It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
Our staff not only received the reports from these agencies, they examined them. They questioned them.
Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Well, first of all, let me say that - let me remind your viewers that I am recused from this investigation, and what I said this weekend is not anything new.