He mentions Podesta in there.
And talk about stating the opposite of what you intend:
“the world expects us to stand up for the principle that every person has the right to think and write and form relationships freely — because individual freedom is the wellspring of human progress.”
The only clue here is the word “progress” which to them signals the totalitarianism that is progressivism.
I missed that! Course I am still reading it.
Filthy lies:
“What I did not do is stop these programs wholesale — not only because I felt that they made us more secure, but also because nothing in that initial review, and nothing that I have learned since, indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law or is cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citizens.”