Andrea Mitchell on Sec. Officials Letter: These Are the People Who Usually Keep Their Heads Down

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MITCHELL: "These are career people. Judge Webster went from the federal judiciary to the FBI and then the CIA, held in such high regard, a man in his 90s, who has never spoken out like this, ever, and I’ve known him for more than three decades. So these are the people who are so unusual on that list, to re-enforce the point that it was a breaking point. And as David Ignatius was just saying, these are people who usually keep their heads down and do not enter the fray. And they said in that letter that they are not entirely comfortable with everything that has been said, with everything that John Brennan said, but they felt that the politicization of the security clearance process and the threat that that could potentially pose for current officials, which would be career ending for any of them, including Bruce Ohr, the mid-level justice official who is now under threat rhetorically from the president. That is what caused them to sign this letter."