My staff actually had a wall in our congressional office where they would put up the photographs of all the people who had submitted death threats against us. At times the FBI and the Department of Justice would investigate and charge those [who made death threats]. At times they wouldn't. It usually depended on an individual United States Attorney and how they viewed these very vicious threats. Sometimes they targeted me, sometimes they targeted my parents, sometimes they targeted my wife. (19:17–19:22)
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Asserts that the FBI and DOJ sometimes investigated and charged individuals who made death threats against him.
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