IG report on McCabe is out.

https://static01.nyt.com/files...ig-mccabe-report.pdf

Dirty bastage

This is my shocked face.

Hey we must look alike!!!

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:
This is my shocked face.

Some detail would be helpful

Always fun to note that when an FBI agent lies under oath, they call it 'lacked candor'. When a civilian, like Scooter Libby, gets something wrong under oath, it's a felony with fines and prison time.

Friday afternoon document dump....don't think this one is going away over the weekend though.

"Lack of candor". Why don't they just say he lied?

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Always fun to note that when an FBI agent lies under oath, they call it 'lacked candor'. When a civilian, like Scooter Libby, gets something wrong under oath, it's a felony with fines and prison time.

Yup. Horseshit, pure and simple.

Reading through this, you can see McCabe squirm. They have his text messages, knowledge of his phone calls (to whom and how long), boxed in by his ever changing words.

I enjoy knowing that he felt that uncomfortable heat as the questions kept popping up, the interviews kept happening, and the notes taken.

You got caught, you rat!!

Bailiff!

Whack his pee pee!



I. Introduction and Summary of Findings

This misconduct report addresses the accuracy of statements made by thenFederal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s
Inspection Division (INSD) and the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ)
Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning the disclosure of certain law
enforcement sensitive information to reporter Devlin Barrett that was published
online in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on October 30, 2016, in an article entitled
“FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” A print version of the article was
published in the WSJ on Monday, October 31, 2016, in an article entitled “FBI,
Justice Feud in Clinton Probe.”

This investigation was initially opened by INSD to determine whether the
information published by the WSJ in the October 30 article was an unauthorized
leak and, if so, who was the source of the leak. On August 31, 2017, the OIG
opened an investigation of McCabe following INSD’s referral of its matter to the OIG
after INSD became concerned that McCabe may have lacked candor when
questioned by INSD agents about his role in the disclosure to the WSJ. Shortly
before that INSD referral, as part of its ongoing Review of Allegations Regarding
Various Actions by the Department and the FBI in Advance of the 2016 Election, the
OIG identified FBI text messages by McCabe’s then-Special Counsel (“Special
Counsel”) that reflected that she and the then-Assistant Director for Public Affairs
(“AD/OPA”) had been in contact with Barrett on October 27 and 28, 2016, and the
OIG began to review the involvement of McCabe, Special Counsel, and AD/OPA in
the disclosure of information to the WSJ in connection with the October 30 article.

In addition to addressing whether McCabe lacked candor, the OIG’s
misconduct investigation addressed whether any FBI or Department of Justice
policies were violated in disclosing non-public FBI information to the WSJ.
The OIG’s misconduct investigation included reviewing all of the INSD
investigative materials as well as numerous additional documents, e-mails, text
messages, and OIG interview transcripts. The OIG interviewed numerous
witnesses, including McCabe, Special Counsel, former FBI Director James Comey,
and others.

As detailed below, we found that in late October 2016, McCabe authorized
Special Counsel and AD/OPA to discuss with Barrett issues related to the FBI’s
Clinton Foundation investigation (CF Investigation). In particular, McCabe
authorized Special Counsel and AD/OPA to disclose to Barrett the contents of a
telephone call that had occurred on August 12, 2016, between McCabe and the
then-Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General (“PADAG”). Among the purposes
of the disclosure was to rebut a narrative that had been developing following a
story in the WSJ on October 23, 2016, that questioned McCabe’s impartiality in
overseeing FBI investigations involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
and claimed that McCabe had ordered the termination of the CF Investigation due
to Department of Justice pressure. The disclosure to the WSJ effectively confirmed
the existence of the CF Investigation, which then-FBI Director Comey had
previously refused to do. The account of the August 12 McCabe-PADAG call, and
other information regarding the handling of the CF Investigation, was included in
the October 30 WSJ article.


We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the
WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made
statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the
disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5
(Lack of Candor – No Oath).

We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI
agents from INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not
authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct
violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).

We further found that on July 28, 2017, when questioned under oath by the
OIG in a recorded interview, McCabe lacked candor when he stated: (a) that he
was not aware of Special Counsel having been authorized to speak to reporters
around October 30 and (b) that, because he was not in Washington, D.C., on
October 27 and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where Special Counsel was or what
she was doing at that time. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of
Candor – Under Oath).

We additionally found that on November 29, 2017, when questioned under
oath by the OIG in a recorded interview during which he contradicted his prior
statements by acknowledging that he had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ,
McCabe lacked candor when he: (a) stated that he told Comey on October 31,
2016, that he had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ; (b) denied telling INSD
agents on May 9 that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ about the
PADAG call; and (c) asserted that INSD’s questioning of him on May 9 about the
October 30 WSJ article occurred at the end of an unrelated meeting when one of
the INSD agents pulled him aside and asked him one or two questions about the
article. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).

