Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
IG releases report faulting fired FBI official McCabe
The Department of Justice’s inspector general concluded that fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
made a leak to the media “designed to advance his personal interests at
the expense of Department leadership,” according to a copy of the
report obtained by The Hill.
The report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz
makes the case that McCabe authorized disclosures to the media that
were designed to combat the perception that he had a conflict of
interest in overseeing dual FBI investigations related to former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
“We
concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the
[Clinton Foundation] 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,” Horowitz wrote.
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