that can impact elections. you re always very sensitive to taking an action that a political opponent might try to use in the course of an election. you want to make sure you re not being used in that way. so you can imagine if you re talking about issues that are on the national stage you are hyperfocused on those issues as well. you know, you don t want to have to be unfair and to have information used inappropriately and you also want to make sure that the public continues to have confidence in the department of justice ads well. that obviously raises the question about jim comey and the fbi yeah. acting 12 days before the 2016 election. that would seem to violate that principle. it does. there is an i.g. investigation of that as well. director comey s actions with respect to that letter as well as the july press conference. so i m not going to talk about that either until that s over. he published a book to great
treating them differently but i think certainly comey s critics still believe that him sailing out in july and doing that press conference was unnecessary, ill advised, not in conformance with normal justice department procedures then it led to the unraveling when you got into anthony weiner s laptop. so was that press conference a mistake? i haven t found people inside the justice department or the fbi who if they had a do over would do it the same way and comey himself who has been offer his extremely defensive of the decisions the fbi made, he wrote in his book that if he had it to do over he would hold the press conference but he wouldn t editorialize and call clinton s behavior extremely careless so i think the july press conference is coming ins for serious criticism with the inspector
they really feel he has been treating not just all of the people he s attacking by name but really the work of everyone in the fbi and the justice department in a way that s completely unfair and tarnishes the tarnishes the reputation of those two fine agencies. so that at the same time that s happening, though, there is this outstanding inspector general report. and so you know, there are questions hanging over jim baker, hanging over lisa page. not for what the president has accused them of but of course their role in the 2016 election, what they advised jim comey to do both in making the july holding the july press conference and releasing that letter so close to the election. so while i think people resent the attacks and see them as unfair, i think people are being treated unfairly, inside the fbi there is a little bit of withholding of judgment until people not just inside the department but outside, alumni like myself can see that inspector general report and see what some
the psalm time the president s really been mounting an attack. how does that play within doj, within the fbi? it s a little bit of a mixed bag because people inside the justice department and inside the bureau really resent the attacks by the president and they really feel he has been treating not just all of the people he s attacking by name but really the work of everyone in the fbi and the justice department in a way that s completely unfair and tarnishes the tarnishes the reputation of those two fine agencies. so that at the same time that s happening, though, there is this outstanding inspector general report. and so you know, there are questions hanging over jim baker, hanging over lisa page. not for what the president has accused them of but of course their role in the 2016 election, what they advised jim comey to do both in making the july holding the july press conference and releasing that letter so close to the election. so while i think people resent the attacks and
is this outstanding inspector general report. and so you know, there are questions hanging over jim baker, hanging over lisa page. not for what the president has accused them of but of course their role in the 2016 election, what they advised jim comey to do both in making the july holding the july press conference and releasing that letter so close to the election. so while i think people resent the attacks and see them as unfair, i think people are being treated unfairly, inside the fbi there is a little bit of withholding of judgment until people not just inside the department but outside, alumni like myself can see that inspector general report and see what some of these factors that have been rumored for so long actually are. and among the things that rod rosenstein said today in these public remarks was that inspector general report should be out in a matter of weeks. we ll see. he s been saying that for a while. i know people who have been subject to that report, their att