how much does this, for example, help you looking at that van? i feel conflicted, i ll say that. even just watching the opening segment of your show. thankfully, it s a situation where nobody got hurt. all of these packages were intercepted. they were given over to law enforcement. but we spend too much time looking at the motives and looking at this person and how they became such a troubled individual, what it was that led them to go astray. here i feel like we re almost doing the same thing. and, of course, we all want answers. but i think that the undercurrent behind all of it here is that politically people want to find someone and something to blame. and we need to obviously acknowledge that the president of the united states has certainly nurtured an
intelligence professional. here we are. glenn, were there some rules when you were at the agency? i thought back when we would run wires, title threes which would basically let you wiretap criminal organizations. not the oval office. no. there s something called tickling the wire. that means law enforcement this is a family program, glenn. law enforcement would intentionally inject information into that sort of series of phones they were surveilling. so what i thought of, the president is now being surveilled by the chinese. he doesn t seem to care. maybe the law enforcement fr mm professionalsp providedipr providing inaccurate information. it s called tickling the wire. that s why the new yorker
that s what we need. what s your counsel on that point to both of you who have been in law enforcement, been federal prosecutors? when something like this materializes, it s striking as you read this chronicle, how many people did turn a blind eye? i think it s really important. we talk all the time about the public has to come forward if they see something here. these people that are engaged in this type of violent activity, it just doesn t happen overnight. and when you start to see a change, and we ve seen this historically with past bombings, with violent shootings, somebody who is disgruntled, they start to talk in a stronger language where it s going to flip into a violent action. there s speech issues and i certainly don t condone hate speech, but there are certain issues that are constitutionally predicted from a law enforcement perspective, it s very difficult to sort out what some people might say is noise to something that is illegal. constitutionally protected
problem. if we don t lay it at the feet of the republican party, we are letting them get away. i want to ask you about the words in this document in this day and age. this is the affidavit. 12 pages long. the words are clearly different to people across this country. what does that mean for law enforcement that you have the kind of doubt we ve seen extended to something like this. let s be clear. that criminal complaint is a sworn affidavit the by an fbi agent that these are the facts that we ve found so far in this early stage of our investigation. what i m most troubled by, we ve heard people say we re in a post accuracy society. now we re moving into a post evidence society. when i see rush limbaugh say something like you know what? those stickers don t look faded enough. bill and hillary, you know, snuck out and stuck them on the and maybe obama was the getaway driver. but here is the problem. some people will buy into that. as 30 years as a prosecutor, i ve heard every defen