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MCCABE: “Okay. So, that‘s a great question. Let‘s start with the — with the first premise, which is that there isn‘t actually any public right to be able to see into sensitive FBI files, right? You can file a FOIA request, but there are something like nine different exceptions to FOIA. And some of them are, you know, sensitive material, investigative material needed in a prosecution, things like that. So it‘s not — it‘s — this is uncommon for people to be screaming for information from an investigative file. This investigative file likely — I have not seen it, but I — but it likely has a lot of information that should be protected. There‘s likely grand jury material in there that‘s protected by grand jury secrecy. There are — there are, I‘m sure, confidential witnesses or witnesses who were promised confidentiality, so they can‘t be exposed. There‘s information in there that might reveal it might be a violation of the Privacy Act.”