The OIG report makes it crystal clear that over more than a year, on a variety of occasions, McCabe lied, deceived, and withheld information when answering questions, first from his superior (Comey), and then investigators within the FBI and then the OIG of the Dept of Justice.
When one reads the OIG report, it is all laid out blow by blow, that McCabe changed his stories. It all came crashing down because either he was lying or everyone else they were interviewing in the FBI was lying. In particular, his account is pitted directly against some statements from Comey. So, yes, for the moment the OIG report supports Comey on one specific issue vs. McCabe, but it is delicious to see McCabe and Comey end up pitted against each other. Comey, Page, Baker, and others all depict McCabe as lying about key aspects of their interactions with him and his “leaking” to the Wall St. Journal reporter.
HA HA HA HA...... nice to see McCabe exposed, even if this is such a limited set of issues (mainly about the WSJ article and the revelations of a sensitive conversation McCabe had in Aug. 2016 with a top official in the Dept of Justice.
There should be much more to come from the OIG (this report is only on one fairly narrow topic), so long as they really have followed through on the wider investigations.
“Lack of candor” within FBI personnel policies embraces both explicit lying and also various forms of deception, withholding of relevant information, allowing misunderstandings to persist, etc.
McCabe did all of the above. I don’t know what his legal status may be, but the OIG report definitely paints him as a thoroughly deceptive character who tried to throw Comey, his colleagues and subordinates, and even some of the investigators who interviewed him under the bus.