[SFGate] Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI after becoming a frequent target of criticism from the president, is joining the growing list of ex-government officials to publish Trump-related books."The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump" will publish Dec. 4, McCabe's publisher, St. Martin's Press, announced Tuesday. The book will offer McCabe's "candid account of his career and an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents, integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution," the publisher said.
"I wrote this book because the president's attacks on me symbolize his destructive effect on the country as a whole," McCabe said in a statement. "He is undermining America's safety and security, and eroding public confidence in its institutions. His attacks on the most crucial institutions of government, and on the professionals who serve within them, should make every American stand up and take notice."
McCabe, who spent 22 years in the FBI, has become something of a lightning rod in the political battles over the FBI and the probe of whether Trump's campaign interfered in the 2016 election.