have what we are apparently but the big question to me about seeing in scotland where you the shape of this race right now have air force crews staying at is how much does enthusiasm matter the hotel. at one level, a enthusiastic not likely the lowest cost hotel voter gets to cast as many votes in the area, and staying there as an unenthusiastic voter for multiple days. but if you ve been on the trail, that s why i ve requested the i.g. from the department of you also get a kind of spidey defense to do a detailed study sense when you re at an event with a ton of people that of what exactly is happening so we can get a better handle on something s happening. joining me now to talk about this we need to get the facts. relative importance of enthusiasm, nate silver, chief have you gotten a response from the dod i.g. on that? of 538 nate, i wonder how you think i haven t talked to him about this when you re looking directly i did talk to the air force at state polling, national polling
thousands of pages of documentation and males and they are giving a thorough review. based on everything i have read, i do think it has been a thorough, impartial and by the book review. with that said, it is terribly important that people hear directly from witnesses and be able to weigh that credibility. again, i think that is a missed opportunity. there are multiple ways that victims can report these things. they can do it anonymously, to the d.o.d. ig. directly through the chain of command. you can do it in a way that will be fully investigated. you can do it in a way that you can just get medical care. yeah. and you can turn it into a full investigation later. it is crucial. i know it s hard. it is crucial that people get the word out, reporting early is the way to do it. while evidence may still exist and where the investigation can be conducted more thoroughly. deborah lee james, always important to have your perspective.
in now? general mcchrystal gave this interview that was just devastating its indictment of mr. trump as being amoral and incompetent and dishonest. i m sure it got under his skin. mcchrystal had been shot at a lot by real bullets. i don t think he s going to be too concerned about the president s tweet. it does underscore one thing, though. the lack of civility coming out of the white house now is almost childish. you can say a lot of thinks about mcchrystal. he had a hit piece published on him while he was in afghanistan. i think president obama had to take him out of office. later on he was cleared by dod ig. one thing you can say about mcchrystal is we owe him a lot for our national safety since 9/11. this guy is probably the best fighter, irregular warfare fighter we ve had since world war ii. it s astonishing to me that the national security process is
story, don. i ve watched this for a while. i don t know exactly what is happening inside sidcom, but truthfully, rick is a great guy to answer. he s been an intelligence analyst. i ve taken intelligence product from my analyst and measured not only what they say on paper, what they ve done in terms of their written products, but also combined that with some other products that come from the field, the signals snalgs, the human intelligence that comes in that sometimes don t get it into the report, and you also the analyst res separated from what s going on on the ground, which can only be provided by the people on the scene and the commanders. so i don t know what s going to happen on this report and the dod ig is going to investigate it. but it seems to me like this may be some problems inside the central command intelligence instruct. it may be leadership issues. it may be just the way these things are processed, but the analysts sometimes get a little
as someone who is a whistleblower, what was your experience in trying to blow the whistle from inside the nsa? and does it make you understand why snowden might have done what he did? oh, absolutely. i learned the hard way, you cannot trust any of the internal supposed mechanisms that are there for oversight. the chain of command, the i.g. s office, even at the d.o.d. i.g. i found was basically trying to put a knife in my back. the whistleblower protection act does not apply to the intelligence community. they re exempt from it. most people in the intelligence community, they don t realize that. so you can t even go to the office of special counsel because they re exempt from that, too, and the merit system protection board. so even if you use the intelligence community whistleblower protection act, the only thing that gives you is the right to go to congress. it doesn t have any teeth there