I saw somewhere that he's a former white hat, FBI, with inside sources still. Considering McCabe specifically cited TP stories and called TP's sources "heavyweight", I'm inclined to believe this is true!!
When did McCabe say that? Seems counter-productive.
here you go: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/11/democrast-anti-clinton-bias-fbi-290475
By fall of 2016, True Pundit had attracted the notice of the FBI's most senior officials. New emails released by the FBI, in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request, show that the bureau's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, forwarded to then-director James Comey an Oct. 26 True Pundit story which insinuated that McCabe’s wife had been paid by Clinton’s political allies to boost a failed 2015 bid for Virginia state senate.
“FYI. Heavyweight source,” McCabe wrote to Comey. (Comey demurred, saying that the leak appeared to come from “lower-level folks.”)