opened with the proper predicate, sufficient pred indication by a person, mr. p mr. prestep, who was not a text person and senior to those people. third, that the confidential human source operations, while permitted by fbi policy, should cause everybody to give pause as to whether that policy is sufficient to provide accountability over decisions. well, that conclude my questioning. i want to say thank you and thank you to your staff. i am very grateful to the inspector general s office year in year out. thank you. thank you. i would yield we have all been watching and listening to the testimony of michael horowitz. we re going to take a quick
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
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 condu, the fb conducted several monitored recorded meetings between fbi confidential human sources referred to as chss and individuals affiliated with the trump campaign including a high-level campaign official who is not the subject of the investigation. we found that the chs operations received the necessary approvals under fbi policy, that an fbi assistant director, mr. pre step knew about and approved of each operation even in circumstances where what was only required was first level supervisory agent approval and that the operations were permitted under department
happened today is that horowitz explains this effort at spin on monday and says that the decision to open the investigation taken by m mr. prestep who was the head of counter intelligence, right? is that the job you held? yes. was right, it was properly predicated, it had probable cause. that all that durham was weighing in on was that the next step was something he didn t see the same way. let s watch that sound. durham tasked by attorney general barr to also investigate the origins of the russia investigation, stated, and i quote, last month we advised the i.g. that we do not agree with some of the reports conclusions as to predication and how the fbi case was opened. what s your reaction to that? um, well, i was surprised by the statement i didn t necessarily know was going to be released on monday.
the buzzfeed defamation case show how the anti-trump dossier was circulated during the 2016 election. david kramer then an aide to the late senator john mccain gave the dossier to buzzfeed news as well as a dozen reporters. he was singled out by christopher steele to lend credibility to the democrat-funded opposition research. steele admitted under oath that he tried to verify the dossier using a cnn eye report story. it was verified why glenn simpson of fusion gps. i think they felt a senior republican was better to be the recipient of this rather than a democrat because if it were a democrat, i think that the view was it that it would have been dismissed as a political attack. the fbi s former counterintelligence chief bill priestap also filed this declaration confirming the fbi got the dossier first 33 pages from mccain in december 2016. now the fbi was already receiving the memos from other sources. prestep also confirmed