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Profiting off his ties to people in power. And companies that hired him like at t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. I know the game. I understand it. So many people have come up, lobbyists. I said i dont want money from lobbyi lobbyists. The system we have is broken. A guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. It is time to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. Thats the best Case Scenario of what cohen ha...

United states intelligence community cannot protect sources from congress and that congress will out them and force the intelligence community to out them. he has also really taken a sledge hammer to the intelligence oversight system, which was built in the wake of watergate in order to prevent the intelligence community from running amok and abusing peoples civil liberties. if you dont have a functioning congressional intelligence oversight system, then what actually prevents the intelligence c...

Although, its always premature to say that about devin nunes. look, this is an extremely upsetting situation. every time you think that there is -- youve reached the low with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, you know, he finds a way to knock at you from below that. and, you know, going after information about an intelligence source is a violation of the most sacred trust that the intelligence oversight system has with the intelligence agencies. you know, if the government cannot...

Although, its always premature to say that about devin nunes. look, this is an extremely upsetting situation. every time you think that there is -- youve reached the low with the chairman of the house intelligence committee, you know, he finds a way to knock at you from below that. and, you know, going after information about an intelligence source is a violation of the most sacred trust that the intelligence oversight system has with the intelligence agencies. you know, if the government cannot...

Year. there used to be this thing called the intelligence oversight system in which congress -- not perfectly, not without political valances and sometimes partisan disputes conducted impartial oversight of the intelligence community and that has been destroyed in devin nuness attacks on the fbi and casting of aspersions on people for really doing their jobs with respect to the fisa process and blowing intelligence sources and blowing fisa targets and weve never seen anything like this since thi...

Service of what are almost certainly lies and untruths about the conduct of the intelligence community which continues to maintain it was behaving appropriately. and that is, you know, that is a moment in the history of the intelligence oversight system and it is not a happy moment, and i worry that that system cannot sustain the kind of abuse that it saw over the last week. >> it all right. i also want to ask you about your piece in "law fair," through a freedom of information about request, yo...

Back, will we be focused on what was in the memo or in all the ballyhoo that surrounded it? >> the fact of the memo is much more important than the contents of the memo. the fact of the memo represents an egregious betrayal by both the house intelligence committee majority, but also by the president of the united states of the premise of the intelligence oversight system, and the premise of the intelligence oversight system is that congress will create a secure environment for its members to con...