If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere.

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

That is vaguely conspiratorial, in a networking sense. We have published their meeting notes.

The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.