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From
The Hill:
McCabe is accused of misleading
investigators about allegedly giving information to a former Wall Street
Journal reporter about the investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton family’s charitable foundation. McCabe asserts in his post-firing statement
that he not only had authority to “share” that information to the media
but did so with the knowledge of “the director.” The FBI director at
the time was Comey.
“I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a
legal counselor,” McCabe stated. “As deputy director, I was one of only
a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it
took place over several days, and others, including the director, were
aware of the interaction with the reporter.”
If
the “interaction” means leaking the information, then McCabe’s
statement would seem to directly contradict statements Comey made in a
May 2017 congressional hearing. Asked if he had “ever been an anonymous
source in news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation
or the Clinton investigation” or whether he had “ever authorized
someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about
the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation,” Comey replied
“never” and “no.” (Read more.)
Meanwhile, from
The Federalist:
Newly discovered text messages obtained by The Federalist
reveal two key federal law enforcement officials conspired to meet with
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge who presided
over the federal case against Michael Flynn. The judge, Rudolph
Contreras, was recused from handling the case just days after accepting
the guilty plea of President Donald Trump’s former national security
adviser who was charged with making false statements to federal
investigators.
The text messages about Contreras between controversial Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) lawyer Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the
senior FBI counterintelligence official who was kicked off Robert
Mueller’s special counsel team, were deliberately hidden from Congress,
multiple congressional investigators told The Federalist. In
the messages, Page and Strzok, who are rumored to have been engaged in
an illicit romantic affair, discussed Strzok’s personal friendship with
Contreras and how to leverage that relationship in ongoing
counterintelligence matters. (Read more.)
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