our brand, based on the report now, the inspector general i have terminated the employment of andrew mccabe effective immediately. now mccabe is not taking this quietly. in the his own statement. he s fighting back as well he might. he is no doubt worried about criminal prosecution or perhaps a lawsuit in the future to, gain his pension back. he writes for the last year and a half my family and i have been the targets of an unrelenting a assault on our reputation and my service to the country. articles two numerous to count have leveled every false, defamtory degration. the president tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. he called for my firing. the oig focus on me became part of an unprecedented part of the administration, driven by the president myself to remove me from my position. destroy my reputation and possibly strip me of a pension i
we have seen it with other individuals within the administration that have had those proceedings against them. obviously mike anyone is one of them. it could fall on his doorstep and will boil down to what is in the investigation? what s in the report? and whether it is criminal charges. when mercedes invokes the name of michael flynn facing charges of lying to the fbi. our producers looked at least 17 fbi personnel have been fired in recent years for lack of candor and were not officially under oath. just in some employee setting they were lacking candor. they made a false statement. my question d michael flin was charged for making a falls statement to the fbi. to the opr.
office of professional responsibility,. theirern ternal affairs bureau or to the inspector general he could be subbed to the same criminal prosecution that clinton was. this is what infuriates people lower level fbi officials. they make a false statement. their whole lives are destroyed. in the case of andrew mccabe, he says it is unfair. it is donald trump trying to shut me up. there should be equal justice. it should be equal. they all go by the same book, the same policies, same procedures. he would be no different. if the attorney general is right, if his at the same time is right, then he has a problem and he may have a bigger problem, depending on what is in the i.g. report and what the opr found in the their investigation. it is happening in a broader context. james comey trying to tell his side of the story. ending a week on one hand house