https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/status/986695115560271872?s=21

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953148&forum_id=2#35869646)

*crickets chirp, expectantly*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953148&forum_id=2#35869724)

the FBI is like the military: a finding that you "lack candor" is using a devastating term of art that means you cannot be trusted and are banished from the group.

remember that Comey chose McCabe even though McCabe hadn't done the full fieldwork route. McCabe was quickly just a striver bureaucrat currying favor with people who mattered.

also, remember that McCabe chewed out two guys for leaking -- which they denied -- and McCabe knew that he himself was actually the leaker! what a prick.

Here's a recount from a site that favors the FBI and hates Trump.

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Interview with FBI’s Inspection Division - May 9 2017

The report also finds that McCabe committed a lack of candor offense in an interview under oath with INSD on May 9, 2017. According to the report, in that interview, McCabe “falsely told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did.” The report states that “McCabe told [the agents] he recalled the article, yet claimed he had “no idea where [the account of the PADAG call] came from” or “who the source was.” Yet when interviewed by OIG, “McCabe said he did not believe that he denied authorizing the disclosure of the PADAG call during the interview,” but “could not provide any alternative account about what he actually said.”

According to the report “McCabe sought to portray the discussion about the October 30 article as essentially an afterthought by the agents,” which was “flatly contradicted” by the INSD section chief’s account of the interview. The report addresses the possibility that McCabe had forgotten about authorizing the disclosure at the time of his INSD interview but writes that, because of the significance of that authorization, this was “highly implausible.” As a result, OIG “conclude[s] that McCabe violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath)” in the May 9 interview.

Interview with OIG Investigators - July 28, 2017

The third instance of lack of candor identified by the report occurred in an audio-recorded interview under oath with OIG on July 28, 2017. In that interview, McCabe made the same assertions he made in the May 9 interview with INSD—stating “that he was not aware of [his aide] being authorized to speak to reporters around October 30” and that he did not know where the aide was or what she was doing during the relevant time period.

In a followup interview on Nov. 29, McCabe said he “misspoke” on the matter as a result of being surprised by OIG’s line of questioning. The report determines that, because of McCabe’s understanding of the significance of the investigation and his experience as a law enforcement officer, “his claim that his unequivocal denials under oath, on two occasions within 3 months of one another, were the result of being surprised by the questions” was not credible.

The report further finds that McCabe’s claim that he did not know about his aide’s whereabouts and activities lacked candor. Although McCabe was away from Washington, D.C. at the time, the report notes that “FBI records show that McCabe was in frequent telephone and text communication with [the aide] during that time period and had several communications with her regarding her calls with [the WSJ reporter].”

Interview with OIG Investigators - November 29, 2017

The final instance of McCabe’s lacking candor occurred in his second interview under oath with OIG investigators. The report notes that although McCabe called OIG four days after his July interview to say that he believed he may have authorized aides to work with the Journal on the Oct. 30, 2016 article, when he “was given the opportunity during his November 29 OIG interview to address and acknowledge his prior false statements to the INSD and the OIG, McCabe made additional false statements.”

According to the report, during the second OIG interview, McCabe claimed that he had told Comey about his decision to authorize the disclosure and that he had not denied the disclosure in the May 9 INSD interview, and characterized the May 9 interview as an afterthought. The report finds that all these statements were lacking in candor as the weight of the evidence supports the conclusion that they were false.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953148&forum_id=2#35870212)