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Ex-FBI deputy director faulted by Justice Department on media disclosure

McCabe said he was authorized, as deputy director, to disclose information about the August 2016 call

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The US Department of Justice’s inspector general released a report on Friday concluding that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe misled investigators about a decision to break with the agency’s standard policy and inform a journalist about a probe into the Clinton Foundation in 2016.

The highly anticipated report detailed an investigation that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited when he fired McCabe last month, hours before the 21-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was set to retire and receive his full pension.
 
Responding to the inspector general’s report, McCabe said he believed repeated calls by

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