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Jack Smith team secretly met ex-CIA chief John Brennan in 2023, but FBI agents left notes blank

Doesn't democracy die in darkness anymore? Nothing about the substance of the meeting was recorded in the notes even though the U.S. Attorney's Manual requires agents in important cases to confer about notetaking ahead of time, memorialize

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Jack Smith team secretly met ex-CIA chief John Brennan in 2023, but FBI agents left notes blank
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Doesn't democracy die in darkness anymore? Nothing about the substance of the meeting was recorded in the notes even though the U.S. Attorney's Manual requires agents in important cases to confer about notetaking ahead of time, memorialize that discussion and then take substantive notes of contacts with witnesses.

Smith's team did neither.

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