McCabe began his FBI career in the New York Field Office in 1996 . While there , he was on the SWAT team . In 2003 , he began work as a supervisory special agent at the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force . Later , McCabe held management positions in the FBI Counterterrorism Division , the FBI National Security Branch and the FBI 's Washington Field Office . In 2009 , he served as the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group , a program to research interrogation techniques that was created after the Department of Defense Directive 2310 ban of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques . McCabe was part of the investigation of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing . McCabe secured the arrest of Ahmed Abu Khattala for suspected involvement in the 2012 Benghazi attack
2012 Benghazi attack
2012 Benghazi attack
Andrew McCabe