Byron York's Daily Memo:DOJ memory holes Andrew McCabe wrongdoing. By Byron York
October 15, 2021
DOJ MEMORY HOLES ANDREW MCCABE WRONGDOING. Andrew McCabe was the number-two man at the FBI during the years disgraced former Director James Comey was in charge. He was a critical part of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation targeting the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. He took part in the FBI's misrepresentations to a secret foreign surveillance court when it wrongly wiretapped former campaign aide Carter Page. And he was found, by the Justice Department's own inspector general, to have lied repeatedly to investigators looking into his leaks to the media during the Hillary Clinton email investigation. For that, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16, 2018.
McCabe sued the Justice Department. As a result of his firing, just before his scheduled retirement, he received a smaller pension than he otherwise would have.Plus, he didn't get retirement things such as FBI Senior Executive Service cufflinks and a plaque with his FBI badge on it. McCabe wanted it all back โ plus, he wanted the department to expunge any record of his ever having been fired. Like it never happened.
Now, the Biden Justice Department has agreed to it all. The department settled McCabe's suit and agreed to pay him $200,000 in back pension benefits.They're giving him the cufflinks and the plaqueโ and they are expunging his record of any mention of that firing unpleasantness. Just for good measure, the FBI โ that would mean you, the taxpayer โ is also paying McCabe's lawyers $539,000 in fees.
Some will be outraged at the money settlement, but perhaps the most outrageous part is the Justice Department's decision to remove McCabe's firing from his FBI record โ to memory hole the entire thing as far as McCabeโs record is concerned. So in the interest of public disclosure, you can read Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report here. Horowitz found that McCabe "lacked candor" โ the FBI's phrase for lying โ on several occasions when he was questioned about his contacts with reporters from the Wall Street Journal and other outlets. Here is a sample:
We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of Candor โ No Oath).
We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI agents from [the Inspection Division], McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor โ Under Oath).
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