witnesses.
Mr. Comey. Yeah, ideally. You want to keep them all in separate boxes.
Mr. Gowdy. So why was this interview handled differently?
Mr. Comey. I don't remember for sure. I think a key factor was they were her lawyers, and so our ability to keep them from talking to each other was slim to none regardless and that they had been -- we had finished our evaluation of them as potential subjects. And so I think the judgment of the team was it's unusual, but it's really not something that's going to hurt our investigation.
Mr. Gowdy. Can you think of another investigation you were involved with where that happened?
Mr. Comey. No.
Mr. Gowdy. Did you interview Patrick Kennedy?
Mr. Comey. I didn't interview anybody.
Mr. Gowdy. Did the Bureau interview Patrick Kennedy?
Mr. Comey. State Department official?
Mr. Gowdy. State Department official.
Mr. Comey. I don't know. It rings some bell, but maybe I know his name from something else.
Mr. Gowdy. Did the Bureau gain an understanding of how she could have kept her emails from the time she separated from service at the State Department, but yet felt the need to delete them in March of 2015?
