Appreciate the post but could you summarize it without the acronyns.
The way I read it is that McCabe refused to back away from investigating the Clinton Foundation. I don’t understand why that would be a bad thing except for disobeying orders.
Yes, I know it's fashionable to hate on McCabe for everything because he apparantly was involved in a cabal to plot a "resistance" thing from with the FBI but his acts here seem to be decent to me. Pressure to end the investigation, he refused (though it was all done with kid gloves anyway). Seeems in this instance he was doing the right thing, frankly.
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 [Office of the Inspector General of the Department if Justice] that on August 12, 2016, he received a telephone call from [Lead Department of Justice investigating attorney on the matter] regarding the FBI’s handling of the [Clinton Foundation] Investigation (the “PADAG call”). McCabe said that [Lead Department of Justice investigating attorney on the matter] 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 PADAC 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.