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The discrepancy between Comey's recollection and McCabe's statements to internal investigators about authorizing FBI officials to talk to a reporter about an ongoing investigation regarding the Clinton Foundation in 2016 served as one of the linchpins to
the inspector general's earlier report finding he "lacked candor."
Grassley wrote to the FBI Tuesday requesting that McCabe be released from a nondisclosure agreement that prevents him from providing those emails, among other records.
McCabe was fired from the FBI in March less than two days shy of his retirement
after rocky final months of service. During the 2016 campaign, then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump latched on to a report that McCabe's wife accepted nearly $
500,000 from the political action committee of then-Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Clinton family ally, during a failed bid for state Senate in
2015. Though McCabe was not promoted to deputy director at the FBI until months
after his wife
lost the race, Trump continues to assert on Twitter that McCabe had a conflict of interest in later overseeing the FBI's investigation into Clinton's use of a
private email server, given the donations to his wife.
Grassley has set the Judiciary hearing for next Monday, but it could be delayed, as the inspector general's report -- while a moving target -- is still
not public yet. Sources familiar with the report describe it as a massive undertaking, walking through
the events leading up to the 2016 election over roughly 500 pages.

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