imagine we wouldn t be sharing that with the justice department. it s amazing, knowing what i know now. there was no tiger team sharing the information. for me it was doing counterterrorism for a long hours looking at that is a terrorism investigation. i really felt there should have been the first day we started. in hindsight i think that might have been a mistake that kind of data sharing wasn t happening. to that point, there was a back and forth, both while you are working with committee subsequent to your departure from the committee, all the way to the end of the committee s work, both in the hearings in the report about it, report appeared to. question about sharing, in the committee being kind of, like, we re not going to share what we re finding with you until we and it always felt to me like part of the subtext to that was, you can go find this stuff. to your point, what is so wild about this and about lawrence tribe saying on this program in december 21, so a secret, s
would ve been an early source of ridge into the crowd sourcing, if you opened it up into a crowd, you get lots of tips and leads. and that s exactly what happened. given the time when this happened, as you say, it was pressing, to things that happened in a more complete sway, tragically, since he was arrested. , tragically, since what do youe for the fbi, being an insider and working on this, and the concern, the level of concern within the fbi trying to find this guy? it was like a needle in the haystack. this was one of the cases i was trained on as a brand-new agent of the fbi academy. it was one of the terrorism cases that they trained on, like what do you do when you have a lone actor whose highly intelligent, who knows how to come cover their tracks, who uses a somewhat random pattern and tries to trace it out when they re delivering it to the mail. it is the last the pre-internet, highly complex terrorism investigation. there were hundreds if not thousands of agents that wor