Really? Well thanks to the DOJ we can settle that one.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has only himself to blame for his ouster from the agency, Justice Department lawyers said in a U.S. court filing asking a judge to throw out McCabe’s wrongful-termination lawsuit.
“In the FBI, a lofty position does not lessen the need to abide by the ideals memorialized in its motto” of fidelity, bravery, integrity, the government’s lawyers said in papers filed Friday in a federal court in Washington. “Mr. McCabe’s actions here fell short of that bar.”
McCabe, the No. 2 man at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was fired on the eve of his eligibility for retirement with full benefits in March 2018. Weeks earlier, a Justice Department inspector general found he’d not been completely honest about his role in providing information to a Wall Street Journal reporter about an FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation, the charitable organization run by former President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea.
“We concluded that McCabe lacked candor on four separate occasions in connection with the disclosure to the WSJ,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a report made public in April 2018. “Three of those occasions involved his testimony under oath.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...ctions-at-fbi-are-what-got-him-fired-doj-says
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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has only himself to blame for his ouster from the agency, Justice Department lawyers said in a U.S. court filing asking a judge to throw out McCabe’s wrongful-termination lawsuit.
“In the FBI, a lofty position does not lessen the need to abide by the ideals memorialized in its motto” of fidelity, bravery, integrity, the government’s lawyers said in papers filed Friday in a federal court in Washington. “Mr. McCabe’s actions here fell short of that bar.”
McCabe, the No. 2 man at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was fired on the eve of his eligibility for retirement with full benefits in March 2018. Weeks earlier, a Justice Department inspector general found he’d not been completely honest about his role in providing information to a Wall Street Journal reporter about an FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation, the charitable organization run by former President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea.
“We concluded that McCabe lacked candor on four separate occasions in connection with the disclosure to the WSJ,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a report made public in April 2018. “Three of those occasions involved his testimony under oath.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/...ctions-at-fbi-are-what-got-him-fired-doj-says
