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My latest reflections on Substack about the current FBI director, the Pentagon Papers, and what the attempt to control "leaks" tells us about the state of our democracy asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbis-p...
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The FBI's Plumbing Problem
Crackdowns on leaks and the struggle to control the truth.
![President Trump’s only public statement to date regarding the purported removals came
during an informal press briefing on January 25, 2025, when he conceded that “I don’t know [the
IGs]” but asserted that “some people thought that some were unfair, some were not doing their
job.” Compl. ¶¶8, 74; Waxman Decl. ¶3 & Ex.C. He did not identify who supposedly “thought”
these things about any IG in particular, or specify how the unidentified IGs supposedly “were not
doing their job.” Compl. ¶74; Waxman Decl. ¶3 & Ex.C. And despite the fact that presidents of
both major political parties have for decades uniformly refrained from removing IGs upon taking
office, supra p.5, President Trump falsely asserted that the immediate removals were “a very
standard thing to do,” Compl. ¶¶8, 74; Waxman Decl. ¶3 & Ex.B.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreicizt255hvz6jnkbwceabjo5gqy2mlcpx2efroczbc66zykll4jd4)
