My time in the White House was preceded by time right here in Congress as a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, where I spearheaded the investigation that exposed serious FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act abuses by members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That misconduct eroded the public trust in our FBI. The erosion of trust, as Chairman Grassley pointed out, is all too low. Today, 40% of Americans have trust in the FBI in order to get it back. (04:59–05:10)
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Asserts involvement in exposing FISA abuses by DOJ and FBI members.
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