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GUTHRIE: “I should mention the Department of Justice and Rosenstein in particular have said that these accounts are factually inaccurate. And that brings me actually to an issue that you have. And you were fired from the FBI, you were fired after the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found that you had displayed a lack of candor, which I think is FBI speak for not telling the truth, about a story that appeared in ‘The wall Street Journal’ and whether or not you authorized a leak of material that was in that article. Why should anyone believe you when you were fired from the FBI for lying?”
McCABE: “Yeah, it’s two reasons. Before the President started publicly attacking me, I enjoyed a 21-year career in the FBI at every level an agent can serve within the FBI and with absolutely not a single blemish on that career. Second reason, I believe very strongly I was fired because of the steps we’ve just discussed. I was fired because I opened a case against the President of the United States.”
GUTHRIE: “I read the Inspector General’s report. That suggests the inspector general is in on it and firing you for — basically making up a pretext to fire you. Is that what you’re suggesting?”
McCABE: “Here’s what I can tell you. I read that report very closely myself. I’ve been writing and reading investigative reports for over 20 years, and that report was not like anything I have ever read before. An investigative report includes all of the evidence. It includes all of the information, not just those facts that support the conclusion that you’d like to draw. So I have big problems with that report. I disagree with the conclusions they drew, and that is something that I’ll be raising in a civil lawsuit that I’ll be bringing against the Department of Justice.”
GUTHRIE: “It was quite detailed, and it states that you displayed this lack of candor, as it puts it, on four different occasions. That’s not just, ‘Well, we didn’t understand, I’m not sure, I was distracted.’ That’s four separate occasions in which the Inspector General says you were not forthcoming, you did not tell the truth.”
McCABE: “I would love to walk through every one of the points that I have for each one of those things they’ve said in that report, but I can’t do that with you this morning because of the lawsuit we’re about to file.”GUTHRIE: “It was quite detailed, and it states that you displayed this lack of candor, as it puts it, on four different occasions. That’s not just, 'Well, we didn’t understand, I’m not sure, I was distracted.' That’s four separate occasions in which the Inspector General says you were not forthcoming, you did not tell the truth.”