Warrants . The concern grows out of the fact that all of the failures and the and The Information that shouldved been given and wasnt given. And the question being what was the intent . What what washa their intention . Their motivation there. And what we determined was we couldnt definitively say what the motivation was. Are these pretty smart people . Fairly welleducated . At least welleducated. I dont know if theyre smart. I dont know if were very smart to beow honest with you. I was b going to say they have law degrees, right . At least somehe of them do. So you think the woods review for people at this level of the organization. To be clear, the stuff that didnt happen on the woods review was basic stuff. Yeah. You didnt need to be a deeplyexperienced fbi agent to be able to do it the right way. Well, thats my point. So wouldnt you think that would almost be muscle p memory for people who are going through this process to know they had an obligation to go through that . They clear
foreign leaders in foreign lands. apparently, in search of evidence that contradicts the fact that russia interfered in the 2016 united states presidential election.russ to benefit trump. clearly, barr s investigation, which was launched to do the bidding of president trump, has two objectives. one, to undermine the integrity of our intelligence community. the goal, to cast doubt on the finding thatdo russia interfere in the 2016 election in order to benefit the trump campaign. and, two, to intimidate the men and women of our intelligence community. by suggesting that our national security professionalsin will fe seriousro consequences if they investigate wrongdoing on the part of this president or his operatives. so, general horowitz, i appreciate your extensive work and the work that your office has devoted to this investigation. but, in addition, you have the power and the duty to
words like spying to characterize what the fbi did under an authorized process? you know, as inspector general, i m going to stick to what we do and what we ve said and notha try and guess the motives or ideas or thoughts of anyone else out there. i don t see you jumping up and down with use of such words. let me go on. on november 21st, dr. fiona hill, the former national security council seniorfo direcr for europe and russia, warned that russia has, quote, geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. even as we speak. that s what russia is doing. she also warned congress against promoting the fictional narrative that ukraine, rather than russia, interfered in the 2016 u.s. election. these conspiracy theories, she said, clearly advance russian interests. fbi director stated on monday thatdi the fbi has no informati that would indicate that ukraine tried to interfere in the 2016
have co-sponsored it. that provision prevents me from undertaking investigations of misconduct by senior department lawyers. or actually, any department lawyers justny to be clear. t well, this is one time whei actually i think agree with senator lee in that needing to make that kind ofin change to enable you to makeki the kind o investigation that we re asking you to make. thank you, mr. chairman. i d be happy to come up and talk about it with you further. thankt you. i ll keep doing this and i ll apologize. has anyone been convicted of the crime of working with the russian government associated with the trumpng campaign? that you know of. not that i know of. well, they haven t. so i just whatever convictions have been attained got nothing to do with colluding with the russians. that s what got us here. and about what happened here. if the government is surveilling an american citizen, pursuant to
presidential election. when we talk about interfering, we re talking about the kind of systemic government-sanctioned interference with our election process that russia engaged in. and there s no way that ukraine engaged in that kind of systematic interference. so in all the documents that you reviewed, 100 witnesses. did you find10 any evidence tha contradicts fbi director ray s statement that the fbi has no information that indicates ukraine tried to interfere in the 2016 election? we didn t see any such evidence. but ieeny emphasize that was izyes, i know. but, you know what, you would think that you re looking through a million documents. fortunately, not me but the team. there might have been something there that referenced that maybe ukraine was engaging in the kind of systematic interference that russia did. i know that senators asked you about this butha i want to maket