edgar hoover f.b.i., back to 1971, that the f.b.i. * and not the justice department had the final wordn whether someone would be prosecuted. the republicans didn't ask the right questions lawyers should ask. they asked questions politicians would ask. the democrats were more interested in gun control and copyright problems at least coordinated their questions. what evidence was presented to the grand jury? what grand jury. a grand jury can issue seen as. the f.b.i. cannot. if there was no grand jury involved from the beginning one wonders how serious they took this case. if there was no grand jury involved and bryan pagliano wasn't going to testify in front of a grand jury, what did they give him immunity for? the republicans failed to zero in on the serious things missing in the f.b.i.'s behavior. kennedy: one more question, do you think it's odd that they didn't put hillary clinton under oath when she was questioned by the f.b.i. >> the f.b.i. does not put you under oath where he questioned by them at the tail end of their investigation. the penalty for lie together f.b.i. is the sam

f.b.i. does keep records, particularly from the j. edgar hoover days when they would keep tabs on people. not because of alleged crimes but because of their social cultural standing. those files largely are public record. although they will be redacted and you will be looking at the reductions thinking this is crazy. names this person's redacted from 1939 or something like that. but those kinds of things are public. you, when youage are interested in an historical fact to look at foiaing the f.b.i. if you get the many quicker -- than any quicker --the f.b.i. the last two times i have been involved in foia's, they have gotten faster at it, which is shocking. there are all kinds of other things. i had a wonderful colleague i worked with. she is not at the "wall street journal." we were working as investigative reporters and editors. we were going through a data set that is common for journalists to work with. it is a supplemental homicide dataset of every shooting and every death, every killing across the country. we were going through the dataset. you like to be meticulous. you go through