Jack Smith

And many Republicans have continued to put forth a counter-narrative around the events of January 6th.

But in his recently released testimony, Smith stood by his findings.

President Trump was, by a large measure, the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.

Smith resigned as former President Biden's tenure was coming to a close.

Katie Riddle, NPR News.

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Smith because it wants to question him about the two special counsel investigations he led.

One into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

and the other into Trump's alleged obstruction of justice and mishandling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home.

Smith had offered to testify publicly, but the committee rejected that idea.

Now, in his closed-door testimony, Smith is expected to try to correct what he views as mischaracterizations about his work as special counsel, but he will be limited in what he can say, in part because grand jury secrecy rules still apply.

Smith's appearance is part of the GOP-led committee's inquiry into Biden-era federal investigations of Donald Trump.

Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.

Sinä olet oikeassa komponit-kysymyksistä. Laitan sen takaisin ja otan sen takaisin, kun ajattelen, että se on vastaavaa. Kyllä, luulen, että järjestelmät, erityisesti kansainväliset järjestelmät, ovat vaikuttaneet meidän maailmankuhtaamme, ja luulen, että on vaikea kertoa ihmisille, kuinka paljon se vaikuttaa meille.

If you think getting rid of the people who know most about national security is going to make our country safer, you do not know anything about national security. And that's happening throughout the department. It makes me concerned. And this idea that if you didn't vote for the current person in office, you can't be trusted to be a government employee.

United States we tried that. It's called a patronage system where you got the job because of who you supported, not because you knew how to do the job, the competence part. And we know that it's rife with corruption and it's rife with incompetence. And so that makes me very concerned going forward. But in terms of

What I see now, and it goes back to the analysis that I gave you before, if you are driven to achieve certain outcomes no matter what, that's a real problem. That's not something I saw in the Department of Justice, and I think it bears mentioning. I worked in the department for years, Republican, Democrat, Republican. I was the acting US attorney in the first Trump administration in Tennessee. Nothing like what we see now.

has ever gone on. This case in New York City where the case against the mayor was dismissed in the hopes that he would support the president's political agenda. I mean, just so you know, nothing like it has ever happened that I've ever heard of. Recently we had this issue of like, I guess it was people in the Defense Department using Signal to communicate with each other

about war plans, clearly classified information. I can tell you, Andrew will tell you, there is no administration, Republican or Democrat, that does not open an investigation in that situation. Nothing. Where the lives of servicemen are put at risk? Zero. Never happens. So again, when we get to a place where

Onnistuminen on tärkeää, eikä prosessi. Viimeinen asia, jonka laittelen esiin, on tämä viimeinen prosessi vanhemman FBI-järjestäjänä. On prosessi valmistautumisesta. On prosessi valmistautumisesta, jossa on joitain evidenssejä ennen sitä, mitä tehdään. Tässä, ja taas tiedän vain sitä, mitä näen itselleni mediassa, mutta perusprosessit, apolitiikalliset prosessit, jotka analysoivat tämän, sanoivat, että ei ollut tilannetta.

prosessi ei pitäisi olla poliittinen asia. Jos puolustusryhmässä on säädöksiä siitä, miten tuoda tapauksia, niin seuraa säädöksiä. Ei voi sanoa, että haluan tämän tuloksen, joten laittaa säädöksiä ulos. Siksi näet kaiken näkemyksen, jolla olen työskennellyt eri poliittiset prosessit, koska heidät pyytävät tekemään asioita, joita he luovat väärin, ja koska he eivät ole poliittisia ihmisiä, he eivät tekevät niitä.