Tommy Vitor

Here's what worries me about this, right?

Yes, she has no operational authority in an FBI operation.

Like, the only thread that she could cling to is that not only the DNI is ahead of the intelligence community, but that is not meant to be supervising law enforcement operations by the FBI.

That's meant to—the domestic intelligence gathering part of the FBI kind of goes into a pool of information that the DNI draws from.

I worry about this.

The way these things could connect is—

the craziest theories about the 2020 election involves foreign interference, right?

Like Venezuela or whoever, Iran or other countries.

Why would this matter and why would this be connected to Georgia?

Because if she wants to spin some web of conspiracy theory that there's this kind of ongoing foreign threat to the integrity of our elections, ironic that the Republicans now care about that given how they've dealt with Russia, right?

That could be a potential pretense to federalize the conduct of elections in this country.

So elections are held by states.

They're the ones who put on the voting.

They're the ones who count the votes.

Trump hates that.

I didn't realize it was on Blockhead Bongino's podcast.

He's back.

If they're looking for a pretext to cross the final third rail, they've already crossed so many others, of trying to nationalize elections so states can't actually carry out the elections, but a bunch of Trump flunkies can, Tulsi could deliver that to Trump by saying, oh, you know, we're finding all this evidence of the Venezuelan conspiracy.

So this looks kind of Keystone Cops, but that's the truly scary possibility, is that this is like part of that plan.

Yeah.