TESTIMONY.
>> THANK YOU.
>> SENATOR CRUZ.
>> THANK YOU MR. CHAIRMAN.
I WANT TO START BY TAKING THE
OPPORTUNITY FOR AN THANK YOU AND
THE MEMBERS OF YOUR TEAM, THE
WORK YOU HAVE DONE IN THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE IS
INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
READING THIS REPORT, THIS IS A
435 PAGE REPORT THAT LAYS OUT
WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER TO BE A
STUNNING INDICTMENT OF THE FBI
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
OF A PATTERN OF ABUSE OF POWER.
AND I WILL SAY, BOTH THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE
FBI FOR DECADES HAVE HAD A GREAT
MANY HONORABLE PRINCIPLED
PROFESSIONALS WITH THE FIDELITY
FOR THE RULE OF LAW.
AND THIS INDICTMENT, AND THAT
EXPECTS ME TO BE NONPARTISAN AND
FAITHFUL TO THE LAW AND IT
SHOULD MAKE THEM ANGRY AS WELL.
THE PRESS HAS FOCUSED ON YOUR
SPECIFIC CONCLUSION THAT YOU DID
NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF POLITICAL
BIAS.
THAT'S A JUDGMENT YOU HAVE AND I
DISAGREE WITH THAT JUDGMENT.
BUT I THINK THAT JUDGMENT IS IN
MANY WAYS THE LEAST SIGNIFICANT
COMPONENT OF THIS REPORT.
I THINK THE FACTS THAT, THEN
PEOPLE COULD DRAW THE INFLUENCE
AS TO WHY THAT PATTERN OF ABUSE
OCCURS.
>> DO YOU AGREE WITH WHAT HE
JUST SAID?
>> I THINK THE PURPOSE OF THIS
REPORT IS TO LAY OUT THE FACTS
FOR THE PUBLIC AND EVERYBODY CAN
DEBATE AND DECIDE WHAT THEY
THINK OF THIS INFORMATION.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.
>> SO THIS 434 PAGE REPORT
OUTLINES 17 MAJOR ERRORS AND
MISSTATEMENTS.
THAT WERE MADE BY THE FBI OR DOJ
IN SECURING THE FISA WARRANTS.
A NUMBER OF THEM ARE DEEPLY,
DEEPLY TROUBLING.
THESE ARE NOT TYPOS, THESE ARE
NOT SMALL INADVERTENT ERRORS,
THESE ARE GROTESQUE ABUSES OF
POWER.
THE PRIMARY SUB SOURCE, THE
PRIMARY SUB SOURCE THAT INDEED
THE FIRST ERROR THAT YOU NOTE IN
THE SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH
APPLICATION FOR THE FISA WARRANT
IS THE PRIMARY SUB SOURCE
REPORTING THAT RAISES SERIOUS
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OF
THE STEELE DOSSIER WHICH WE NOW
KNOW WAS A BUNCH OF MALARKEY, TO
USE A TERM THAT'S BEEN IN THE
NEWS LATELY.
AND, THAT THE FISA COURT WAS NOT
INFORMED OF THAT.
NOW LET'S GET SPECIFIC.
THE BASIS OF THE STEEL REPORT
WAS ONCE REFERRED TO IN YOUR
REPORT AS THE PRIMARY SUB
SOURCE.
THAT WAS A PRINCIPAL BASIS.
AND AT THE FBI INTERVIEWED THAT
PRIMARY SUB SOURCE NOT ONCE, NOT
TWICE, BUT THREE TIMES IN
JANUARY, MARCH, IN MAY 2017.
SO THAT'S A BASIS OF THE
DOSSIER.
WHAT DID THE PRIMARY SUB SOURCE
SAY?
THE INTERVIEW WITH THE PRIMARY
SUB SOURCE RAISED "SIGNIFICANT
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RELIABILITY
OF THE REPORTING PERIOD DOES NOT
SAY THAT PORTIONS OF IT,
PARTICULARLY OF THE MORE
SALACIOUS AND PORTIONS WERE
BASED ON "RUMOR AND SPECULATION.
IT SAYS THAT SOME OF THE BASIS
OF THAT CAME FROM CONVERSATIONS
FROM "FRIENDS OVER BEERS AND
STATEMENTS THAT WERE MADE IN
JEST."
AND THE PRIMARY SUB SOURCE ALSO
SAYS TO TAKE THE OTHER SUB
SOURCES "WITH A GRAIN OF SALT."
