Comments on washington journal. Today the discussion of European Security and the challenges facing the transatlantic relationship after the crisis in ukraine. Well have that live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan 3. On wednesday, f. B. I. Director told the house judiciary retire committee that the f. B. I. Returned a database of taxpayer information mistakenly received from the i. R. S. He acknowledged that the f. B. I. Had the database for four years but said investigators did not exam it. The f. B. I. Would need a court order to legally look at the information. It is two hour and 40 minutes. Good morning the Judiciary Committee will come to order without we welcome everyone to the oversight hearing. I will begin by recognize ice to our nation and a confident you will serve honorably at the helm of the fbi. Last week marked the oneyear anniversary of the first leak of classified material by Edward Snowden a criminal betrayal of his country in arguably the most of it can the kid u. S. H
What specific steps is the fbi doing to ensure that innocent americans are not incorrectly placed on the nofly list and what reforms are being made to ensure that those who are erroneously placed on the lists are quickly removed . Thank you. I know i agree with your premise that its important to protect our liberties. I know we have an extensive process that we go through before someone can get on the list to make sure we have got it right and as you said im aware of the process to remove someone if there is a mistake or the matters and close in some fashion. I dont know enough to respond to your concern about the time lag or what improvements are needed. Could you respond to us in writing . Sure. Let me then ask about hate crime tracking. After the 9 11 attacks hate crime and violence committed against individuals in the seikh hindu and arab communities has increased. In receipt years there has been Violent Attacks across the country including the horrific massacre at the seikh temple
Thank you director for your testimony suggesting the fbi is probating the scandal of the veterans affairs. Yes. The Phoenix Office is. I would encourage you to probe that. To cds end up with of attention to be held accountable. In terms of benghazi and perpetrators at this point to find them to bring them to justice at this point . In any case all instruments are brought to bear. Render standing you dont have that Legal Authority for whoever you want to uc committed. Is that your understanding . I dont want to talk about how i approach that investigation and dont want to get anything away. That weve run into a problem that they them have the authority to respond but what happens is leading up to that . There was no congressional authorization for that. But somehow he would not have the authority to seek a reprisal attack that does not square with me to seems there would be the intervention with the weaker case especially given in 2001. The reports the fbi had noticed we starting to use
On the average to remove cleared suspects, former suspected, director comey, i think that we have to carefully balance that with our civil rights and liberties under the law. What specific steps is the fbi doing to ensure that innocent americans are not incorrectly placed on the no fly list and what reforms are being made to ensure those are erroneous replaced are quickly removed . First of all, i agree with you u. The premise its important to protect and protect our liberties. I know we have an extensive process that we go through before someone can get on the list to make sure weve got it right and as you said, im aware there is a process to remove someone. If theres a mistake or the matter has been closed, i dont know enough to respond to your concern about the time lag or what improvements are needed. Could you respond to us in writing . Sure. Well, let me then ask about hate crime tracking. After the 9 11 attacks, hate crime and violence committed against individuals in the hindu
Committee on appropriations, subcommittee on state and foreign operations. Very important in this discussion and member of the Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. Congresswoman linda sanchez, committee of ways and means and subcommittee of oversight. Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth erving on committee of oversight and government reform. We will do right by the families of the victims. Two families said dont take us down this path again. Why is this being done . We hope we can shine a light on where our focus should be preventing benghazi from ever happening again. I told a the speaker in a phone call i just had with him that im hopeful that Ranking Member cummings and the chairman can come to some better terms on how we proceed and it is with that hope and his great leadership that i present the chairman, our Ranking Member on this committee, mr. Cummings. Thank you very much, madam leader. And i, too, agree with you that we must be in pursuit of fairness and transparency, not on