Pam Bondi to Sen. Whitehouse: ‘Let Me Give You a Really Good Example of a Bad Lawyer Within the DoJ, a Guy Named Clinesmith Who Altered a FISA Warrant’

WHITEHOUSE: “You have said that Department of Justice prosecutors will be prosecuted in the Trump Administration. What Department of Justice prosecutors will be prosecuted and why?”
BONDI: “I said that on TV. I said prosecutors will be prosecuted to finish the quote, ‘if bad.’ Investigators will be investigated. You know, we all take an oath, senator, to uphold the law. None of us are above the law. Let me give you a really good example of a bad lawyer within the Justice Department, a guy named Clinesmith, who altered a FISA warrant, one of the most important things we can do in this country. So will everyone be held to an equal, equal, fair system of justice if I am the next attorney general? Absolutely. And no one is above the law.”
WHITEHOUSE: “Under what circumstances will you prosecute journalists for what they write?”
BONDI: “I believe in the freedom of speech. Only if anyone commits a crime. It’s pretty basic, senator, with anything, with — with any victim. And this is — this goes back to my entire career, for 18 years as a prosecutor and then 8 years as Florida’s Attorney General. You find the facts of the case, you apply the law in good faith, and you treat everyone fairly.”