renquist, if i walked in and said there is a disturbing pattern of vilen. ted, how do you know that? i have a brief here that claims it. you would fire a law clerk who did that. you are the attorney general of the united states. this was not a tweet you sent. this is a memo to the federal bureau of investigation saying, go investigate parents as domestic terrorists. that is not what the memo says at all. is that what the letter says? i don t care what the letter says. you said it was the basis of your memo, you testified under oath the letter was the basis of your memo, now you don t care about the letter? the letter and public reports of violence and threats of violence, says nothing about domestic terrorism and parents. my memo is getting assessment the letter on its face says
protected by the first amendment? it is. okay. 15 of the 20, on the face are not violent, not threats of violence, they are parents who are unhappy. yes, when you write a memo, opening line of your memo in recent months there has been a disturbing spike in harass ment and intimidation and threats of violence. did you look up the 20 instances? as i testified, the decision to make, send the memo is for did you look up the 20 instans? i did not there is a reason, you started your career as law clerk to justice brennan, had many law clerks during the year, during your time as a judge. i was a clerk to chief justice
reports 2011 and 2015 and in the six years since the department of justice failed to provide such reports. just to come to the point, i am respectfully asking for commitment that you will provide these periodic reports to congress and review the department s policies with respect to its invoking the state secret privilege so to comply with 2009 memo that may have gone too quickly over the various actions of the department, i m referring to the 2009 memo, requires periodic reportss. in eight seconds i have left. answer to both, yes, we are reviewing that memo and if anything, we will strengthen it and intend to make periodic reports and it is not periodic
attorney general been in the chair with couple of breaks. i think we should try to wrap up if we can. request to put something in the record, wall street journal editorial titled about the domestic terrorist parents, the article notes the october 4th doj memo should be be formally rescinded. without objection. general after great deal of pressure from victims in congress, i know that you re taking another look at the department s disgusting decision not to prosecute employees for lying to government officials in the nassar investigation, do you anticipate the department will similarly expunge records of these employees like mccabe or give them get out of jail free cards as you have done so far? senators, as i said, we are
the case is that you knew full well that this is exactly the kind of thing that would happen when you issued your memo, when you involved the department of justice and resources and the f.b.i. and all of its resources and local school boards and school districts, you knew federal prosecutors would start collecting crimes they could use against parents. you knew they would advise state and local officialss these are all the ways parents might be prosecuted. you knew that was the likely outcome and that is what has happened and we re talking about parents like scott smith, behind me over my shoulder, father from loudoun county at a school board meeting forcibly restrained, arrested. why? because he went to elected school board meeting, he s a voter, to raise the fact that his daughter was assaulted, sexually assaulted in a girl s