They’re going after McCabe because McCabe claimed he didn’t back down on the Clinton e-mails when the Department of Justice told him he had to. Don’t forget, the OIG is the Department of Justice.
“McCabe told the OIG that on August 12, 2016, he received a telephone call from PADAG regarding the FBI’s handling of the CF Investigation (the “PADAG call”). McCabe said that PADAG expressed concerns about FBI agents taking overt steps in the CF Investigation during the presidential campaign. According to McCabe, he pushed back, asking “are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” McCabe told us that the conversation was “very dramatic” and he never had a similar confrontation like the PADAG call with a high-level Department official in his entire FBI career.”
The PADAG here is the Justice Department official coordinating with the FBI about the investigation. Note that McCabe is claiming he interpreted the PADAG as ordering him to stand down in his investigation. He claims he refused. The compromise reached was that they had to keep it out of the news. But McCabe, by arguing that the FBI hadn’t shut down the investigation at the DoJ’s orders, confirmed that the investigation was taking place. For doing that, he is being criminally prosecuted.
Drip, drip, drip ...
Just who is the US Attorney for DC?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_K._Liu
We may see a positive outcome from this referral.
She was part of the Trump Transition team. And she was once Assistant US Attorney for the National Security Division under GW Bush.
Is this a “BOOM”?
Let the cover up begin.....
Looks like the DOJ Watchdog just peed all over McCabe and the DNC… Here’s hoping some splashes on Comey, Lynch, Strzok and Page.