Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Tips, and more information at our website. Former fbi director james comey recently testified on the republican led review of the fbis handling of the russia investigation. [gavel] graham good morning, everyone. We will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists, or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that i think this legis
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you. I really appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team here with you . Would it be okay if they raised their hands, is that all right . If theyre okay with it, im okay with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what youve done for the country. Mr. Horowitz im dying to hear from you, but i bet i havent made 20 minutes of Opening Statements in a year. Im going to take a little longer to lay ow what i think is before us as a nation. Crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because i think thats what we wound up with, a crossfire in a hurricane. Theres been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. I remember reading all these headlines, lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Low level people kind of got off track. If thats what you get out of this report, you cle
Thank you all, very much. Mr. Horowitz, thank you. I really appreciate what have you done. Do you have your team here with you . I do. Would it be okay if they raise their hands, is that right . If theyre okay with it, im okay with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard. Your work product is impressive. I want to thank you all what youve done for the country. Mr. Horowitz, im dying to hear from you but i bet i havent made 20 minutes of Opening Statements in a year. Might take a little longer to lay out what i think is before us as a nation. Crossfire hurricane was probably the best name the name of an investigation is the best weve because thats what we ended up with, a crossfire and a hurricane. Theres been a lot of media reports before it was issued. I remember reading all these headlines. Lawful investigation with regularities. Everything okay. Lowlevel people kind of got off track. If thats what you get out of this report, you clearly didnt read it. If thats your takeaway that th