i want to tone things down a little bit here and first express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. i come from a background as a prosecutor and our local law enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, i ve had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. and i think the inspector general he s job is incredibly important. he keeps everyone honest. but i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in law enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. which i think is basically some recommendations foric change wh the inspector general found in this report. so before iis start my question
i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. it is nowe undisputed by our intelligence agencies t
warrants? the concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and the information that should ved been given and wasn t given. and the question being what was the intent? what what washa their intention? their motivation there. and what we determined was we couldn t definitively say what the motivation was. are these pretty smart people? fairly well-educated? at least well-educated. i don t know if they re smart. i don t know if we re 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 didn t happen on the woods review was basic stuff. yeah. you didn t need to be a deeply-experienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. well, that s my point. so wouldn t you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obliga
Guidelines, an investigation has an i authorized purpose if it i open to detect, obtain information or protect against federalio crimes or threats to e national security or to collect foreign intelligence. you found that the investigation at issue today was open to determine whether peoplen associated with the trump campaign were coordinating with the russian government. right? go that is the reason the fbi provided. and again to be clear, you did not find that tfbi acted improper will when opening this case? that s right. the department s guidelines also require that decision to open an investigation is supported byve as you describe your report allegations, reports, facts or circumstances that indicate the possibility of criminal active are national security threat. you found that the fbi s investigation was predicated on
Investigate misconduct committed byve the attorney general of th united states.ct who is doing the bidding of the president to undermine our intelligence community. and i trust you take that duty seriously. i i do. and i d just like to add that, under the law, under the inspector general act, it carves out for my authority, the ability to look at misconduct by department lawyers from the line lawyer all the l way to the top and the attorney general. history has also shown us that the inspector general can participate in an investigation of the attorney general. and that, in fact, happened with general gonzales. do you recall that? that happened and go it s worth noting that happened after the attorney general said our office was not going to get the case. it was going to go to the office of professional responsibility. and the choice for our office was whether to join that investigation or not.or but that wasn t initiated through us. that s the important point. the law has to c
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