before i ask my first question, in regard to something ms. raisman raised, we haven t forgotten why these people haven t been prosecuted. it want to put in the record a letter i wrote the attorney general on july 16th to ask the justice department to reinvestigate the decision to not investigate the fbi employees who filed you and a lot of other that are not here as well. without objection. thank you very much. first of all, it s not enough just to commend you for your bravery of speaking out, but by your speaking out, you re helping not only young women, but wherever there might be the abuse that you talk about. it s very difficult, i m sure, in this public setting for you
what has the fbi learned from that? i mean, in terms of cases to at least have interviewers to sense there are certain words you better be careful with? thank you for that question. it illustrated something particularly important we have put in place. we have something called child adolescent forensic interviewers who are specially trained in the unique sensitivities of what it takes to interview people, victims, survivors of these kinds of crimes. one of the reforms we ve put in place is to make crystal clear in policy that interviews of individuals like ms. raisman should be conducted with those kinds of interviewers and they should not be conducted telephonically. they should be conducted in person wherever possible. that was true before. we ve made it more clear now and
critical reforms are being undertaken to ensure that events such as these do not occur again. let me briefly summarize the results of our investigation. in july 2015, usa gymnastics reported the sexual assault alleg allegations to the fbi field office. usa gymnastics officials described graphic information provided and informed the fbi that all three athletes were available to be interviewed. however, it wasn t until six weeks later on september 2nd that the indianapolis office interviewed ms. maroney by telephone, as you heard. and neither ms. nichols nor ms. raisman were ever interviewed by that office. it did not document or formally open an investigation or an assessment of the matter.
i understand the procedures, but it bothers me great ly, the failures by the fbi field office in indianapolis to delay the starting of the investigation of larry nassar for sexual assault for over 100 victims. everybody i don t care where they are on the political spectrum, had to be torn apart listening to the testimony of these victims this morning. i know i was. we talked about ms. raisman s testimony. she didn t have a parent or lawyer present when she was being questioned. director wray, is that you
without knowing who knew what when, we cannot identify all enables or determine whether they are still in positions of power. we just can t fix a problem we don t understand, and we can t understand the problem unless and until we have all of the facts. if we don t do all we can to get these facts, the problems we are here to address will persist and we are deluding ourselves if we think other children can be spared the institutionalized tolerance and normalization of abuse that i and so many others had to endure. i thank you for your time, your commitment and your genuine concern for those survivors who relied on the fbi to do the right thing. i welcome any questions and comments and i will answer them to the best of my ability. thank you. thank you, ms. raisman. i ve been in a lot of committee