The former deputy and acting director of the FBI praised the Mueller report following its public release Thursday.
“The Mueller Report is a remarkable document — detailed, thorough, objective, and full of facts rather than rhetoric. It stands as a tribute to the hard work of the team of FBI agents and lawyers who, despite the endless stream of attacks on law enforcement from this Administration, worked for two years to find the facts and the truth amidst a swamp of lies and misinformation,” McCabe said in a statement Thursday.
“It shows what our law enforcement personnel — especially the dedicated men and women of the FBI — do every day on cases large and small throughout this country. We owe them our profound gratitude,” McCabe said.
Fmr FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe statement on the #MuellerReport: pic.twitter.com/lBylbizdl8
— Melissa Schwartz (@MSchwartz3) April 18, 2019
McCabe was fired in March 2018 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, just two days before McCabe planned to retire and collect his pension. The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General concluded McCabe lied to investigators about involvement in leaking information to the press in 2016.
Memos authored by McCabe leaked in 2018 detail how Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein volunteered to wear a wire to secretly record his meetings with President Trump in an attempt to gather evidence to remove Trump from office.
McCabe released a book in February titled The Threat in which he argued the FBI has protected America against Trump.
He is still under investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office.
