Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told a Senate committee on Tuesday that he would not have signed off on the FBI’s warrant application for surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page if he had been aware of the inaccuracies it contained. He also defended the agency’s probe as a legitimate investigation into Russian election interference and not a partisan bid to hurt President Donald Trump.
“The IG’s review of four FISA applications and other aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation details a significant number of errors and failures related to the FISA applications in this case,” McCabe told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 10, referring to the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (IOG) report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and alleged ties to members of the Trump campaign (pdf).
