Tucker Carlson: “Can you flesh that out a little bit more? What were you told…”

“And again, I was aware of it from reading about it, but not really to the extent that you've just described. So I would love to hear the justification for that. And Can you flesh that out a little bit more? What were you told was the reason to prevent you, as a federal intelligence official running the National Counterterrorism center from looking into the murder when you had reason to look into it? Well, the way the bureaucracy works is they can just kill things in process. So initially we were cut off pretty early on from being able to access the files and then being able to send people out there.” (1:30:56–1:31:12)

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