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no bull and the aftermath.

I see a constant or increasing state of the threat.

I see a constant or increasing availability of investigative resources and I see a precipitous

drop in sophisticated investigative activity and I can't explain that because if you had

and were able to do it throughout 13, 14, 15, 16, why aren't you doing it now?

I'm Benjamin Wittes and this is the LawFair podcast October 25th, 2021.

Keith Struck is a former counterintelligence official at the FBI.

He is the author most recently of an article in LawFair entitled the Susman indictment

human source handling and the FBI's declining fies and numbers.

It's an article that makes an interesting connection between a sentence in the indictment

of Democratic lawyer Michael Susman and some data on FISA applications released by the

office of the director of national intelligence.

They may seem unconnected but Struck argues in my judgment persuasively that there may

be a deep connection between the two and he joined me in the virtual jungle studio

to talk about it.

We talked about the anomaly of the Susman indictment, we talked about how it was the tip

of a very large iceberg of investigations of officials, agents, analysts who worked

on the crossfire hurricane investigation and we talked about the shocking decrease in

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