Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Sunday said he felt he wasn’t going to be in the job “for very long” after James Comey was fired as director in May 2017.
In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” McCabe was pressed on a text between anti-President Donald Trump FBI staffers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok in which they they wrote of the “need to open the case we've been waiting on now while Andy is acting” FBI director.
“I can't tell you what Lisa and Pete were referring to in their private texts,” McCabe replied. “I think I've been very clear publicly about how the investigators felt about the work that we needed to do in May of 2017 after Director Comey was fired. They made a recommendation to me that we open cases. I acted on that recommendation.
“I was feeling, I felt very strongly at that time that I needed to make those decisions quickly because I anticipated I would not be in the acting role for very long and I didn't know who would be coming in behind me or how they would handle the ongoing investigation that we thought was important to conclude,” he said.
McCabe also was quizzed on what the pair meant when they wrote in 2016 of an “insurance policy” against Trump’s election.
“Lisa Page, Pete Strzok and I and many other members of that investigative team met in my office, in conference rooms around FBI headquarters all the time,” McCabe said.
“I can't sit here and tell you years later the circumstances of exactly that instance that they seem to be referring to in that text. I also wasn't a participant in that text, so I can't add too much more to your understanding of it.”
Strzok has denied any plot behind his texts with Page, and McCabe said “I take him at his word for that description.”
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