THE FBI HAD THAT INFORMATION,
AND THEY KNEW THAT THE BASIS OF
THIS DOSSIER WAS SAYING IT IS
UNRELIABLE.
WHAT DO THE FBI AND DOJ DO?
AND RENEWAL APPLICATION NUMBER
TWO AND NUMBER THREE, THE FDA
ADVISED THE COURT "THE FBI FOUND
THE SUB SOURCE TO BE COOPERATIVE
WITH ZERO REVISIONS AND YOU NOTE
THAT AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
MISSTATEMENT.
AND THAT IS GOING IN FRONT OF
THE COURT OF LAW, RELYING ON
FACTS THAT YOU KNOW ARE
UNRELIABLE WITHOUT ANY BASIS.
THAT WAS THE NUMBER ONE.
AT THE TWO MAJOR ERROR IN THE
APPLICATIONS WAS OMITTING
CARTER PAGE'S PRIOR
RELATIONSHIPS.
AND THAT'S A PRETTY DARN
IMPORTANT FACT.
I DON'T KNOW THIS GUY
CARTER PAGE BUT THE FACT THAT
HE'S TALKING TO RUSSIANS IS
REALLY SUSPICIOUS.
THE FACT THAT HE IS SERVING AS A
SOURCE FOR U.S. INTELLIGENCE
AGENTS IS PRETTY DARN RELEVANT,
AND YOU DON'T TELL THE COURT
THAT, YOU ARE DECEIVING THE
COURT.
BUT IT'S WORSE THAN JUST
DECEIVING THE COURT.
BECAUSE AS THE OIG REPORT
DETAILS, AND ASSISTANT
GENERAL COUNSEL AND THE FBI,
ALTERED ON EMAIL.
FABRICATED EVIDENCE.
AND READING FROM THE OIG REPORT,
SPECIFICALLY THE WORDS, "AND NOT
A SOURCE" HAVE BEEN INSERTED
INTO THE EMAIL.
AT THAT EMAIL WAS THEN SENT ON
TO THE OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE FOR
MAKING THE DECISION TO GO
FORWARD AND AS A REPORT SAID, --
LET ME READ ON PAGE 256 OF THE
REPORT.
CONSISTENT WITH THE
INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT, THE
ATTORNEY HAD ALTERED THE EMAIL
THAT HE HAD SENT TO THE
SUPERVISING AGENT WHO THEREAFTER
RELIED ON IT TO SWEAR OUT THE
FINAL APPLICATION.
A LAWYER AT THE FBI CREATES
FRAUDULENT EVIDENCE, ALTERS AN
EMAIL, AND THAT IS IN TERM USED
AS A BASIS FOR THIS ONE
STATEMENT OF THE COURT THAT THE
COURT RELIES ON.
>> YOU HAVE WORKED ON
LAW ENFORCEMENT A LONG TIME.
AS THE PATTERN OF A DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE EMPLOYEE ALTERING
EVIDENCE AND SUBMITTING
FRAUDULENT EVIDENCE THAT
ULTIMATELY GET TO THE COURT?
>> I HAVE NOT SEEN AN ALTERATION
OF AN EMAIL AND THAT'S IMPACTING
A COURT DOCUMENT LIKE THIS.
>> IN ANY ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE,
A PRIVATE CITIZEN DID THIS.
WHAT HE INSERTED WAS NOT
SLIGHTLY WRONG, IT WAS
180 DEGREES OPPOSITE OF WHAT
THEY SAID.
THE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SAID
THIS GUY IS A SOURCE AND HE
INSERTED THAT THIS GUY IS NOT A
SOURCE.
IF A PRIVATE CITIZEN
FABRICATED EVIDENCE AND REVERSED
WHAT IT SAID, IN YOUR
EXPERIENCE, WITHOUT PRIVATE
CITIZEN BE PROSECUTED FOR
FABRICATING EVIDENCE,
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, PERJURY?
>> THEY CERTAINLY WOULD BE
CONSIDERED FOR THAT IF THERE WAS
AN INTENTIONAL EFFORT TO DECEIVE
THE COURT.
ON THIS ONE, I AM GOING TO
DEFER.
AS WE NOTED HERE IN THE SENTENCE
YOU INDICATED, WE ARE REVERTED
TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE
FBI DIRECTOR FOR HANDLING.
