James Comey
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421 appearances
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11 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 12 May
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And how do we get a grip on it?
And then how do we disrupt it?
And so it requires an ability to use technical assets, to use human sources of all kinds, to think well, but also to have deep expertise.
Because you can pick up a bank robbery case file and go work the bank robbery.
Because you don't need to know how Chase works to be able to do a bank robbery.
But if you're going to defeat the threats from sophisticated adversaries, you need very deep knowledge to be effective.
Well, thank goodness for the current leadership that it's not the director's job to run these investigations.
The director's job is to choose the senior leadership of the organization, set the priorities for the organization, represent the organization to Congress, to the American people, to all kinds of other outside constituencies, and to make sure that the
that the organization is running in a way that is consistent with the objectives and that is effective.
And so the way, one of the ways in which you do that is you're constantly trying to find out, so how are we doing?
What are the key things that we're doing?
Who's doing them?
What are the problems I should know about?
You once had a boss who said, if you're going to run a chain of restaurants, you have to taste the soup occasionally to be effective.
The
You're not in the kitchen, but you ought to every so often walk in a restaurant and taste the soup.
And so a big part of the director's job is tasting the soup.
Thank goodness we don't depend upon the director to make the calls about how do we flip someone, how do we deter them.
But that director picks the people.
Well, yeah.
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