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Anderson said it “typically would not have been the case” that people such as McCabe and Yates would sign off on a FISA application before she did. "That part of it was unusual, and so I didn't consider my review at that point in the process to be substantive in nature," Anderson said. "In other words, there were smart lawyers, high-level people on both sides of the street who had reviewed and signed off on the application, the details of the application. And so I was simply signaling, yes, this package is ready to go forward." Anderson said the seal of approval from such high-ranking FBI and DOJ officials meant that her signature on the FISA application was mostly perfunctory.

If I were just perfunctory, you'd only be required to stamp it or check a box. Sigs are required where accountability is critical, such as where the rights of others are at stake. If your superiors' signatures aren't enough to make it legal by themselves, then their sigs should not be enough to persuade you to blindly sign off.

If this were truly unusual, who among us would not be more curious than "usual"- and given the sensitivity and timing, who among us would not be more acutely aware of the need to be very careful about covering all the bases before signing anything "unusual?"

Either it wasn't unusual due to poor management and she did it out of habit ... Or it was unusual, and she decided her allegiance was to her superiors instead of doing her job as a public servant with an eye out for the rights of the citizen ... either way she should expect to be held accountable.