John Durham testified on the impact of bias on Crossfire Hurricane, contended there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, and rejected calls to defund the FBI.
Durham, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee during his first public testimony on Wednesday, released his May report revealing the FBI had no proper basis for launching the 2016 election inquiry into unfounded collusion claims, which soon transformed into special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling investigation.
Strzok authored the “opening electronic communication” for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into the Trump campaign in July 2016. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation had “sufficient factual predication.” Then-Attorney General William Barr and Durham disagreed.
In one early August 2016 exchange, just days after the Trump-Russia investigation was launched, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page told Strzok, “Trump should go f himself.” Strzok responded, “F Trump.” Two days later, Page texted, “[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Strzok replied, “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”
Durham rejected calls from some Republican quarters to defund the Justice Department and the FBI, arguing that much less drastic measures were needed to fix the bureau. On Wednesday, Durham added, “I don’t believe the Department of Justice or the FBI should be defunded. I think there maybe ought to be some changes and the like, but defunded? No.”“While I’m encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI, the problems identified in this report … are not susceptible to overnight fixes,” Durham testified on Wednesday.
Durham backed the use of an “ombudsman” to review high-profile FBI investigations but lamented, “Ultimately, I don’t know how you hold people responsible absent their integrity and that kind of overview of what the investigation is doing.”Durham’s report and testimony argued that the FBI did not have evidence of Trump-Russia collusion when Crossfire Hurricane was launched, nor did the FBI or Mueller unearth any during yearslong investigations.
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