Former FBI agent McCabe condemns 'unhinged attacks' by Trump
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has condemned the "extended humiliation" and "unhinged public attacks" he has endured from US President Donald Trump and his administration.
McCabe, who was fired just before his retirement this month, told the The Washington Post on Friday that he found out about his sacking third-hand from a friend who called to tell him about a news report. He had later received an email from the Justice Department.
"After two decades of public service, I found out that I had been fired in the most disembodied, impersonal way," he said.
According to the Justice Department, McCabe, who was the FBI's deputy under former director James Comey, was fired at the recommendation of an internal FBI office that deals with disciplinary matters.
Critics slammed the ouster as a "dangerous" ploy to discredit the nation’s top law enforcement agency as well as the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, an independent prosecutor appointed by the Justice Department to investigate Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US election.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe over accusation that that he misled internal investigators at the Justice Department.
Denying the allegations, McCabe said he "did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators," and that his contact with a reporter was "fully within my power to authorize as deputy director."
McCabe stepped down as deputy director in January after criticism by Trump, but the official was going on "terminal leave," which meant he would be on payroll by the time he retired.
The president, who fired former FBI Director Comey last year, has complained that McCabe is biased.
Like Comey, McCabe had been urged by Trump to drop the Russia investigation.
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