At a congressional hearing, Jack Smith says the career prosecutors and agents on his team, many of them veterans and experts in national security and corruption, were "fired illegally" simply because "they worked on the wrong case." He says it makes the country less safe and that he has never seen anything remotely like it in any Republican or Democratic administration.
The receipt
- Who
- Jack Smith
- Where
- hearing - congressional hearing scheduled by Chairman Grassley
- Original footage
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- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
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the prosecutors and agents on my team, many of them veterans, are people who had devoted themselves to public service. Many of them had expertise in investigating complex criminal matters. Those people, as I think we all know, have been fired illegally for doing their jobs. experts. And their firing is something that, in my view, makes – is unfair to them, but it makes our country less safe. These are people who stood century for us, experts in national security, experts in corruption investigations, who are simply fired because they worked on the wrong case. That has never happened in my career. I have never seen anything remotely like it in any Republican or Democratic administration.
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