Lastly, we determined that as Deputy Director, McCabe was authorized to
disclose the existence of the CF Investigation publicly if such a disclosure fell within
the “public interest” exception in applicable FBI and DOJ policies generally
prohibiting such a disclosure of an ongoing investigation. However, we concluded
that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF Investigation through
an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior
Department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the
expense of Department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception.
We therefore concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation
in this manner violated the FBI’s and the Department’s media policy and constituted misconduct.

The OIG is issuing this report to the FBI for such action as it deems appropriate.

oh, this is sweet. They nailed McCabe.

Thank God for those text messages.


Here is a link to the WSJ article

https://www.wsj.com/articles/l...te-server-1477854957

FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe

McCabe's special counsel is of course, Lisa Page

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I enjoy knowing that he felt that uncomfortable heat as the questions kept popping up, the interviews kept happening, and the notes taken.

I enjoy knowing that he won't get his pension.

A few more details here. I'm sure the (Com)Post will bury this real fast.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.a7a441270be3

Inspector general report faults Andrew McCabe for unauthorized disclosure of information, misleading investigators

By Matt Zapotosky
April 13 at 2:52 PM

The Justice Department Inspector General alleges that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe inappropriately authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and then misled investigators and former FBI Director James B. Comey about it on several occasions, according to a report made public Friday.

Those in Washington have long been anticipating release of the document, which formed the basis of McCabe’s firing just 26 hours before he could retire from the FBI and begin collecting his full retirement benefits. McCabe vigorously disputes its conclusions, and his team distributed a point-by-point rebuttal of the inspector general’s allegations.

[Read the report: Justice Department Inspector General’s investigation of Andrew McCabe]

The release of the report comes at a moment when the Justice Department and FBI are under intense scrutiny from a president upset that agents this week raided the office of his personal lawyer. McCabe had already alleged that his firing was politically motivated, as the president had made clear he disliked McCabe long before the FBI’s former No. 2 official was fired.

His spokeswoman wrote on Twitter Tuesday that the timing of the document being handed over to Congress Friday was “fascinating,” then added, “But no report transmission to Mr. #McCabe and no public disclosure from the Office of the Inspector General. The transparency of this Friday news dump is a joke.”


A spokesman for the inspector general’s office declined to comment.

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Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:

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I enjoy knowing that he felt that uncomfortable heat as the questions kept popping up, the interviews kept happening, and the notes taken.

I enjoy knowing that he won't get his pension.

I don't think that is actually the case. It was portrayed that way, but it seems that he will be eligible for a pension but not as much, and not as soon as he would have gotten right away.

He isn’t out of trouble just yet, either.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

quote:

Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:

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I enjoy knowing that he felt that uncomfortable heat as the questions kept popping up, the interviews kept happening, and the notes taken.

I enjoy knowing that he won't get his pension.

I don't think that is actually the case. It was portrayed that way, but it seems that he will be eligible for a pension but not as much, and not as soon as he would have gotten right away.

He isn’t out of trouble just yet, either.

Agreed. He'll get something (maybe) retirement-wise, but I still enjoy knowing that the little lying J-Edgar will be squirming for some time to come.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

quote:

Originally posted by Bigboreshooter:

quote:

I enjoy knowing that he felt that uncomfortable heat as the questions kept popping up, the interviews kept happening, and the notes taken.

I enjoy knowing that he won't get his pension.

I don't think that is actually the case. It was portrayed that way, but it seems that he will be eligible for a pension but not as much, and not as soon as he would have gotten right away.

He isn’t out of trouble just yet, either.

That's the way I understood it. He's still getting a pension, but now he has to wait until normal retirement age like the rest of us instead of collecting it almost immediately. Or something.

There is so much in this report. They caught McCabe in multiple lies.

The DoJ IG did indeed interview Lisa Page.

McCabe said he had informed multiple FBI people that he had released info to WSJ, but none of them corroborated his statement.

McCabe even chewed out other FBI people for the WSJ leaks. (when it was McCabe himself who ordered the leaks)

This is far better than anything I thought would come out of the first part of the DoJ IG report.

Reminder:

Special Counsel = Lisa Page

DAD = Peter Strzok

AD/OPA = Mike Kortan (who retired Feb 2017)

DoJ IG found the first Strzok/Page texts about 20 July 2017


PADAG = Matt Axelrod (retired Mar 2017)

https://www.linklaters.com/en-...wyer/matthew-axelrod

Lying to a Federal Agent is a FELONY. Why has he not been charged?

Many people are languishing in federal prison today and/or are convicted felons for much less.

If I had to guess, that's where the U.S. Attorney in Utah comes in.

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Originally posted by WCCPHD:
Lying to a Federal Agent is a FELONY. Why has he not been charged?

Many people are languishing in federal prison today and/or are convicted felons for much less.

When is the hammer gonna drop on this Stzork and Page crew ? I’m sure their personal lives are a train wreck with spouses reading about their cheating in the papers but let’s hope they “lacked candor” as well.... as it were