WASHINGTON — James Comey’s former No. 2 at the FBI carefully claimed that he was “not aware” of his old boss authorizing leaks that are central to the indictment handed down against Comey last week .

Andrew McCabe, who served as the FBI deputy director from 2016 to 2018 and has a history of not being forthcoming with the truth, also insisted the evidence in the indictment is “far from clear enough” to support prosecution of Comey for making false statements to Congress.

“All I can say to Jake is I’m not aware of Jim Comey ever authorizing some other person to leak information,” McCabe told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. 3

“That’s not something I experienced personally. It’s not something I saw in all the time I spent working around Jim Comey,” he said.

“So I can’t sit here a

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