Russell Fry Brings Up Peter Strzok And Lisa Page During John Durham Questioning

now Mr Fry for five minutes thank you Mr chairman we are here today to provide transparency finally to the American people seven years ago the FBI launched Crossfire hurricane the less Brazen attempt to keep Donald Trump out of the White House this federal investigation funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign caused Americans to believe that then candidate Trump was colluding with Russia in order to win the 2016 presidential election Mr Durham has spent four years investigating this 480 Witnesses 6 million pages of documents 190 subpoenas and executing seven search warrants less than a month ago he completed this report um that it instigated the baseless investigation and launched a partisan attack on President Trump despite having no true justification to do this that was the FBI within three days of receiving the information from a diplomat in Australia the FBI opened a full-fledged investigation into the Trump campaign so Mr Durham let's get into this the FBI opened up Crossfire hurricane without speaking to the people who provided the initial information is that true that's correct the FBI opened Crossfire hurricane on a Sunday only three days after reviewing that information is that correct that's correct so just think about that for a moment an investigation a full investigation to a presidential campaign over a weekend Mr Durham the FBI opened Crossfire hurricane without interviewing any of the essential Witnesses is that true that's true and the FBI also opened up Crossfire hurricane without using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed to evaluate that evidence is that true that's true so think about that the FBI never talked to the people who gave them the intelligence information they never examined their own Witnesses they never interviewed the witnesses they never corroborated the dossier Mr Durham if the FBI had done these things if they had done their homework would it have found that its own Russian experts had no information about President Trump being involved with Russian leadership or Russian intelligence officials yes so then was there adequate predication for the FBI to open Crossfire hurricane as a full investigation on July 31st and my view based on our investigation that was not a legitimate basis to open as a full investigation an assessment of something that had to be looked at gather information such as interviewing the people who provided the Papadopoulos information checking their own databases the databases of other intelligence agencies and the standard kinds of things that you would do in an investigation like this Mr I think it's safe to conclude based on that report and anyone who has read it that they did not have that adequate basis as you talked about to to launch this investigation let's move on to a second really troubling aspect of of your findings from the report I gathered that key FBI leaders all the way at the top were predisposed to go after candidate Trump this bias likely affected the conduct of FBI Personnel in this investigation is that true yes can you describe that for a moment how did confirmation bias play into this confirmation bias has uh was alluded to has to do with our human tendency to um accept things that we already think are true and to reject anything else in this instance there are any number of significant red flags that were raised that were simply ignored if there's evidence that was inconsistent with the narrative um they didn't pay attention to it they didn't explore it they didn't take the logical investigative steps that should have been taken let's see how real this bias was FB FBI Deputy assistant director Peter struck drafted and approved the crossfire hurricane opening communication is that correct that's correct and in your investigation your office discovered text messages between strong and Lisa Page who was a special assistant to the FBI director McCabe expressing strong bias against candidate Trump that's true for the record let me read aloud this this was generated by by staff but this would what would look there like their text messages on August 18 2016 page Texas struck Trump's not going to become president right right and struck responded by saying no no he's not we'll stop it it's clear that there was no evidence of Russia collusion with the Trump campaign in 2016. the American people deserve the truth and I'm proud to serve on this committee to uncover these these lies that were perpetuated for far too long with that Mr chairman with my remaining 30 seconds I will yield to you see the chairman yield back we'll we'll uh we'll wait for my time we'll now recognize the gentlelady from

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Published: Thu Jun 22 2023