Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, claimed former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired earlier this month, lied to agency officials a total of four times, citing a watchdog report that has yet to be made public.
The FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility had recommended McCabe be fired, a move that was prompted by findings in a report prepared by the Justice Department, according to media reports. The inspector general, who has yet to release the report, found that he had misled them after they asked about authorizing the release of sensitive information to a reporter.
But Jordan, who has seen a copy of the inspector general report, said McCabe didn’t lie just once, but a total of four times.
“We do know about Andrew McCabe, he didn’t lie just once, he lied four times,” Jordan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Thursday night. “Four times. He lied to [former FBI Director] James Comey, he lied to the Office of Professional Responsibility, and he lied twice under oath to the inspector general.”
“It wasn’t once, it wasn’t twice, it wasn’t even three times, four times he lied about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal about the FBI,” Jordan added.
McCabe has repudiated he misled anyone and defended himself in an op-ed published by the Washington Post last week, arguing that although he had been accused of “lack of candor,” that was not the case and that he did not “knowingly” mislead investigators.
“At worst, I was not clear in my responses, and because of what was going on around me may well have been confused and distracted — and for that I take full responsibility,” McCabe wrote. “But that is not a lack of candor. And under no circumstances could it ever serve as the basis for the very public and extended humiliation of my family and me that the administration, and the president personally, have engaged in over the past year.”
McCabe was fired earlier this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions less than 48 hours before he was able to retire with a full pension.
