The fisa warrants . The concern grows out of the fact the failures in information that should have been given wasnt given and the question being what was the intent . What was the motivation and what we have determined was we could not definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people come up fairly well educated . Well, well educated. I was going to say. They have law degrees, right . At least some of them do. So for people at this level of the organization . To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the view was basic staff. You didnt need to be deeply experienced fbi agent to be able to do with the right way. That is my point. Wouldnt you say that would be Muscle Memory for people going through this process to know that they have an obligation to go through that . They clearly should have. So wouldnt it be reasonable if they didnt call you cant answer this question but to me, it seems have something a standard at that process for you go to fisa court, to not
Warrants . The concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and The Information that shouldved been given and wasnt given. And the question being what was the intent . What what washa their intention . Their motivation there. And what we determined was we couldnt definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people . Fairly welleducated . At least welleducated. I dont know if theyre smart. I dont know if were very smart to beow honest with you. I was b going to say they have law degrees, right . At least somehe of them do. So you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the woods review was basic stuff. Yeah. You didnt need to be a deeplyexperienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. Well, thats my point. So wouldnt you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligation to go through that . They clear
testimonial evidence. the political bias or improper motivation influence the decisions to open the four individual investigations. your words. correct. no documentary evidence and no testimonial evidence. so you didn t find any documents that said, we did this to get trump. right? or text messages like the peter strzok lisa page text messages. and nobody who was involved in this circus without a tent look to in the eye and said, yep, i did it to get trump. nobody did that. were for example, a whistle-blower comment where other people tell us they had heard something. the agent looked you in the eye, yeah, you are right i did it to get trump. nobody came through a different means and i have a problem here, what is going on? you don t have to qualify as
when let s move to the whistle-blower question once more. and i m shifting topics completely. this came up several times today. i understand your point that whistle-blower is entitled to anonymity. but explain to me how it happens that the person accused when a whistle-blower makes an accusation, can have the right that most americans think they should have two confront those testifying against them? how is that accomplished? so i will speak to what we do. we get anonymous allegations frequently. we get people coming forward who are reporting misconduct to onee to be anonymous, stay anonymous and we get them both ways. keep me anonymous and anonymous complaints. we move forward on both if we think they are sufficient to move forward on amp predicated and have support. but we then have to prove the allegations and get cooperation for it because you are right.
one of theam highest profile, i not the highest profile, case in the fbi. involving a presidential campaign. i understand that. i appreciate that. i think it is explicable. but i understand that you can t or at least aren t going to make that jump. you are going to refer these cases. heuh-huh. and ca and i appreciate th. is criminal prosecution a possible action in the cases other than the one you ve specifically referred?ct i i wouldn t want to prejudice or prejudge anything. i d leave it to the department to speak to you on that. all right. let me go on for just a moment. when when when let let s move to the whistle-blower question just once more. i m shiftinges topics completel. it s come up several times today and i understand your point that a whistle-blower is entitled to anonymity. uh-huh. to me how it happens