Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Well get started with our hearing. I want to thank mr. Comey, james comey, the former director of the fbi for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about cross fire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So give a little brief introduction of why were here and what were trying to accomplish. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool thats been around for a very long time. For our Intelligence Community, the fbi to make sure that when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that are threatening to our National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back to the 70s. And its been used a lot. Its been used in terrorist cases when we suspect someone of being a terrorist under the foreign intelligence act. We have the Legal Authority to surveil those people. And you can get a warrant u
Youd like to make an opening statement. You may if you like. I have no opening statement. Im ready for your questions. Thank you. And ill take a little more than five minutes here but well try to plow through it. Mr. Comey, on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the top of the line, how would you rate the cross hire hurricane investigation in terms of being done thoroughly by the book and investigation the fbi should be proud of . Im not sure i could apply a number scale. But i would say in the main it was done by the book. It was appropriate and it was essential that it be done. Okay. So youre proud of it . Overall im proud of the work. There are parts of it that are concerning, which im sure well talk about. But overall im proud of the work. Okay. Sounds good. When did you first learn of the existence of the steele dossier . Sometime towards the end of september of 2016. Okay. Do you agree with mr. Horowitz that the dossier was essential to the carter page fisa warrant application
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Tips, and more information at our website. Former fbi director james comey recently testified on the republican led review of the fbis handling of the russia investigation. [gavel] graham good morning, everyone. We will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists, or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if theyre doing things that i think this legis
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