the agencies including the department of justice and releasing this memo. if we release this were going to have to start telling the public a lot more about what we are doing and we don t want to. will they have to? that s what s most disturbing about this. you have a disconnect between what the fbi said emma what democratic member said about the release of this memo. those of us who have been working in national security cases expect there to be some type of footprint of sources and methods. this thing wasn t even remotely classified. that concerns a lot of us because the use of classification laws for tactical purposes, if you look at what the fbi said, they said we wantt this thing to remain classified because it s inaccurate due to a mission. that s complaining about how the fact is being betrayed, not how
memo, he would not only be endangering our country, he would also be violatinghe the rules of the congress of the united states. the release of this memo is reminiscent of the darkest days of the mccarthyhe era. there is zero proof or evidence that there is political bias in the fbi. if you say it long enough and often enough, there will be people who have doubts about it. it s a profoundly unpatriotic thing to do. tucker: you re not patriotic if you want your questions answered. democrats are lashing out. something profound is happening here. they are very upset by the release of the memo. house minority leader nancy pelosi said president trump just sent his friend putin a bouquet. congressman, many democrats including democratic leaders pelosi and schiff said before its release, it would jeopardize
everything the fbi does should be out in the open and we should be having questions about things likeke this. nothing about any of these cases and what has been now confirmed in the memo has ever looked normal. we have to ask ourselves what were so many safeguards and guidelines and procedures but we always followed never followed here? i will say one more thing to that. when i went into the fbi, we had a saying that you don t want to be concerneded about propriety, you also want to be equally concerned about the appearance of impropriety. in fact, i have a lot of friends and colleagues that got in a lot of trouble because of the appearance of impropriety and this has that at the very minimum written all overt it. tucker: just to make sure i m clear on this, you don t feel diminished as a veteran of the fbi when people ask questions about its behavior. not at all.
testimony and othercu details. there is no disclosure of new sources, it was confirming that the dossier was a critical part ing securing that fisa order. the question returns us to why did all of these members say this would jeopardize nationalab security? we can have disagreements about what to do with the fbi. we should not have disagreements about something like this. when you say there is a national security risk about a document being released and it s something of this kind of they have any sources or sensitive information it s a problem. it s a lying to american people. tucker: we have a member of the intel committee on an in a minute. i m going to lead with that. one former fbi official thinks it s a profound problem forxp te country he joins is next, to explain why
tucker: most media outlets have spent far more time and effort covering the fbi memo s release than the actual allegations contained in the memo itself. it s almost like thee allegatios which are that the u.s. government illegitimately spied on its own citizens barely matter to them. i don t care about you. andrew clave and is contributing editor at city general, they both join us tonight. this pertains to the agency you spent p so much time at, you are hearing people on other channels, almost a chorus of it is becoming hysterical that people who are interested in seeing this information or have questions about the fbi are unpatriotic, they are insulting the men and women of the fbi. you think that? i don t think that at all.i