SUMMARY:Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has published a new book that includes some stunning allegations about President Trump -- including that he is the "most prolific liar" McCabe has ever encountered, despite decades of dealing with sophisticated criminals. McCabe sits down with Judy Woodruff to discuss why FBI investigations aren't political and whether he plans to sue over his termination.
SUMMARY:The Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services paints the most detailed picture to date of the Trump administration's actions to separate immigrant families at the southern border. The report found that the government was separating children long before it announced its policy; thousands more may have been separated than previously reported. Amna Nawaz joins Judy Woodruff.
SUMMARY: The much-anticipated report on the probe of Hillary Clinton's email practices was released Thursday. It runs hundreds of pages, finds fault with the FBI, and may be fodder for Republicans and Democrats alike. While the watchdog found that political bias did not influence the probe, the report found that former Director James Comey had been “insubordinate.” Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff.
SUMMARY: Thursday’s report from the Justice Department's internal watchdog goes into detail about how the department and the F.B.I. handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation. What does it mean for the bureau’s reputation and what changes might occur in the aftermath? Judy Woodruff gets analysis from former Justice Department officials John Carlin and Thomas Dupree.
SUMMARY: The State Department's report condemning Hillary Clinton has brought the debate over her conduct as Secretary of State back to the forefront of the political landscape, and throws the race for the White House into uncharted territory. Judy Woodruff talks to Rosalind Helderman of The Washington Post about the details of the report and why Clinton's violations are worse than her predecessors'.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): We take a closer look now at the State Department's inspector general report on Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server.
Rosalind Helderman of The Washington Post has been covering this ongoing story.
Welcome back to the program, Roz Helderman.
So, first, tell us, what would you say the main findings of this report are?
ROSALIND HELDERMAN, The Washington Post: So, this was a report that looked at e-mail use by the past five secretaries of state, and it concluded that there have been systemic problems in how the State Department has gone about preserving public records over the course of the tenures of multiple secretaries of state.
However, it was particularly critical of Hillary Clinton and her use of private e-mail. It said, for instance, that, that use did, in fact, violate department policies that were put in place to ensure compliance with the Federal Records Act, public records laws.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And does it say that the rules, the guidelines were clear, should have been clear to Secretary Clinton and the people around her?
ROSALIND HELDERMAN:One of the big takeaways of the report was that the guidelines had been not as clear as they should be going back over a number of years, and that in fact the guidelines and training on those guidelines have not kept up with the way that e-mail has changed the way that we communicate.
That said, the report does specifically say that the warnings about the risks of using private e-mail for public business and the discouragement from doing so have become much more numerous and pointed and descriptive while Secretary Clinton was in office.
And so, whereas her predecessor, Secretary Colin Powell was also criticized by the report for using private e-mail, the dangers of doing so might, perhaps, have been more clear to Secretary Clinton.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, I guess what I'm what I'm trying to get at is, is there any doubt that the people around Secretary Clinton — and I guess there's no way to know what she knew — but is there any doubt that the people around her knew that they were in violation of a set of guidelines?
ROSALIND HELDERMAN:They have said that they didn't know that they were in violation.
And one interesting thing is, she and her aides have said that she wants to cooperate with all these inquiries, but, in fact, she didn't sit with an interview with the State Department's Inspector General, and a number of the top aides didn't respond to questionnaires, which makes it harder a little bit to know what they had in their minds while they were doing this.
As a Vietnam Vet I am well aware of DOD 'exaggerations,' like the Vietnam war 'body count' as a measure of success or reports leading to the first Iraq. So it's no surprise that CENTCOM discounts the negatives in the ISIS reports.
SUMMARY: A number of intelligence officers say that senior officials have been painting an overly optimistic picture of the fight against the Islamic State group. A Pentagon investigation is now underway, and the issue was the subject of a Capitol Hill hearing. Jeffrey Brown talks to Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times and retired Col. Derek Harvey, a former Army intelligence officer.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): ..... a look at a growing controversy that has gripped one part of the government’s intelligence community.
At CENTCOM, the military headquarters for U.S. forces in the Middle East, a number of intelligence officers are claiming that senior officials have been altering their analysis, painting a more optimistic assessment about the fight against the Islamic State group.
Jeffrey Brown has the story.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): The Pentagon’s Inspector General is now conducting an investigation of these allegations.
And this morning, the commander of Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, addressed this issue at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
GEN. LLOYD AUSTIN, Commander, U.S. Central Command: Because the allegations are currently under investigation, it would be premature and inappropriate for me to discuss this matter.
What I will say is, I welcome the DOD I.G.’s oversight, and once the investigation is complete, based upon the findings, you can be assured that I will take appropriate actions.
JEFFREY BROWN: But General Austin drew a sharp rebuke from Arizona Senator John McCain when he described the U.S. efforts to combat ISIS.
GEN. LLOYD AUSTIN: Fortunately, amidst all the — amidst the many challenges that exist in Iraq and Syria, we find opportunities, and we remain confident that our actions in pursuit of these opportunities will continue to produce positive results in the coming days.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), Arizona: So, everything is really going well.
GEN. LLOYD AUSTIN: No, sir, that’s not…
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: Well, then, if things aren’t going well and we have had — quote — “setbacks,” and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says it’s tactically stalemated, and you think everything is going well as — pursuing the strategy and tactics on the ground that we are, General Austin, I respectfully disagree. I respectfully, fundamentally disagree.
I am Retired U.S. Navy (22yrs) and a Vietnam Veteran. After my Navy retirement I was in the computer related industry, now retired. In 2000 I was a registered Republican and voted for George W. Bush. Six months of having Bush in the Whitehouse forced me to re-evaluate my political stance. I had always thought of myself as a Moderate Republican, but was a Republican by "default" NOT because of close examination of the GOP. Due to what has happened in America since 2000, I now consider myself a progressive, and registered as a Non-Affiliated voter.
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