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The Bulwark Daily · James Comey: We Can't Trust the DOJ · 12 May 2026 podcast

And the director is—

responsible for, for example, approving foreign intelligence surveillance, that the director, personal involvement by the director.

Obviously, the director is also interacting on very significant matters with the president and the National Security Council.

I'm not even sure there is a National Security Council in the Trump administration, but knowing what's going on in order to solve problems with those people or to tell them what's going on so they can do their jobs.

Now, I served under Jim Clapper and Dan Coates, and I can't imagine a reason they would ever be at a search warrant.

Or closely involved in any criminal investigative activity.

Well, the DNI is an important boss of the FBI because the FBI is a major member of the U.S.

intelligence community.

And so a big part of the FBI's budget comes through the national intelligence budget and is owned by

to use a budgetary term, by the Director of National Intelligence.

And so a big part of what we would do is make sure the Director of National Intelligence knew how we were complying with the national intelligence requirements.

Are we finding out the stuff that our government needs to know?

And so I would meet with the DNI on a regular basis to talk about budget and how we're doing against the requirements he's put out.

I guess not to talk about criminal investigations.

To my mind, it underscores the doubt that this administration has sowed.

We can't trust them.

But there are lots of good reasons that you might conduct an investigation in a national security case that bumps up against or touches or even requires you to interview a reporter.

But you can't have any confidence that this administration is doing it in a principled way, consistent with thoughtful policies.

So, yeah, every one of them is worrisome, even though they may not be.

As I said about the Senator Louise Lucas investigation, maybe it's righteous, but you can't have who could assume it's righteous given this crowd.

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