>> MAJOR OMISSION THAT THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE
FBI DID NOT TELL THE COURT, THIS
ENTIRE OPERATION WAS FUNDED BY
THE DNC, FUNDED BY THE
HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN AD BY
DEMOCRATS.
IT WAS AN OPPO RESEARCH DONE.
AT SOME LEVEL, THIS IS THE MOST
EFFECTIVE OPPO RESEARCH DUMP IN
HISTORY BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE AND FBI WERE
PERFECTLY HAPPY TO BE HATCHET
MEN.
FOR THIS OPPO RESEARCH DUMP.
THROUGHOUT EVERY ONE OF THE
FILINGS, DOJ AND THE FBI DIDN'T
INFORM THE FISA COURT THAT THIS
WAS BEING PAID FOR BY THE DNC
AND HILLARY CLINTON CAMPAIGN, IS
THAT RIGHT?
>> IT IS NOT IN ANY OF THE FISA
APPLICATIONS.
>> IT'S NOT LIKE DOJ DIDN'T
KNOW.
ONE OF THE SENIOR DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE OFFICIALS, BRUCE OHR,
HIS WIFE WORKED AT FUSION GPS,
THE OPPO RESEARCH COMPANY BEING
PAID BY THE DNC.
AND HE BECAME THE PRINCIPAL
LIAISON WITH CHRISTOPHER STEELE
WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE AT THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THAT HE
WAS ESSENTIALLY WORKING ON
BEHALF OF THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN.
WHO AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
AND BY THE WAY, SEVERAL
DEMOCRATS, IT'S INTERESTING
SEEING DEMOCRATIC SENATORS
WANTING TO DEFEND THIS ABUSE OF
POWER.
SEVERAL SENATORS.
SENATOR FEINSTEIN SAID "THE FBI
DIDN'T PLACED SPIES IN THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN."
SENATOR LEAHY SAID SOMETHING
SIMILAR.
IT MAY BE TRUE, NOT SPIES IN THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN BUT READING FOR
YOUR REPORT AND PAGE 4 OF THE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, YOUR REPORT
SAYS THEREAFTER THE CROSS FIRE
HURRICANE TEAM USE THE INTRUSIVE
TECHNIQUES INCLUDING
CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES TO
INTERACT AND CONSENSUALLY RECORD
MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH
PAIGE AND PAPADOPOULOS BEFORE
AND AFTER THEY WERE WORKING WITH
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AS WELL AS ON
ONE OCCASION WITH A HIGH-LEVEL
TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL WHO WAS
NOT THE SUBJECT OF THE
INVESTIGATION.
THEY DIDN'T PLACE SPIES IN THE
CAMPAIGN BUT THEY SENT SPIES TO
RECORD SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE
CAMPAIGN IN THE MIDDLE OF A
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WHEN THAT
CANDIDATE WAS THE NOMINEE FOR
THE OTHER MAJOR PARTY THAT WAS
THE OPPOSING PARTY TO THE ONE IN
POWER.
IS THAT RIGHT?
>> THEY SENT CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN
SOURCES INTO DO THOSE.
>> DID ANYONE AT DOJ, WHO AT DOJ
KNEW ABOUT IT?
DID THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOW?
DID THE WHITE HOUSE NO?
>> BASED ON WHAT WE FOUND,
NOBODY HAD BEEN TOLD IN ADVANCE.
THE ONLY EVIDENCE THAT SOMEBODY
NEW WORTHY LION ATTORNEYS IN THE
NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION WHEN
THEY WERE TOLD SELECTIVE
PORTIONS OF WHAT HAD OCCURRED.
NOBODY KNEW BEFOREHAND.
NOBODY HAD BEEN BRIEFED.
FRANKLY, THAT WAS ONE OF THE
MOST CONCERNING THINGS.
NOBODY NEEDED TO BE TOLD.
>> I CAN TELL YOU FROM MY TIME
AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND
FROM MY TIME IN LAW ENFORCEMENT,
ANY RESPONSIBLE LEADER WHEN
HEARING THAT YOU'RE TALKING
ABOUT SENDING IN SPIES AND
SENDING IT A WIRETAP ON ANY
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SHOULD SAY
WHAT IN THE HILL ARE WE DOING?
THE PEOPLE UP THE CHAIN WHO ARE
SAYING WE DIDN'T KNOW, IF YOU
HAD RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP,
THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT
DECISION TO MAKE.
WHEN I WAS AT DOJ IF SOMEONE HAD
SAID LET'S TAP BILL CLINTON OR