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i want to tone things down a little bit here and first express my gratitude for the thousands of men and women who work every day on the front line with the fbi. i come from a background as a prosecutor and our local law enforcement work with the fbi every day in our local office in minnesota, and then in the senate, i ve had the privilege to work with many, many people in the fbi. and i think the inspector general he s job is incredibly important. he keeps everyone honest. but i do think this it is important for those t agents an those in law enforcement that are watching today that people understand there are people up here that understand that you are simply doing your jobs. which i think is basically some recommendations foric change wh the inspector general found in this report. so before iis start my question i think that it is important to put this discussion in context in the 2016 election which is why we are here today. it is nowe undisputed by our intelligence agen ....
warrants? the concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and the information that should ved been given and wasn t given. and the question being what was the intent? what what washa their intention? their motivation there. and what we determined was we couldn t definitively say what the motivation was. are these pretty smart people? fairly well-educated? at least well-educated. i don t know if they re smart. i don t know if we re very smart to beow honest with you. i was b going to say they have law degrees, right? at least somehe of them do. so you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. to be clear, the stuff that didn t happen on the woods review was basic stuff. yeah. you didn t need to be a deeply-experienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. well, that s my point. so wouldn t you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obl ....
Warrants? the concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and the information that should ved been given and wasn t given. and the question being what was the intent? what what washa their intention? their motivation there. and what we determined was we couldn t definitively say what the motivation was. are these pretty smart people? fairly well-educated? at least well-educated. i don t know if they re smart. i don t know if we re very smart to beow honest with you. i was b going to say they have law degrees, right? at least somehe of them do. so you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. to be clear, the stuff that didn t happen on the woods review was basic stuff. yeah. you didn t need to be a deeply-experienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. well, that s my point. so wouldn t you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligati ....
One of the most sensitive fbi investigations that was briefed to theit highest levels within e fbi. and that the fbi officials expected would eventually be subjected to close skrcrutinysc. and in our view, this was a failure of not only the operational team but also of the manage ertz and supervisors. for these reasons, we recommend that the fbi review of the performance of these employees who had the responsibility for the preparation, the woods review is where you check your work and say do we have any footnotes and can we krob brakr corroborate and take action deemed appropriate. so this means potential discipline and firing i assume. ....
Totality of all of the fact if we release a four page memo i m all for that, let s also release the pfizer application, let s release the woods review file that goes with it that backs every factual assertion in the affidavit. let s release the contents of what the pfizer warrant is gleaning during the investigation, let s see the totality of everything and then the american public, you and me and the second balcony at the state of the union, americans who deserve to hear the truth can know everything. will that happen? that will never happen and that is just being lied to because the politicians in dc, i am just sick and tired of seeing this political ball go back and forth. the american people have a right to decide on their own, i agree with you about that 100%. thank you, great to have you join us with your insight. appreciate it, have a great ....