It started to evolve and then i decided what i really love to do in journalism was investigate complex cases and that there was less market for that in the journalism world for ghost stories were getting shorter, emphasis on breaking news bricco so i decided to try to see if i could do that sort of work in the private capacity. What sort of stories did you do at the wall street journal quex. I started off with politics the early eighties and late nineties and investigating politicians for possible corruption and campaignfinance abuse, ethics in washington and government and over the years that involve two different types of Investigative Journalism with financial crime, fraud, corporate cases like enron, scandals, financial crisis and savings alone and after 9 11 started to branch out to International Criminal such as terrorism and organized crime crime. What was peters role at the journal . To make he was my editor we were stationed together in brussels which is the headquarters. A Fo
Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you. I really appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team here with you . Would it be okay if they raised their hands, is that all right . If theyre okay with it, im okay with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what youve done for the country. Mr. Horowitz im dying to hear from you, but i bet i havent made 20 minutes of Opening Statements in a year. Im going to take a little longer to lay ow what i think is before us as a nation. Crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because i think thats what we wound up with, a crossfire in a hurricane. Theres been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. I remember reading all these headlines, lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Low level people kind of got off track. If thats what you get out of this report, you cle
This is two hours. I want toen. Johnson thank all of the people who did all of this excellent work. I appreciate that. I want to thank you for your hard work and efforts preparing the report that is the main subject of our hearing. The bipartisan praise you have received is well deserved and i share the sentiments. The release of this report is an important step to answer the questions that have festered for far too long. But as the oral as this report is but as thorough as this report is, it is also narrow and many questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion that the crossfire hurricane investigation did have adequate predicate. But that inaccuracies and omissions in the fisa application and renewals call into question the integrity of that process. Yesterdays order by the presiding judge is a dramatic rebuke and underscores how serious a fisa warrant abuse is. I would argue that based on what the report reveals about early knowledge within the
We were both there for many years. They went into a downturn in the late 2000s. In the face of the internet and it started to evolved into a fulfilling job for me. I decided what i really loved to do was investigate complex cases and it was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news so i decided to try to see if i could do that work as a consultant. What kind of stories did you work on . I started out covering american politics here in washington in the late 1980s, early 90s and investigating politicians for possible corruption. Ethics in washington and over the years, got evolved into different types of investigating journalism involving financial crime, broad corporate cases, scandals, financial crisis and then over time, after 9 11, i started branching out into International Criminal matters such as terrorism and organized crime. What was peters role . Peter was my editor. We were stationed together in brussels, belgium which is the headquarters
Yesterdays daily beast story reporting the indicted ukrainian love parness has been working with the Ranking Member devin nunez on mr nunez as overseas investigations i am not aware of mr chairman i asked unanimous consent to put into the record the daily beast story harness helped rep devan nunezs investigations from yesterday 1st 2 paragraphs reading left parness and indicted associate Rudy Giuliani helped arrange meetings and calls in europe for rep devan unos in 2018 harnesses lawyer ed mcmahon told the daily beast noone has a derek harvey participated in the meetings the lawyer said which were arranged to help nunezs investigative work mcmahon didnt specify what those investigations entailed objection mr chairman you have been falsely accused throughout these proceedings by the Ranking Member as being a quote unquote fact witness. Now if this story is correct the Ranking Member may have actually been projecting and in fact he have meant he may be the fact witness if he is working