Carol Leonnig on Aaron Tapp Being Fired in Alleged Relation to the 2020 Election Investigation: ‘We’ve Lost Centuries Worth of Experience’

Wallace: “Carol Leonnig, this is your beat. This is yours as well, Mike. What are — what are we missing? This is, again, I think I’ve lost track of how many decades now of experience in fighting terrorism, in fighting America’s enemies and fighting cyber attacks, and fighting sex trafficking and fighting international drug cartels, we’re down hundreds of years of expertise at the FBI, and the silence from its former leaders is absolutely deafening.”

LEONNIG: “Nicolle, I couldn’t agree more. When Mike was talking, I was thinking about how every morning it feels like my day starts with a tipster from this place or that place telling me about another person who’s either, you know, has a bull’s eye on the back of their back or has been told that they have to resign or they’ll be fired or has been suspended. And I’m now at the point of saying we’ve lost centuries worth of experience, as I did in a New York Times essay the other day, centuries worth of experience fighting terror, fighting drug cartels, fighting publicly corrupt public officials, fighting corporate fraud, that that deprives Americans of billions of dollars a year. That’s pretty serious. Another thing that’s pretty serious is the end of fact. I mean, the — you make the — you ask the question smartly, you know, was Aaron Tapp somebody really directly involved in Arctic Frost, the investigation into whether or not there was a conspiracy to try to block the certification of the presidency, to try to overturn a free and fair election that found Americans wanted Joe Biden to be president much more than they wanted Donald Trump to be. And in reality, it doesn’t matter that Aaron Tapp signed some paperwork or was intensely involved. He was a senior official promoted multiple times, but he was recently called out for this role somehow in internal records, a role in this election fraud investigation, which was totally, factually predicated, totally legally proper. And whether he had a small hand in it, a huge hand in it, there’s nothing wrong with that investigation. It was appropriate to go forward and multiple high level and conservative-leaning FBI supervisors authorized it. And there was a reason that it targeted and focused on Republicans. The first documentation that I have reviewed of this investigation showed that there were 84 people who were Republican Party members in various swing states who had signed these certificates that were fraudulent. FBI agents wanted to know, why did you sign this thing, pretending to be an elector for your state when you were not? There’s nothing inappropriate about that.”