call that was made to the AIG.

This time, McCabe told Horowitz that “I remember authorizing [Special Counsel] and [AD/OPA] to talk to the Wall Street Journal.”

23) Notably, McCabe told Horowitz that “he did not discuss the Devlin texts” with Page following his initial July 28, 2017 interview with the IG.

However, Page told Horowitz that “following McCabe’s July 28 OIG interview, she and McCabe discussed her text messages.”

24) The IG found that “McCabe lacked candor on four separate occasions in connection with the disclosure to the WSJ.

Three of those occasions involved his testimony under oath.”

Horowitz provided specific dates for each of these events and covered the details in his report.

25) For those wondering what "Lack of Candor" means in this matter, the IG provided the the legal definitions of “Lack of Candor” as it relates to the FBI:

26) Horowitz found three separate instances where McCabe “lacked candor-under oath” along with an additional instance where McCabe lacked candor with his superior, FBI Director Comey.

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