white house would comment further on the investigation s potential scope. like how many witnesses might be interviewed or how many agents and resources will be devoted to it, but today s developments are a major victory for committee democrats who hammered away at the lack of an fbi investigation in their questioning of kavanaugh. and the fact that there will now be an investigation by the fbi increases the chances that we will finally learn more about what kavanaugh s friend mark judge knows. judge is the man dr. blasey ford says was in the room when she says kavanaugh attempted to rape her. today judge released a signed statement saying that he would, quote, cooperate with any law enforcement agency assigned to confidentially investigate the allegations. in the same statement, judge also denied swetnick s allegation that he and kavanaugh were overly aggressive with girls, including grabbing them without their consent at parties in the 1980s. both judge and swetnick would
limited to current, credible allegations and last no longer than a week. so we don t know which allegations will be deemed credible and worthy of investigation or who makes that call. tonight neither the fbi nor the white house would comment further on the investigation s potential scope. like how many witnesses might be interviewed or how many agents and resources will be devoted to it, but today s developments are a major victory for committee democrats who hammered away at the lack of an fbi investigation in their questioning of kavanaugh. and the fact that there will now be an investigation by the fbi increases the chances that we will finally learn more about what kavanaugh s friend mark judge knows. judge is the man dr. blasey ford says was in the room when she says kavanaugh attempted to rape her. today judge released a signed statement saying that he would, quote, cooperate with any law enforcement agency assigned to confidentially investigate the
exctations. in part because we sat in this private briefing with rod rosenstein, teputy attorney general, in which he would give us nothing about the content of his communications with trump. he wouldn t even tell us in that closed door meeting about who he consulted in writing the memo that recommended comey s firing. the reason for that is he said, listen, this is all subject to a potential criminal obstruction of justice case. knowing comey, knowing how careful he normally is, he ll make a little bit of news tomorrow. i have a feeling he s going to be just as careful as rosenstein was given the potential scope of mueller s investigation. let me ask you what dan coats, former ambassador, former senator, now dni dan coats news that broke last night. how does that impact how you re looking at this entire mess, possible obstruction of justice charge against the president of
thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, director comey. with regard to 702, reauthorization, last well, in 2014, the privacy and civil liberties oversight board recommended that agencies develop mechanisms to limit the potential scope of incidental collection. under your leadership, what has the bureau done to comply with these recommendations? what we ve done is make sure that we have tightened up our training and our and making sure that nobody with unauthorized access gets to see the contents of a 702 collection. that s probably an ugly wave summarizing it. that s the gist of it. just to make sure. we re collected under 702, just to make sure that nobody gets access to it who doesn t have a need to know and hasn t been trained how to handle fisa
can comment on. okay. thank you mr. chairman. thank you. with regard to 702 reauthorization, in 2014, the oversight board recommended the agency s development mechanisms to limit the potential scope of incidental collection. under your leadership, what is video done to comply with these augmentations? what we ve done is make sure we tighten up our training and making sure that nobody gets to see the contents of a speech collection. that s a good way of summarizing it. there s a lot more beneath that, but that s the just of it. just to make sure we are collected under 702, just make sure that nobody gets access to it and doesn t have a need to know that hasn t been trained on how to handle information.