responsibility as impossibility reaching work done at lower level. chris: then there is, the worst misconduct. in august of 2016, just two weeks into the investigation the cia tells the fbi that it actually has a relationship with carter page. that when he has these meetings with the russians, he actually goes back and tells the cia about it but you never tell the fisa court that. in fact, in 2017, an fbi lawyer doctors a document, the cia said, oh, carter page he is a source and he puts in the application, he is not a source. i take issue, i ll answer the question, one of the predications of your question, the inspector general did not find misconduct by any fbi people. he found mistakes. chris: that is not true. in the case of kevin clients smith he referred it for criminal investigation. that is not been resolved. lawyer changing email to partner on the time.
unusual. the attorney general statement in what he says is wrong. in addition he has the statement about the fbi investigation open on the thinnest of predications or thinnest of facts that s what the a. d ag guidelines permission. the guidelines were established by a republican attorney general in 2008 under president bush. those are the guidelines that the fbi has operated under since then if they don t like it, they can change that. the guidelines written in the post 911 era, to allow the fbi to open investigations on very thin information about what terrorists might be doing. they apply to counter terrorism cases and counter intelligence. he needs to be careful what he wishes for. with characteristic restraint
reauthorization and surveillance laws from the foreign surveillance act to the creation of the patriot act to the amendments of both and accommodations what we learned towards the end of the bush administration about the warrantless surveillance aspects of its intelligence collection programs that all of the spread predications by which the government can collect surveillance on american citizens, has gotten to enormously broad that common sense restrictions embodied in these laws do not appear to jive with the actions we have seen. this brings me to this question. this is a line from the washington post a story i want to know. firsthand experience in these systems and horror at their capabilities is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide power point slides about prism and supporting materials to the washington post, in