Attorney General of the United States and the director of the FBI yes and was that intelligence put then into a memorandum a referral memorandum yes and was that memorandum then given to director Comey and agent struck this who was addressed to yes did director Comey share that memorandum
With the fisa court I’m sorry did he share that memorandum with the fisa court did director Comey do that I’m not aware of that if he did did he share with it with the lawyers preparing the fisa application not to my knowledge did he share with the agents on the case working the
Crossfire hurricane case no didn’t share with the agents on the case can you tell the committee what happened when you took that referral memo and shared it with one of those agents specifically supervisory special agent number one we interviewed the first supervisor the crossfire investigation the operational person we showed him the intelligence
Information he indicated he had never seen it before uh he immediately became uh emotional I got up and left the room with his lawyer um spend some time in the hallway came back um and ticked off Whitney he was ticked off because this is something he should
Have had as an agent on the case is important information that the director of the FBI kept from the people doing the investigation the information was kept from him it’s Charles Dolan Charles stolen is a public relations person here in Washington D.C he had prior involvement professional involvement with Russian government
Representing Russian government interests he was a person that was associated with Igor danchenko he was also buddies with the clintons wasn’t he he had held positions when President Clinton was President their campaign advisory to secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign executive director of the Democrat Governors Association that’s the same Charles Dolan we’re
Talking about uh yes yeah it wasn’t also a key source for information in the dossier he provided some information that was included Carlton stop the manafort stuff in the crossfire hurricane investigation in the Mueller investigation when the FBI interviewed Mr Dolan what did he have to say
Um to my knowledge they didn’t interview Mr Dolan they didn’t interview this guy source for the dossier key information the dossier buddies with the cleanse and they didn’t talk to him no I mean we report on that because um even Christopher Steele in October 2016 identified Dolan as somebody that
Might have information I find it interesting they didn’t talk to him but there were were there agents on the case who wanted to talk to Mr Dolan Mr Durham yes what happened to analyst number one she kept pushing to talk to Mr Dolan she was ultimately turned down what happened
To her the day that she was turned down said no no you’re we’re not talking to Dolan what happened to her um at her about the same time she was assigned to a different project they moved her they said we can’t have this we can’t have that we can’t be looking
Into the Clinton’s buddy a key source for the dossier they reassigned her and then what did she do she memorialized it she entered a memo to the file because she said some point the Inspector General is one going to want to know this information I’m going to make it sure it’s recorded
Contemporaneously she put it in the file that’s I mean it’s crazy they didn’t talk to the to the key Source they kept key intelligence from the investigators this how bad this investigation was but here’s the scary part I don’t think anything has changed the day your report came out
Five weeks ago May 15th you got a letter Mr Durham addressed to you from the general counsel at the FBI Mr Jason Jones writes you this six page letter and he says not to worry everything is fine it’s all been worked out at the FBI
He even says on page two he says had the reforms implemented by current FBI leadership summarized below been in place in 2016. fairs detailed in your report never would have happened in the underlines it said this would never happen because the reforms we implemented 2019 and 2020 and then he
Says on page four one of the specific reforms he says FBI executive management has instructed investigations should be run out of the field and not from the headquarters that statement is not true five weeks ago the FBI wrote you and said everything has changed when in fact it hasn’t and a
Statement in there is absolutely false and we know it’s false because two weeks ago today we interviewed Stephen dantuano former head of the Washington field office Mr Durham and here’s what he said in his transcript head of the Washington field office when the Trump classified document investigation began he said that case
Was handled differently than I would have expected it to be than any other cases handled we learned a lot of stuff from Crossfire hurricane that headquarters should not work the investigation it’s supposed to be the field offices my concern is that the Department of Justice was not following
These principles nothing is and that’s the thing that scares me the most nothing has changed Mr Durham I’m just finished with this 60 of Americans now believe there’s a double standard at the justice department you know why they believe that because there is that has got to change and I don’t think
More training more rules is going to do it I think we have to fundamentally change the fisa process and we have to use the Appropriations process to limit how American tax dollars are spent at the Department of Justice I yield back gentlelady from Texas
