disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people who are not charged with crimes. but we just heard you saying that people should see the bir report, that evidence underlying it. democrats were upset in 2016 when then-fbi director james comey publicly accused hillary clinton of wrongdoing but then said she shouldn t be indicted. why shouldn t allegations that don t reach an indictment threshold, talking not about the president but on everybody else, stay confidential in. well, because we need to know what was going on here. it s not just the question of indictments. it s a question of protecting the rule of law and of obstruction of justice and abuses of power and protecting our government and our whole system. and it s been subjected to an unprecedented attack. law enforcement agencies have been subjected to an unprecedented smear campaign by the president against the fbi, the special prosecutor, other law enforcement agencies. we have to know the facts so