Former White House Chief of Staff for President George W. Bush Andy Card said he hopes there is “not a deep culture problem within the FBI” when it comes to leaks and FBI political bias.
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“Andy, you just said that some aspects of the FBI Culture bother you, lately, what did you mean by that?” asked Mike Barnicle.
“Well I mean, I don’t like the… I haven’t seen the emails so I don’t know what they are, but I don’t like the perception that people were emailing back and forth about the election results, of putting their thumb on the scale or whatever it was, I just don’t like that, it doesn’t fit with the I want the FBI to do, so I’m hoping it’s not a deep culture problem within the FBI, I want America to have great confidence in the FBI, I have confidence in the FBI,” Card responded.
“But Andy, Andy, you have people inside the FBI and the CIA that were hostile to George W. Bush and were leaking non-stop, they picked him apart bit by bit over eight years. George W. Bush never turned his guns on, rhetrocial guns on the CIA despite the stream of leaks,” said Scarborough.
“Or his chief of staff,” piped Brzezinksi.
“No, look, first of all I have great respect for the work that was done in our intelligence communities including the FBI, I have great respect for the secrecy that is needed for them to do their job, and I’m upset that we are talking about leaked documents in the first place, and I think it’s absurd that we have leaked documents that we are trying to get permission to leak,” Card said
“But, it is what it is today, I don’t like that nature of culture and I want to get back to letting the intelligence community do its job without interference. They have a hard job and they are supposed to present the information that is important for the president to do his job. This is beyond investigations, just do the job,” Card continued.