speak to is not because their aware of the number of employees at mar-a-lago. when they begin the trial and hand over discovery, that is beforehand, but you have to give out the full witness list in advance to say here is who you can t talk to. wink, wink, the counsel now knows, be on notice, who are the people that you might be able to lean on or investigator do background investigations. one of things chris christie said at the town hall, he was a state s attorney, you don t put everything in your indictment. there is likely more that jack smith has, information he has but it is not all in there is a ton in the document, in the indictment. well contrast this from the manhattan d.a. indictment. these are very separate cases, full stop. but one of the big things is where is the rest of it. where is the idea of the underlying complaint that might elevate this in certain ways an that is bear bones compared to
teachers, school administrators, friends and acquaintances, neighbors, et cetera. yes, that would and i think that s really the key things to do here, how was this missed in the course of his initial background investigation and the granting of his clearance. so whose fault is that? who should have identified that red flag and investigated further? well, the system for running background investigations and adjudicating them, particularly the adjudication is a key thing. those are two separate steps. background investigation, which as the names implies, tries to gather up as much information about the person s background, and secondly adjudicators make a judgment about whether this
wasn t this sensitive information compartmented? why was this low level airman allowed access to this highly classified information when he didn t need it to do his job? were there background investigations done on him? reinvestigations done him? the d.o.d. track his information and intelligence he had no reason to search for. those are some of the questions we need to consider. but for me it s also about leadership. when i served overseas particularly in war zones the most there thing was taking care of your people and making sure everything was okay with them especially carrying loaded weapons as we were in war zones. in this case i wonder whether leadership was tracking on the issues this leaker had. bill: maybe it was hard to do that. snowden had an ideological disdain for the fact the u.s. government collected phone information and data from your