The presiding justice of superior court and as us attorney who led undercover public investigations that involve wiretaps i have done this a lot and i viewed my role in those approvals as making sure the wiretap application was consistent with the criminal statute that we were trying to prosecute, that it was relevant to that. You werent an investigator, just making sure the material is in the statute. Correct. I think that probably very often took as an established fact that the fbi agent or Police Officer was telling us the truth, not customary prosecutorial practice to do an inquisition or a review of every statement made by an fbi agent or state Police Officer in preparing a warrant. If you have the slightest hint that something is wrong you definitely pursue that but the focus is more does this warrant a criminal case that we are making and that is the nature of the review at that level and you would hope the factual stuff would be sorted out before it got to the Deputy Attorney g
You start a counterintelligence investigation and the checks and balances that we need. Mr. We return now to the hearing on the fbi russia inquiry. Underlying problem, the system in the hands of a few bad people can do a lot of damage. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I assume there is no time limit. Take all the time you need. Well, i wont take a long time, but ive been reading these reports, ladies and gentlemen now, for 25 years. And i have great appreciation for this Inspector General. I just want to make those personal remarks. This is a tough arena, and as you can see, there are very tough people that are part of that arena, but to have an Inspector General who tells its as they see it and does this year after year is a saving grace, and i hope people will get this report. If i have a grievance, it is that the print is too small. I agree with that. Thank you very much. And it is heavy to carry around. But last year this Inspector General pledged to congress that he w
Subject of our hearing today the what you have received for your efforts is already deserved and to share those sentiments this is an important step to provide the answers to many questions that have festered for far too long. That the scope is narrow and most non more important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the inclusion the hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate yesterdays order by the presiding judge is a dramatic rebuke how serious those are. And then to ask more fundamental questions at what point should that investigation collusion between russia and some campaign has been shut down . And then when officials of the first six weeks now a result in inclusion of any inculpatory information rather than shut it down or the least intrusive mesh in one methods the pfizer taps the fbi officials argued with the cia with the salacious into the body of the Intelligence Community assessment and finally the fbi investigation blooming on ballooning i
Taking questions from members of the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee taking questions from members of the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. [inaudible conversations] the hearing will come to order. Thank you to the inspector and his team to be here i know you had to raise your hand to identify yourself all those who did this excellent work. Thank you for all your hard work and efforts as the main subject of our hearing today the what you have received for your efforts is already deserved and to share those sentiments this is an important step to provide the answers to many questions that have festered for far too long. That the scope is narrow and most non more important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the inclusion the hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate yesterdays order by the presiding judge is a dramatic rebuke how serious those are. And then to ask more fundamental questions at what
This is two hours. I want toen. Johnson thank all of the people who did all of this excellent work. I appreciate that. I want to thank you for your hard work and efforts preparing the report that is the main subject of our hearing. The bipartisan praise you have received is well deserved and i share the sentiments. The release of this report is an important step to answer the questions that have festered for far too long. But as the oral as this report is but as thorough as this report is, it is also narrow and many questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion that the crossfire hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate. But that inaccuracies and omissions in the fisa application and renewals call into question the integrity of that process. Yesterdays order by the presiding judge is a dramatic rebuke and underscores how serious a fisa warrant abuse is. I would argue that based on what the report reveals about early knowledge within the