DOJ agrees to release FBI texts from Andrew McCabe

Published July 29, 2020 10:06pm ET



The Justice Department has agreed to release at least some of fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s text messages following a yearslong Freedom of Information Act lawsuit pursued by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group.

The Justice Department told a D.C. federal court last week that it had found dozens of potentially relevant texts from the FBI official who played a key role in the Trump-Russia investigation and the Clinton emails investigation. McCabe was fired after the DOJ inspector general concluded that he misled investigators about his role in leaks to the media, although he denies any wrongdoing. DOJ lawyers told the court and Judicial Watch that they would need until the end of August to review the records before agreeing to a production schedule.

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