Stay updated with breaking news from Tim haffee. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
senate confirmed directors, and those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. but you would not get that impression, given the way director wray s fellow republicans attacked him in his agency during a hearing today on capitol hill. when the court says the fbi misled, that s a nice way of saying they lied. how many individuals were either fbi employees, or people that the fbi made contact with, we re in the january 6th entry of the capital? i m going to make the assumption that there is more than one, more than five, more than ten. i will say this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol ungenerous six was part of some operation orchestrate by fbi sources and their agents is ludicrous. your job s re ....
The court as one of the conditions of his release, that those witnesses names could be protected and not be distributed publicly. you can only take so many precautions. there is risk inherent in this, and we maybe mentioned when i ve been on with you before, tim and i were both prosecutors for years and sometimes we would have threats against us. but prosecutors are fungible. if you get rid of one of us, there is another going to take our place. and many people who are accused of crimes understand that. extremists, it s completely different ball game. they don t seem to care about that, the extremist s threats the rhetoric, actual attacks, don t factor into the account but that won t get rid of the problem. and can i follow up on that? in the wake of these indictments, whether it s alvin bragg, whether it s the mar-a-lago case, there is a sense of perhaps the danger being neutralized, because ....
Tim said where if there are specific threats, targeted threats towards particular prosecutors, fbi agents, witnesses, that might require some sort of special security precautions. including assigning escorts, potentially even to people s homes, and potentially even installing security systems if they don t have those things. the government, if we expect the government employees, prosecutors, to do jobs that put them in risk, the government has a responsibility to try to mitigate that risk. for witnesses, all the more so. i think that that s one reason why we ve got the protective order here, whereby the government provided a list of witnesses to the defense, but on the condition as ordered by ....
Online threat just a bunch of bravado and bra she oh, and looking tough, let s say these really mean things about this woman, and when is it somebody who s actually going to get in their car and going to track you down and try to actually harm you? it is just like the issue with lone wolf terrorists, they re usually not part of a big group activity. they oftentimes act on their own. but they act on their own very much inspired by and incited by disinformation, and what now is so popular, which is victimhood. the idea of a weaponization subcommittee is because they re saying that the government is being weaponized against people, and they are the victims. victimhood gives rise to people feeling like they can engage in acts of political violence, that those would be justified. who is going to engage in those acts? that is the real thing that is difficult for our law enforcement. i still think it s worth unpacking, tim, what happened on the hill today in this assertion, that the fbi is ....
Hasn t been an outpouring. there hasn t been another january 6th style and direction against the courthouse, for example. really, that line in the washington post reporting, the nature of the threat is now different, that it is a smaller subset of individuals drilling down in a particular intense way to find individual people, to take their anger out on. that really stood out to me and mary, given your national security background, if you could explain that a little bit. that s exactly right. there s two points that i make, one is that is sort of part of the strategy of extremists right now. let s eschew these big national things that will get us all arrested, like an attack on the u.s. capitol, and let s get more decentralized and localized with our extremism, including targeting people for retribution. the second thing i would say is this is what s so hard to protect against. i myself, and i know tim, been subject to plenty of online threats. the question is, when is that ....