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Thousands of pages of documentation and males and they are giving a thorough review. based on everything i have read, i do think it has been a thorough, impartial and by the book review. with that said, it is terribly important that people hear directly from witnesses and be able to weigh that credibility. again, i think that is a missed opportunity. there are multiple ways that victims can report these things. they can do it anonymously, to the d.o.d. ig. directly through the chain of command. you can do it in a way that will be fully investigated. you can do it in a way that you can just get...

In now? >> general mcchrystal gave this interview that was just devastating its indictment of mr. trump as being amoral and incompetent and dishonest. i'm sure it got under his skin. mcchrystal had been shot at a lot by real bullets. i don't think he's going to be too concerned about the president's tweet. it does underscore one thing, though. the lack of civility coming out of the white house now is almost childish. you can say a lot of thinks about mcchrystal. he had a hit piece published on him while he was in afghanistan. i think president obama had to take him out of office. later on he w...

Story, don. i've watched this for a while. i don't know exactly what is happening inside sidcom, but truthfully, rick is a great guy to answer. he's been an intelligence analyst. i've taken intelligence product from my analyst and measured not only what they say on paper, what they've done in terms of their written products, but also combined that with some other products that come from the field, the signals snalgs, the human intelligence that comes in that sometimes don't get it into the report, and you also -- the analyst res separated from what's going on on the ground, which can only be p...

I learned the hard way, you cannot trust any of the internal supposed mechanisms that are there for oversight. the chain of command, the i.g.'s office, even at the d.o.d. i.g. i found was basically trying to put a knife in my back. the whistleblower protection act does not apply to the intelligence community. they're exempt from it. most people in the intelligence community, they don't realize that. so you can't even go to the office of special counsel because they're exempt from that, too, and the merit system protection board. so even if you use the intelligence community whistleblower prote...

He did? >> oh, absolutely. i learned the hard way, you cannot trust any of the internal supposed mechanisms that are there for oversight. the chain of command, the i.g.'s office, even at the d.o.d. i.g. i found was basically trying to put a knife in my back. the whistleblower protection act does not apply to the intelligence community. they're exempt from it. most people in the intelligence community, they don't realize that. so you can't even go to the office of special counsel because they're exempt from that, too, and the merit system protection board. so even if you use the intelligence co...