existed in the stalinist regime. it signals intense defensiveness and also signals utter disregard for the norms of civil society and freedom of expression that we would care about. it s not a sign of success. it s a sign of desperation that mr. putin has to move things this far and this fast. it s striking what you just said. i want to underscore it, folks may have heard, part of this repression is measurably worse than what was done under stalin, as a historian, i take that to be your objective assessment of the facts, not your opinions that you like or dislike putin a certain amount. could you expound on that a little or explain what you mean by worse than that era. i m not saying the whole era is worse. i m talking about expression. specifically on free expression. you re saying people today have
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ig report was released, there was a lot of hyping up that this was going to blow everything wide open. that was a pretty objective assessment. so i think that this was a lot of performance. i think it s unfortunate that strzok can t speak to how they opened the investigation. i think i understand the fbi not wanting him to, but i think it would clarify a lot about how bias couldn t even really make it into an investigation when it s opened because of the way you have to articulate your factual basis for opening an investigation. you can t just say, hey, i have a hunch or i feel this way, you have to point to things you ve observed or seen. so we can t get that information, but i think that would be clarifying and take us out of the realm of just talking about his texts. josh, you re a former supervisory fbi agent. i assume you worked at some point or crossed paths with peter strzok.
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