Mr. Strzok. The context of that quote is, as I looked at the time at the allegations, I was not certain at the time, one, if there was
any sort of illegal activity going on, the nature of that. We had yet
to determine, you know, was it going on, was it coordinated, was this
a bunch of individual opportunists acting out of their own personal
motives, and where that range of activity may lie, and not knowing that.
And, obviously, from the perspective of national security, if any
campaign has a couple of outliers who may be doing things improperly,
that's bad, but it is not nearly as bad as the prospect of a campaign
who has a coordinated effort colluding with a foreign nation. There's
a big range in there.
And that's -- it's independent of any party or any candidate.
And I can't stress that enough. My concern, my desire to work on this
wouldn't matter if it was candidate Trump or candidate Clinton or
candidate Sanders or candidate whoever. My drive, my interest in doing
this is, as a national security professional, was from the perspective
of protecting the United States.
