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>> that's a good question. >> what you mean it's a good question? how do you justify it? >> i can't come as i sit here. >> was a quaint investigation named operation midyear because it needed to be finished before the democratic national convention? if so, why the artificial deadline? if not, why was it the name? >> certainly not. there is an art and a science to how we come up the code names for the cases. they assure me of son randomly, sometimes i see ones that make me smile, i'm not sure. i can assure you that it was called midyear exam was the name of the case. i can assure you the name w...

You justify that? >> yeah, that's a good question. >> what do you mean it's a good question. >> how do you justify it. >> i can't as i sit here. >> ye gods. was the clinton investigation named operation midyear because it needed to be finished before the democratic national convention? if so, why the artificial deadline? if not, why was that the name? >> certainly not because it had to be finished by a particular date. there's an art and a science to how we come up with code names for cases. they assure me it's done randomly. sometimes i see ones that make me smile. i'm not sure. i can assure ...

Do you justify that? >> that's a good question. >> what do you mean, it's good question? how do you justify snit >> it's a good question. i can't as i sit here. >> eee gads. was the clinton investigation named operation mid year because it needed to be finished before the democratic national convention? if so, why the artificial deadline. if not, why was that the name? >> certainly not because it had to be finished by a particular date. there's an art and a science to how we come up with code names for cases. they assure me it's done randomly. sometimes i see some that make me smile. but it wa...

And people like the general never get that, and if you don't have power you go to jail for seven years, and if you are a powerful and important person in washington like david petraeus, you don't spend a single second in prison and that's the injustice president obama just corrected. >> look who he represents, edward snowden. >> to his points, think about the fact chelsea manning already served seven years? >> two issues, here. petraeus did commit a crime and he was punished -- >> was he punished? he was punished with probation. >> probation and a fine. but that didn't rise to the level of tre...

Sensitive, top secret code names and agents in the field he gave away, way more sensitive and way higher level of a secrecy than anything chelsea manning leaked, so please be honest and factual. >> the major general is not trying to be dishonest, but it's true, petraeus gave top-secret information which was a higher level than what chelsea manning did. >> what manning gave away was information on ongoing operations in afghanistan and iraq, and the names or the inferences through code names of the people that he gave away were put at physical risk. what dave gave away, which was illegal for whi...