Charles C.W. Cooke

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1,251 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 29 Jul

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So I'm absolutely open to the idea that Washington Post got this wrong or went too far with what information it had.

And

I think your guest made a compelling case to that effect.

But I am with Rich on the underlying problem, which is that there's no authorization here for war in the first place.

Now, that is a separate issue.

certainly would not mean that Pete Hegseth or others were engaged in war crimes or any of that.

But I do think that that matters as a backdrop just as much as the details of this particular strike.

So I'm very far from being an expert in the internal workings of the FBI.

I'm also not a great fan of the FBI.

What I do know, though, is how the US Constitution works.

And all of the criticisms that you read are irrelevant under our system of government.

I am also a critic of the January 6 pardons.

But Donald Trump is the duly elected president of the United States.

He's the head of the executive branch.

And if you cannot, as an FBI agent or any other agent of the federal government, work for the president, then you have to resign.

Likewise, Donald Trump chose Kash Patel to be in that role as the head of that agency.

If you don't like him, then you have to leave.

If you look back to the beginning of this republic, the idea that people would stay on between presidencies was absurd.

Now, over time, we've developed this professional bureaucracy.

There are good sides to that.

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