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Carol Leonnig

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The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Did you execute a search warrant? Did you subpoena anybody? Did you interview, testify, arrest? A kind of almost like a survey monkey survey to figure out, you know, what was your role in investigating a violent insurrection and attack on police? So all those things are happening in a string of days while Kash Patel is assuring the

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

the Democrats and the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would never be involved in any political retribution, and he's not aware of any plans to get rid of anybody. Okay, fast forward. Dick Durbin, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has multiple quote-unquote whistleblowers. We use the term carefully. Credible sources who come forward to him to say that

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

the Democrats and the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would never be involved in any political retribution, and he's not aware of any plans to get rid of anybody. Okay, fast forward. Dick Durbin, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has multiple quote-unquote whistleblowers. We use the term carefully. Credible sources who come forward to him to say that

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

the Democrats and the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would never be involved in any political retribution, and he's not aware of any plans to get rid of anybody. Okay, fast forward. Dick Durbin, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has multiple quote-unquote whistleblowers. We use the term carefully. Credible sources who come forward to him to say that

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

that those acting directors, Driscoll and Kassane, were being told at that very moment on Wednesday and Thursday, the Wednesday before the hearing and the Thursday of the hearing, that Kash Patel was the person who wanted these people gone.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

that those acting directors, Driscoll and Kassane, were being told at that very moment on Wednesday and Thursday, the Wednesday before the hearing and the Thursday of the hearing, that Kash Patel was the person who wanted these people gone.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

that those acting directors, Driscoll and Kassane, were being told at that very moment on Wednesday and Thursday, the Wednesday before the hearing and the Thursday of the hearing, that Kash Patel was the person who wanted these people gone.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

In fact, in contemporaneous notes taken by an FBI official, it says KP wants fast movement on this and that Stephen Miller had been calling- Maybe that was Kristaps Porzingis.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

In fact, in contemporaneous notes taken by an FBI official, it says KP wants fast movement on this and that Stephen Miller had been calling- Maybe that was Kristaps Porzingis.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

In fact, in contemporaneous notes taken by an FBI official, it says KP wants fast movement on this and that Stephen Miller had been calling- Maybe that was Kristaps Porzingis.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Right, right. I mean, I think what's interesting to remember about Kash Patel is that he's an interesting witness on the stand, right? He told the entire public in the middle of the Mar-a-Lago records dispute when it became news and reporters were learning that the FBI was investigating whether Donald Trump was hoarding classified records in 2022.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Right, right. I mean, I think what's interesting to remember about Kash Patel is that he's an interesting witness on the stand, right? He told the entire public in the middle of the Mar-a-Lago records dispute when it became news and reporters were learning that the FBI was investigating whether Donald Trump was hoarding classified records in 2022.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Right, right. I mean, I think what's interesting to remember about Kash Patel is that he's an interesting witness on the stand, right? He told the entire public in the middle of the Mar-a-Lago records dispute when it became news and reporters were learning that the FBI was investigating whether Donald Trump was hoarding classified records in 2022.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Kash Patel, his loyal soldier, shows up on podcasts and interviews saying, I saw Donald Trump declassify all this stuff. He has ultimate power. I saw him declassify to the fullest extent of the law all of these records, as if the Mar-a-Lago records had been declassified and that wasn't a problem. Later, he was brought before a grand jury, and that's not what he said, according to sources.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Kash Patel, his loyal soldier, shows up on podcasts and interviews saying, I saw Donald Trump declassify all this stuff. He has ultimate power. I saw him declassify to the fullest extent of the law all of these records, as if the Mar-a-Lago records had been declassified and that wasn't a problem. Later, he was brought before a grand jury, and that's not what he said, according to sources.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

Kash Patel, his loyal soldier, shows up on podcasts and interviews saying, I saw Donald Trump declassify all this stuff. He has ultimate power. I saw him declassify to the fullest extent of the law all of these records, as if the Mar-a-Lago records had been declassified and that wasn't a problem. Later, he was brought before a grand jury, and that's not what he said, according to sources.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

And in fact, testifying on Thursday last, Patel was pressed on that too and said, hey, wait a minute, I didn't say he declassified all those records. I said I saw him declassify a lot of records. So he's a wily witness, Patel.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

And in fact, testifying on Thursday last, Patel was pressed on that too and said, hey, wait a minute, I didn't say he declassified all those records. I said I saw him declassify a lot of records. So he's a wily witness, Patel.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

And in fact, testifying on Thursday last, Patel was pressed on that too and said, hey, wait a minute, I didn't say he declassified all those records. I said I saw him declassify a lot of records. So he's a wily witness, Patel.

The Bulwark Podcast
Carol Leonnig and Robert Putnam: Lies and Moral Obligations

It depends on your view. But if you counted how many times he used that favorite phrase, I can't recall as I sit here today. It's not ringing a bell. But if you gave me more information, you know,