Rep. John Ratcliffe said the Justice Department must indict Andrew McCabe, following the DOJ inspector general’s 2018 report that found the fired FBI deputy director helped leak unauthorized information to the media and misled investigators about it.
The Texas Republican told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo that indicting McCabe was necessary to prove that the DOJ was applying its standards fairly both to Republicans and Democrats.
“The Department of Justice has, through the special counsel, recently made a cottage industry out of charging people like General Flynn and George Papadopoulos for lying to investigators,” the House Judiciary member said on Sunday Morning Futures. “I think that the Department of Justice is going to have to indict Andrew McCabe simply because to do otherwise would be to admit that there are separate standards for the people doing the same thing for the same conduct.”
Horowitz released a February 2018 report detailing multiple instances where McCabe “lacked candor” with then-FBI Director James Comey and with investigators related to his disclosure to the media of sensitive information on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton-related matters. Comey says he didn’t give McCabe permission to leak.
Sessions fired McCabe the next month, stating that McCabe “made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
In August of this year, McCabe filed a lawsuit against DOJ, claiming he’d been targeted by Trump and that his firing was unlawful and politically-motivated. CNN hired McCabe as a contributor shortly thereafter.
News emerged recently that the DOJ is close to reaching a decision on whether to charge McCabe for leaking and then lying about it.
