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FBI director says Crossfire Hurricane disciplinary action delayed at John Durham's request

by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter | | March 02, 2021 07:40 PM

 

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the bureau slowed down its internal disciplinary process for the Crossfire Hurricane investigation at the request of special counsel John Durham, who is conducting a criminal inquiry into the officials tasked with scrutinizing former President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

 

Sen. John Kennedy broached the topic during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, asking Wray how many FBI employees he had referred for prosecution as a result of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 2019 critical report on the Russia investigation. After Wray said the prosecution issue was in Durham's hands, he was asked how many people he fired in response to the independent watchdog's findings.

 

“Most of the people involved in the Horowitz report are former employees. Of the ones who are current, every single one of them, even if mentioned only in passing, has been referred to our Office of Responsibility, which is our disciplinary arm,” Wray testified. “Now, that piece, and this is important, that piece of it, because we are cooperating fully with Mr. Durham’s investigation, at his request, we had slowed that process down to allow his criminal investigation to proceed. So, at the moment, that process is still underway in order to make sure that we’re being appropriately sensitive to the criminal investigation.”

 

Wray also was prompted to talk about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was a focus of Horowitz's inquiry. The inspector general’s report criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Trump 2016 campaign associate Carter Page and for the bureau's reliance on the Democratic-funded, discredited dossier by British ex-spy Christopher Steele.

 

Sen. Mike Lee asserted that the “consistent theme” he witnessed when raising concerns about FISA with FBI leaders over the years has been, “just trust us. Don’t worry. We’ve got good people, smart people, law-abiding people who are running this, and we’ve got procedural safeguards in place to prevent the type of abuse that you’re concerned about.” The Utah Republican asked Wray what actions he had taken in the wake of Horowitz’s report.

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“So first off, as you may know, we accepted all of the findings and recommendations in the inspector general’s report. I ordered at the time over 40 corrective actions that go above and beyond the inspector general’s report, and those have been implemented,” Wray said. “Those include everything from strengthening our procedures to ensure accuracy and completeness to ensure the court gets all the information it’s supposed to, changes in protocols for confidential human sources, training changes, I created a new office of internal audit that is specifically focused on FISA auditing.”

 

During prior testimony in February 2020, Wray agreed there had been at least some illegal surveillance during congressional testimony. ”I certainly think that it describes conduct that is utterly unacceptable," Wray said of Horowitz’s report, telling Congress then that the bureau had started to “claw back” information gathered through FISA warrants.

 

After Horowitz’s report was released, the FISA court issued a rare public order criticizing the FBI's handling of the Page applications as "antithetical to the heightened duty of candor." The Justice Department told the FISA court last year that at least the final two of four Page FISA warrants were “not valid."

 

Durham’s criminal inquiry has netted just one guilty plea so far, with former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith admitting to editing a CIA email in 2017 to state that Page was “not a source” for the CIA. Clinesmith, who resigned from the bureau before an internal disciplinary process was completed, was sentenced to probation, and the FISA court has ordered a review of all FISA filings handled by him.

 

Durham announced Friday that he was resigning as the U.S. attorney for Connecticut effective Sunday at midnight following President Biden asking all Senate-confirmed federal prosecutors to hand in their resignation letters, but he still remains on as special counsel as he reviews the origins and conduct of the bureau’s inquiry into Russian election meddling and allegations of collusion. Judge Merrick Garland, Biden’s pick for attorney general, has declined to promise specifically that Durham will be allowed to finish his investigation.

 

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