It wasn’t that they didn’t follow them."The last bunch didn't follow the processes and procedures and conventions and norms like they should have. Since then we've put more processes and procedures and conventions and norms in place and promise to do better."
It’s that they intentionally disregarded them.
They act like this was a few innocent mistakes when it was anything but that. That’s what’s so galling about it.
They knew the Steele dossier was bullshit funded by the Clinton campaign in August of 2016, yet they intentionally withheld that information when they obtained the fisa warrants in October. That’s not a mistake caused by insufficient procedures.
This didn’t happen because the processes and procedures in place at the time weren’t enough. It happened because the people in charge at the time WANTED it to happen.