McCabe was fired for misconduct in March 2018 after a year-long internal investigation and on recommendation of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility for lying to investigators when he claimed disgraced FBI Director [[James Comey]] authorized [[leak]]s to the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' about the investigations into the [[Clinton Foundation]] which McCabe was overseeing. McCabe's wife had taken $700,000 from Clinton donors shortly after the investigations began and McCabe never recused himself. | McCabe was fired for misconduct in March 2018 after a year-long internal investigation and on recommendation of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility for lying to investigators when he claimed disgraced FBI Director [[James Comey]] authorized [[leak]]s to the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' about the investigations into the [[Clinton Foundation]] which McCabe was overseeing. McCabe's wife had taken $700,000 from Clinton donors shortly after the investigations began and McCabe never recused himself. |