Former FBI agent says McCabe 'targeted', 'slandered' her

Robyn Gritz, a former FBI counterterrorism agent spoke about the recently fired former FBI Deputy Director Andy McCabe's op-ed. McCabe titled the Washington Post piece, "Not in my worst nightmares did I dream my FBI career would end this way." This is because he believes, somehow, that he was above the scrutiny that regular FBI agents are under.

Gritz, who served 16 years with the bureau fighting terrorism, told "Fox and Friends" that she was in a restaurant when she heard of McCabe's firing and she shouted out loud when hearing the news because it brought back memories of how she was allegedly mistreated by him and the agency.

She said she began working with McCabe in 2005 until she eventually resigned several years later after McCabe allegedly retaliated against her for filing a harassment claim against one of her supervisors.

Gritz attested that while working as a "detailee" to the CIA, her boss began "scrutinizing [her] work and asking questions" about how she was apparently "fragile" after her divorce.

She said of her boss at the time [not McCabe] that "He made some discriminatory comments about why I was traveling and such." 

When she learned that this boss was making similar comments to a black coworker, Gritz said she decided to file a complaint against him. She said that when she filed the suit, McCabe signed off on an internal investigation against her, adding that "he knew that I was either filing or going to file the [case]."

She said that she "went through hell for a year and a half" and that "Andy made sure I couldn't get out of the division."

She also alleged that McCabe made "nasty, false" comments about her in a meeting. He was "lying," she said, "which is why he just got fired."

Gritz said that dozens of former FBI coworkers called her to celebrate McCabe's "being held accountable," which seems to rarely be the outcome for those in power. 


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