Tom (Retired FBI Agent)

And I talked to my chain of command about that being perhaps not something I should be involved in, just

It wasn't so much that my feelings were so strong that I couldn't be fair, but to anyone on the outside, it might not look right, understandably.

And I didn't have to work that.

I was excused from that assignment.

So there are times when someone might say, hey, I really shouldn't be part of this.

There was an FBI executive who'd had extremely partisan conversations with another employee, Peter Strzok.

about Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign, when Robert Mueller learned of those exchanges, he removed Strzok from that investigation properly.

Because again, even if the individual could conceivably be impartial, such strongly held views that had been...

made known to former Director Mueller, it just was a bad look and a potential hazard.

And so he shouldn't have been involved in that case.

And he was shortly removed from it.

Well, I'll offer two things.

I'll offer one from a personal standpoint.

Obviously, your viewers don't know me personally, don't know whether I'm a trustworthy person or worthy of their trust.

But

just sharing my personal experience of being part of that organization, working, as I said, in the FBI during tumultuous times.

I was an agent when Bill Clinton was being impeached all the way up through the first Trump term.

My personal experience

I did not observe agents or managers conducting themselves in a way with a political agenda or with a political goal.

And that may be hard for some viewers to accept if they've heard relentlessly from people and maybe people that they believe in