IG Report Knocks Down GOP Talking Point On McCabe

By Allegra Kirkland | June 14, 2018 4:43 pm

The Justice Department Inspector General report released Thursday knocked down the Republican talking point that former FBI official Andrew McCabe mishandled a significant conflict of interest during his oversight of the various investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.

According to the report, McCabe was “not at any time required to recuse” from Clinton-related investigations.

Republicans, including President Trump, have called McCabe’s impartiality into question because his wife, during her failed 2015 state senate run, accepted funds from a political group linked to then-Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton ally.

McCabe was fired as FBI deputy director in March. A separate DOJ IG report criticized McCabe for misleading investigators about his role in leaks to the press concerning one of the Clinton investigations.

The IG report released Thursday did say McCabe could have chosen to recuse himself, and that doing so would’ve helped ease any perception that he was biased towards Clinton. The report also noted that once McCabe did officially step back from all Clinton-related probes on Nov. 1, 2016, he “did not fully comply with his recusal in a few instances.”

more
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/inspector-general-report-mccabe-recusal-okay-clinton-cases