evidence of that. there is an odd dichotomy. when the president acts in his article to commander in chief capacity he can fire national security officials, he can strip their clearances, and the supreme court tends to defer to that. the courts tend to defer to that. but when he does it for an improp improper motive, that s very different. that s what i think we are seeing here. particularly with respect to bruce ohr. he is a career guy, which is high praise in our line of work. he is a non-partisan apolitical career department of justice prosecutor. i don t know what to make of sne senator burr s comments. the bruce ohr i know is a professional and this is chilling. we have his riz may in our screen right now. associated attorney general at the u.s. department of justice, ran the crime and drug enforcement task force. demoted in 2017 because of alleged contacts with fusion
dave bowditch is the senior most official, not a political appointment, a career guy who came up through the ranks. secondly, i like peter strzok but he exhibited remarkably bad judgment. so when you go through the factors of whether someone is suspended, demoted, or fired, one of the factors is whether you bring disrepute to the agency, whether you bring shame to the fbi. sxher and he did. so it s not a crazy decision. in fact i understand why dave bowditch did what he did. he had become a poster child for the president, for everything that he hates about the alleged, so-called witch hunt. and given his experience of decades of service as the leading counterintelligence expert at a time when america is again under attack from russia in the upcoming midterms, what s the balance here? that s what pains me, because he s a good man and a good agent and he does really important
responsibility to shut it down. this needs to be over with soon. it s i think it s been very bad for the country. we re at a point in this inquiry where they can wrap it up. this has been the most transparent investigation in u.s. history. all of these documents given, all of these witnesses put forward, they really don t need to speak to the president. they haven t made the constitutional case to speak to the president. he doesn t mention all the stories changed. i would also say all the lies told. the president s lawyers, we ll see if they ever end up in go court, if they re good lawyers. there s no requirement on robert mueller, number one. number two, most people who know robert mueller think he s a career guy. he s not going to deliberately poke during an election season, but he s going to do his work. they re just trying to convince, what, the electorate that if bob mueller keeps going, he s a horrible person? it s an argument about propriety and if he were to do somethin
experienced career guy. so, yeah, threading the needle. carter page was on with chris hayes. chris hayes had one heck of a show last night. i watched it twice, it was so good. i saw it. carter page. this figure in the midst of all of this, claiming that he wants to have his fisa warrant declassified so that everybody can read it. what about all the confusion about the fisa warrants and whether the fbi acted appropriately or inappropriately and the doj, of course, in going to the fisa judge? i would sort of like to see it, too. but, frankly, as an institutionalist, i prefer these things to remain classified and under seal. that said, i participated in the fisa process when i worked for bob mueller at the fbi at his counsel, andrea. here s what i can tell you the process is really careful and really exacting. so mr. page ought to be careful about what he asks for because i m not so sure he really, truly wants all of this out in the public. there are also reports,
brennan, also put out a very strong response. he tweeted this. in response to the president, specifically. saying, he would take his place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. do you think brennan weighing in in this way is appropriate? well, he s obviously free to express his opinion. he had had unique insight as someone who served in government for many, many years. i thing that s one data point we have, as far as someone who has been in the room, who made those decisions. of course, a lot of people wisay he worked under the obama administration. they would, that s fair, but he s a career guy. good you look at his time throughout cia, he s someone who has served the country well and did so well before he was a political appointee. i think that s an important data point. let me point out one quick thing if i can with respect to what scott said. i m not disagreeing with what he said, but what are the consequences for people who politicize government, such as the fb