Andrew Weissmann

I mean, we're busy bombing all sorts of boats in the Caribbean where there's significant pushback by lawyers outside of the government in international countries that don't want to give intelligence to the United States because they think it's illegal, what our government is doing.

And if you get rid of impartial, sophisticated, experienced people, part of it is because you do not want that impartial answer.

which is it's against domestic law and international law.

I mean, to me, pliability seems to be the number one criteria here.

But CEG, Lindsay Halligan, to get back to where we started, I mean, that just seems to be the number one thing that you're looking for.

Because at the very least, I think nobody has been arguing, well, we're picking the very best people for the job.

Yes.

So just remember, a lot of foreign governments and the United States are sort of constantly spying on each other.

We would be doing everything we can to capture communications with Putin.

And I'm just talking prospectively.

I'm not talking about anything I would or would not have done previously.

So, you know, that would be something that was in the government's interest is to find everything that that anyone who is communicating with Putin or senior people around him.

So even if you were not targeting Witkoff himself, you might pick this up in that capacity.

Right.

So that's a way of saying that you would get this without actually saying, oh, no, we targeted an American person.

Exactly.

The interesting part to me is the leak of that.

Right.

And, you know, just remember when the plan came out that was like, oh, Ukraine, here's the quote unquote peace plan.

And by the way, which is where you give up everything.