Swordsmyth
04-18-2018, 09:28 PM
Comey stopped by ABC's The View to peddle his new book, A Higher Royalty Loyalty, where he called his former Deputy Andrew McCabe a liar, and admitted that he "ordered the report" which found McCabe guilty of leaking to the press and then lying under oath about it, several times.
Comey was asked by host Megan McCain how he thought the public was supposed to have "confidence" in the FBI amid revelations that McCabe lied about the leak.
“It’s not okay. The McCabe case illustrates what an organization committed to the truth looks like,” Comey said. “I ordered that investigation.”
Comey then appeared to try and frame McCabe as a "good person" despite all the lying.
“Good people lie. I think I’m a good person, where I have lied,” Comey said. “I still believe Andrew McCabe is a good person but the inspector general found he lied,” noting that there are "severe consequences" within the DOJ for doing so.
As a reminder, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, released a report last week detailing his conclusions from the months-long probe of McCabe, which found that the former acting FBI Director leaked a self-serving story to the press and then lied about it under oath.
In response, McCabe's attorney, Michael R. Bromwich (flush with cash from the disgraced Deputy Director's half-million dollar legal defense GoFundMe (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-02/mccabe-gofundme-shut-down-after-540000-donations)campaign), fired back - claiming that Comey was well aware of the leaks.
"In his comments this week about the McCabe matter, former FBI Director James Comey has relied on the Inspector Genera's (OIG) conclusions in their report on Mr. McCabe. In fact, the report fails to adequately address the evidence (including sworn testimony) and documents that prove that Mr. McCabe advised Director Comey repeatedly that he was working with the Wall Street Journal on the stories in question..." reads the statement in part.
#BREAKING (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw): Statement from Andrew McCabe’s attorney claims McCabe told @Comey (https://twitter.com/Comey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) repeatedly that he was working with The Wall Street Journal. pic.twitter.com/dAptPpvvzj (https://t.co/dAptPpvvzj)
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) April 18, 2018 (https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/986695115560271872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) So to review (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-13/trump-ecstatic-after-oig-releases-report-which-led-mccabe-firing), McCabe was fired when it was uncovered that he authorized an F.B.I. spokesman and attorney to tell Devlin Barrett of the Wall St. Journal (https://archive.is/u1ROD), just days before the 2016 election, that the FBI had not put the brakes on a separate investigation into the Clinton Foundation - at a time in which McCabe was coming under fire for his wife taking a $467,500 campaign contribution from Clinton proxy pal, Terry McAuliffe.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-18/comey-calls-mccabe-liar-mccabes-attorneys-fire-back
Comey was asked by host Megan McCain how he thought the public was supposed to have "confidence" in the FBI amid revelations that McCabe lied about the leak.
“It’s not okay. The McCabe case illustrates what an organization committed to the truth looks like,” Comey said. “I ordered that investigation.”
Comey then appeared to try and frame McCabe as a "good person" despite all the lying.
“Good people lie. I think I’m a good person, where I have lied,” Comey said. “I still believe Andrew McCabe is a good person but the inspector general found he lied,” noting that there are "severe consequences" within the DOJ for doing so.
As a reminder, the Justice Department's internal watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, released a report last week detailing his conclusions from the months-long probe of McCabe, which found that the former acting FBI Director leaked a self-serving story to the press and then lied about it under oath.
In response, McCabe's attorney, Michael R. Bromwich (flush with cash from the disgraced Deputy Director's half-million dollar legal defense GoFundMe (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-02/mccabe-gofundme-shut-down-after-540000-donations)campaign), fired back - claiming that Comey was well aware of the leaks.
"In his comments this week about the McCabe matter, former FBI Director James Comey has relied on the Inspector Genera's (OIG) conclusions in their report on Mr. McCabe. In fact, the report fails to adequately address the evidence (including sworn testimony) and documents that prove that Mr. McCabe advised Director Comey repeatedly that he was working with the Wall Street Journal on the stories in question..." reads the statement in part.
#BREAKING (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw): Statement from Andrew McCabe’s attorney claims McCabe told @Comey (https://twitter.com/Comey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) repeatedly that he was working with The Wall Street Journal. pic.twitter.com/dAptPpvvzj (https://t.co/dAptPpvvzj)
— Ryan Saavedra 🇺🇸 (@RealSaavedra) April 18, 2018 (https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/986695115560271872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) So to review (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-13/trump-ecstatic-after-oig-releases-report-which-led-mccabe-firing), McCabe was fired when it was uncovered that he authorized an F.B.I. spokesman and attorney to tell Devlin Barrett of the Wall St. Journal (https://archive.is/u1ROD), just days before the 2016 election, that the FBI had not put the brakes on a separate investigation into the Clinton Foundation - at a time in which McCabe was coming under fire for his wife taking a $467,500 campaign contribution from Clinton proxy pal, Terry McAuliffe.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-18/comey-calls-mccabe-liar-mccabes-attorneys-fire-back