investigation. i want people to understand how extraordinarily rare it is for her to tell evan. when you re trained as a prosecutor, anytime you re asked about an ongoing investigation, it s cannot confirm or deny, cannot comment on a pending matter. we ve heard that from doj countless times. normal doj policy is to not confirm or deny anything except in extraordinary circumstances. this was a conscious decision and i think what s going on here is they understand. they operate in the real world and every once in a while, the justice department has to reassure the american people we re aware of this. we re on it. we re taking a look at it. we don t know when they started their investigation. still, here we are. a year later. bottom line, do these fake certificates constitute a federal crime? i can see ways they could. i m going to do what prosecutors do now, which is typically you look for the straightest line to a charge.
as i understand it we re reading the tea leaves that he was advised against it and advised correctly that it would be a departure from normal doj policy. as far as i know, he was not ordered to stand down. i think as we reconstruct this months from now, that will be one of the questions that s asked. could there and should there have been a stronger basic an outright rejection of his intended course of action. does the fbi director now have an obligation to clarify what was in those e-mails, considering it s so close to the election? as much as possible, he needs to do that. unleashing a cryptic bombshell is probably not good enough. we don t know what might be there. at a minimum, if his focus is the an ththony wiener laptop an the view there may have been information in there that wasn t supposed to be in the hands of a civilian who would not have been authorized, if this is about
surveillance. tell us what this means. what this means is special agents, the low-level guys will have to get right now superior approval before they can go through your trash and do certain investigation on individuals. under this proposed eric holder justice department change, they will have to no longer get approval from supervisors. they can just do it themselves. this is a departure from normal d.o.j. policy. when i was there virtually everything you did had teeb proved. in the voting section you can t even send out an email without having the political appointees look at it. this is a marked departure from d.o.j. policy that raises questions about civil liberties. alisyn: it puts more control notice hand of field agents which would make them happy and help them crack more cases. the reality of it is no