very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
they live in a very dangerous neighborhood. and he intimated that he d been messaging with the crown prince on whatsapp. so here you have the whole u.s. federal government saying the saudis might be complicit in the murder of a u.s. person, working to develop policy options for the president to hold them accountable, and his son is conducting a parallel track side diplomacy with the crown prince and defending his actions. that was extremely worrisome. i have no doubt it affected the trajectory of u.s. foreign policy in that time period in addition to potentially benefitting people financially after the fact. but because we don t have transparency about what happened then, we don t know whether these financial transactions have any tie to official actions that were taken in that time. my last question for you, why is this coming out now? why are kelly s experiences something that you re able to report out now that maybe earlier were not able to be learned? it took an enormous amount