Barbara McQuade
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424 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
Barbara McQuade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is a way that it can be weaponized and a way that power can be abused.
That seems to be what is happening in the case of George Soros.
He obviously is a very powerful, wealthy individual.
He funds candidates and programs that support Democrats and progressives.
And so it's understandable why a Republican president might want to try to upend those efforts.
But one of the things that has been part of the post-Watergate norms is an FBI manual referred to
colloquially as the DIOG, which stands for Domestic Investigations Operations Guide.
And one of the provisions in that DIOG, one of the main and first provisions, is the need to have predication before you can start an investigation.
Predication means that we have some factual allegation that we've received and in good faith we are going to open an investigation.
It is a good faith allegation of a crime
or a threat to the national security.
So it would be improper, for example, for me to say, I want to look at everybody on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and I'm going to dig into their backgrounds until I find something they've done wrong.
And then I'm going to use that to prosecute them.
Instead, what you're supposed to do is...
find an allegation of a crime.
Perhaps a bank reaches out with a suspicious activity report and says, here is an irregularity in a mortgage application.
We want to share that with you for potential investigation.
That would be appropriate predication.
That recording you just played of Pam Bondi, what she alleges that George Soros is responsible for doing is being a billionaire funding campaigns to remove President Trump from power.
But
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