advance of those activities. we concluded that similar notice should be required in circumstances such as those present here. shortly after the fbi opened the crossfire hurricane investigation and conducted, the football fib conducted several consensually monitored meetings, recorded meetings between fbi confidential human sources, which refer to as chs and individuals affiliated with the trump campaign, including a high level campaign official who is not a subject of the investigation. we found that the chs operations received the necessary approvals under fbi policy, that an fbi assistant director, mr. prestep, knew about and approved of each operation even in circumstances where which was only required as first level supervisory agent approval and that the operations were permitted under department and fbi policy, because their
world s premier law enforcement agencies and significant part because of its adherence to those policies and its tradition of professionalism impartiality and non-political enforcement of the law. however, our review identified significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised, particularly the football fib s failure to adhere to its own standards and accuracy and completeness when filing applications with the foreign applications for foreign intelligence surveillance act authority. known as fisa, to surveil carter page, a u.s. person who was connected to the trump for president campaign. we determined that the decision to open crossfire hurricane was made by then fbi counter-intelligence division s assistant director and that his decision reflected a consensus
subject of, that would appear to be an abuse of power that is a very, very serious matter. so that s why so many members of congress, adam schiff, mark warner and others have expressed serious concern with what the football fib, doj and special counsel will do in response to this latest move by the president. then the russia probe is an investigation into the president 57 his campaign. can you clear up a question that came up in on editorial meeting this morning. does the president have access to the information gathered in an investigation that s focused on him and his administration? well, so, he theoretically has access to any information in the executive branch that he wants. as a normative matter, presidents don t seek to get special investigative files and i have confidence that there are
placed between mccabe and the certain obstruction of justice case. let me ask you, steve ratner, how do you think that would work? it is interesting, it puts pittsburgh kab in a difficult position if he is a party to the case and i would suspect that the obstruction case against the president and the people around the president certainly is far stronger than even the collusion case, because, well, they ve admitted obstruction in tweets and in tv interviews and from the white house podium. how exactly do you think mccabe and the football fib sorts through this? i think are you right, joe. i think the obstruction access is pretty clear, whether it rises to a legal jeopardy, we ll see. certainly the president and his actions with asking comey to go easy on flynn and asking him to fire comey, it was aware he was looking at flynn and others.
notice ae ware of any of the issues above. according to e-mail chain, mcfarlanes with aware of the phone call, reportedly writing hours before the conversation, quote, general flynn is talking to the russian ambassador this evening. well, that conversation was the same day the u.s. sanctioned russia for meddling in the u.s. election and it s the same conversation that flynn has pled guilty of lying about to the football fib. the time s attempts to reach mcfarlane were unsuccessful. to alabama, a week away from election day, roy moore received a key endorsement. the white house said they endorsed moore, because he wants someone in the senate to follow his again da. he offered his full support and told the alabama judge, go get em, roy, the washington published a report from debbie