what should we think of that? i do not believe that. in an investigation of this caliber and with an arrest that s this important, it is, frankly, unbelievable that he would not have been mirandized at some point. law enforcement today, i m guessing a majority of those officers might have had body cams on, so there might be some evidence. absolutely. they may or may not have body cams on, but this is just standard operating procedure. so i can think of no good reason why, you know, the agents would deviate from what is, you know, a very standard practice in this kind of an arrest. clint watts, none of us in our newsroom had any idea what a terabyte was today, but it just sounds bad. yeah. it sounds like, in layparlance, they found a mountain of stuff on this guy. sure. tera if you look, if you know those towers at the apple store, that s a 2 terabyte tower that would store multiple computers, multiple hard drives if you wanted to. it s a lot of data.
that? do you take that on face value? what should we think of that? i do not believe that. in an investigation of this caliber and with an arrest that s this important, it is, frankly, unbelievable that he would not have been mirandized at some point. law enforcement today, i m guessing a majority of those officers might have had body cams on, so there might be some evidence. absolutely. they may or may not have body cams on, but this is just standard operating procedure. so i can think of no good reason why, you know, the agents would deviate from what is, you know, a very standard practice in this kind of an arrest. clint watts, none of us in our newsroom had any idea what a terabyte was today, but it just sounds bad. yeah. it sounds like, in lay parlance, they found a mountain of stuff on this guy. sure. tera if you look, if you know those towers at the apple store, that s a 2 terabyte tower that would store multiple computers, multiple hard drives if you wanted to.
number one, what does it mean? do you take it on face value he s been told he s not a target? is that possible? so these are really legal terms of art within the department of justice. so there s sort of three categories that somebody can be in if you are within the scope of an investigation. you can be the most benign level, just a witness, you can be a subject to investigation or you can be a target. being a target really means that prosecutors have evidence or significant reason to believe you actually committed crimes in connection with this investigation and likely means you d be indicted. if you re called to testify before a grand jury and the prosecuors think that you are a target of this investigation, they re obligated to tell you. i will say, these are very fluid categories. so just because somebody was not a target one week, you could be the subject of an investigation one week, that should give a defendant no comfort that they would not then be a target the next week. w
take us inside. once he s at the facility in florida, you ve got investigators sitting across the table, staring and wondering why and how and was anyone else involved, what are those questions and how do they get him to talk? up to this point we have forensic evidence. now you have the ability to sit in front of at least an alleged subject and gather information. a lot will come down to is this person cooperative? is he proud of what he did? will he exhibit some of those mental health issues based on his past or does he clam up and decide he s not going to cooperate? a potential gold mine for law enforcement officers if he does decide if there are additional packages out there. in these types of incidents, once a subject is in custody, he has to be mirandized and this
answer the questions about who if anyone did it with them. that is the core jurisdiction of bob mueller. answer those and don t answer anymore. you don t simply have to answer question because it was asked. the optics of not answering the collusion conspiracy coordination questions are great. he is open to free legal advice which is usually worth what you pay for, answer questions related to the four two cores, what did russia do? do you know about it? who if anyone did they do it? the president said repeatedly he knew nothing about it and he told comey if anyone on my team did i want you to find out which tells me he doesn t know anything about it. answer the questions and don t answer the rest. shannon: i won t ask you when you were last mirandized. we will talk about that another time. thank you very much. we will dig into that separately.