Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
I do not want to stay in Washington.
The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
There's no use to having the majority if you are going to be hamstrung by your perception of political vicissitudes.
I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.
I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.
The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.
I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.
What did Republicans get for 16 days of a government shutdown with people being hurt? We have absolutely nothing to show for it, other than a damaged brand.
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source.
You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.
I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.
There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
