Consensus reached after multiple days and meetings among officials. We reviewed Department Policies and concluded Assistant Director pre steps exercise of description in opening the investigation was in compliance with those policies. We also reviewed, as we detail in the report, the emails, Text Messages and other documents of those involved in that decision, particularly mr. Pre steps. We didnt find documentary or Testimonial Evidence that indicated political bias or improper motivation influencing his decision to open the investigation. While the information in the fbis possession at the time was limited, in light of the Throw Threshold established by department and fbi predication policy which, by the way, is not a legal requirement but a prudential one in the fbi and Department Policies, we found that Crossfire Hurricane was opened for an authorized
investigative purpose and with sufficient factual predication. This decision to open Crossfire Hurricane which involved the activitie
absolutely. is that spying? it s not it s illegal surveillance. it s not court authorized surveillance. whatever legal surveillance means illegal surveillance means, they did it. so all this stuff that they didn t illegally surveil trump s campaign. they did because they had no legal basis after the january 2017 data dump by the russian guy to believe that the dossier was reliable. they amounter exculpatory information in june of 2017 that would have further proven that carter page is not a russian agent and he was actually working with the cia. let me ask you very directly. do you believe carter page is or ever was an agent of the russian government trying to do harm to his country? i m going to refer to the evidence we found here, which is that if i m going to read this. thank you. they, the fbi, and at the end of these fisas, told us that
bad? absolutely. is that spying? it s illegal surveillance. it s not court authorized whatever illegal surveillance means, they did it. so all this stuff that they didn t illegally surveil trump s campaign, they did because they had no legal basis after the january 2017 data dump by the russian guy to believe that the dossier was reliable. they alter exculpatory information in june of 2017 that would have further proven that carter page is not a russian agent who was actually working with the cia. let me ask you directly, do you believe carter page was or ever was an agent of the russian government trying to do harm to his country? i m going to refer to the evidence we found here which is that thank you. they, the fbi at the end of