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Those.ening procedures, policies and oversight, different ways of making sure that we cannot have as occurred here in certain instances a single point of failure. thats one of the lessons here thats totally unacceptable. so part of whats built in is a bunch of, as i said, double and triple even quadruple checks to make sure that doesnt happen, both in terms of how the initial checks are handled and the appropriate urgency there but also in terms of communication. one of the important recommendat...

Were putting training in place, mandatory training which has already been completed to ensure that occurred. thats a partial answer to your question. >> general horowitz, did any of the agents involved in this case misrepresent any facts to you this this investigation? >> we did. we found both the person who wrote the report that ms. maroney testified about falsely testified to us about what he did in connection with that report as well as other matters that we asked him about. special agent in ...

The department not to go into the basis for deciding not to pursue prosecution, but this is on its face obvious, what these agents not only were derelict in their duty when it came to these young women, but also did their best to cover up what had happened and that is inexcusable from where im standing. let me ask you this, director wray, im going to accept your profession of real caring and i believe it is real caring about what happened in this circumstance today. what can you tell me if it ha...

I think is as appropriate. thats really a discussion between his office and the justice department. but if i can be a constructive part of that, given how strongly i feel, as i hope the committee can tell, im happy to the whatever i can that would be appropriate. >> next question. why didnt the childrens unit at headquarters play a greater supervisory or coordination role here, for example, by ensuring that the correct office at fbi handled this matter? and why didnt it follow up to ensure that ...

Assess them, because thats who needs to make the decision whether or not there will be charges brought. >> director wray, what happened next? >> as inspector general horowitz said, those were referred to the prosecutors over at the justice department. theyre the ones that made the decision, as i understand it from inspector general horowitzs report, the pl prosecutors at the justice department on two separate occasions, both in 2020 and then again in 2021, declined to prosecute. but i really wou...

Discussions about referring it to state and local authorities. >> director wray, how far did knowledge of the nassar investigation extend within the fbi headquarters in 2015? >> my understanding of the most senior individual involved, based on looking at the thorough and inspect investigation that inspector general horowitz conducted, was that the most senior individual with knowledge and responsibility was the special agent in charge in indianapolis, mr. abbott. again, i would defer to inspecto...

Information from certain people at headquarters at different stages. thats part of the problem. we have implemented changes now that go to the point that youre getting at, which is the transfers between field offices. weve built in a number of additional checks. one of those three or four additional checks weve built in now gives headquarters program management visibility to monitor so they can ensure as a second, third, fourth check, if you will, to make sure that the work is being followed up ...

Following this hearing so that we have written evidence that the fbi is going to do certain things. >> i can certainly join you in preparing a letter to the fbi, which they can respond to and put specifics and the directors signature, correct? >> yes, sir. >> i very much would appreciate that, mr. chairman. thank you very much. mr. horowitz, i am concerned that the fbis failures in this case may be a symptom, may be a symptom of a broader failure to treat cases of child sexual abuse with the ser...

Might ask? >> well, we waited for the report. you know, one of the things i want to make sure is we dont have a situation where two wrongs make a right, so we waited until we had the inspector generals independent report. we followed our disciplinary process and hes been fired. >> did he contest the firing? >> i probably cant get into that discussion here. i want to be sensitive about privacy concerns and so forth. >> mr. horowitz, has there been a recommendation that he be prosecuted? >> what h...

The failure of the employees outlined in the report do not happen again. thats a direct quote and an important promise. can you please describe the specific steps, specific steps the fbi has taken in the past two months to ensure that these failures do not happen again? >> thank you, senator feinstein for the question. so, first, as has already been mentioned, the disciplinary process has already been completed on the supervisory special agent and hes been fired. second, we have strengthened pol...