McCabe was ‘careless’.
Via Daily Mail:
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andew McCabe has spoken out in a op-ed, calling President Donald Trump ‘cruel’ for celebrating his firing.
‘I was sad, but not surprised, to see that such unhinged public attacks on me would continue into my life after my service to the FBI,’ McCabe wrote of the President’s tweets in a Friday op-ed for the Washington Post.
McCabe wrote that he was waiting pensively for his ‘long-planned, earned retirement’ to kick in when he learned he’d been fire on March 16, just 26 hours before his pension was due to kick in.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the firing in a statement, saying that an investigation had found that McCabe had ‘made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor – including under oath – on multiple occasions’.
McCabe blasted back at those allegations in his op-ed, saying they were simply ‘not true’.
‘I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators. When asked about contacts with a reporter that were fully within my power to authorize as deputy director, and amid the chaos that surrounded me, I answered questions as completely and accurately as I could,’ he wrote.
‘And when I realized that some of my answers were not fully accurate or may have been misunderstood, I took the initiative to correct them.
‘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. But that is not a lack of candor,’ he continued.