Ms Lee
I'd like to focus on the Department of Justice's procedures as to FISA applications when that process is conducted appropriately to begin with. Fisa surveillance application must include an affidavit from a federal law enforcement officer. Correct.
Durham
That's correct.
Ms Lee
And that affidavit must demonstrate cause to believe that the target of the surveillance is an agent of a foreign power. Is that also right?
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without speaking to the people who provided the information?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane on a Sunday, only three days after reviewing the information?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without any significant review of it's own intelligence database?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without interviewing the essential witnesses?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI open Crossfire Hurricane without using any of the standard analytical tools typically employed in evaluating intelligence?
Durham: Yes.
Gooden: Did the FBI consider the possibility that it was the target?
Durham: It didn't appear so to me from the evidence.
Gooden: Can you tell us why, and under what motivation, would a prosecutorial agency act in such a way where it willfully ignores multiple instances of exculpatory evidence throughout the course of it's investigation.
Durham: In my experience, that is not the norm. That is not how the FBI performs. In this particular case, as is reflected in the report, there appear to be persons in the FBI who were central to opening the investigation, that had rather strong views concerning then candidate Trump.