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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. that's one of the lessons here that's totally unacceptable. so part of what's built in is a bunch of, as i said, double and triple even quadruple checks to make sure that doesn't 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 recommendations is reporting to state and local law enforcement as well as communications between field off...

We're putting training in place, mandatory training which has already been completed to ensure that occurred. that's 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 charge abbott made false statements to us about the steps he took in 2015 when these allegations c...

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 i'm standing. let me ask you this, director wray, i'm 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 happened tomorrow would be different? >> so there's a whole bunch of things we've done differently. ...

I think is as appropriate. that's 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, i'm happy to the whatever i can that would be appropriate. >> next question. why didn't the children's 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 didn't it follow up to ensure that the indianapolis office had referred the matter to an fbi office that had jurisdiction over the...

Assess them, because that's 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. they're the ones that made the decision, as i understand it from inspector general horowitz's 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 would defer to the justice department. >> are you personally or professional aware of any facts or c...