Posted on 10/15/2018 6:29:16 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The FBI opened an investigation into an unauthorized media leak of a comment made by former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe about former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Trump, according to bureau documents released Monday.
The documents show that the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs received a complaint about an alleged leak that involved “a statement overheard in early February 2017.”
“Specifically, the alleged comments were made by DD AG McCabe and pertained to General Michael T. Flynn and the POTUS,” one document states.
The investigation into the unauthorized media disclosure appears to have started on March 20, 2017.
The document does not make it clear whether McCabe was a witness or made the statement himself, as the complaint alleged.
A spokesperson for McCabe declined to comment.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe earlier this year, saying the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of Inspector General (OIG) had found McCabe made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and "lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions."
McCabe was dismissed just days before the then-FBI official was set to retire and would have been eligible for his pension.
The former FBI official has denied any wrongdoing, and is suing the Justice Department for wrongful termination.
The Justice Department's inspector general referred its findings on McCabe to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., for potential criminal charges, according to an April report.
The remainder of the more than 300 pages of documents released Monday by the FBI do not share new details on the investigation into McCabe, but include testimony given before Congress by former FBI Director James Comey in 2016 and media guidelines for the FBI's Office of Public Affairs.
The New York Times separately reported last month that McCabe wrote in a contemporaneous memo while at the bureau last spring that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested wearing a wire during his conversations with Trump and potentially invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office.
Rosenstein has fiercely denied the bombshell report.
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Wasn’t McCabe going to roll over and go scorched erf?
Whatever happened to that?
Oh yeah investigate itself. That’ll work.
These stories and what else we know about McCabe ( lying to his own FBI and being fired) is one reason I don’t believe his story on Rosenstein and the wiretapping. This guy McCabe is a cancer and I’m willing to bet he made his bones moving up the ranks with these tactics.
The FBI opened an investigation....
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The FBI investigating itself. I think we already know how that’s going to come out.
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