Special Counsel John Durham is set to testify this week before Congress in two committees led by Republicans in the House of Representatives. Durham is scheduled to discuss his findings regarding the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation by the FBI into the so-called Trump Russia collusion nonsense scandal.
In May, Durham concluded his investigation and issued a report which stated “the Justice Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities.”
Durham’s investigation uncovered “senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically-affiliated persons and entities.”
“This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel [Robert] Mueller’s investigation. In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump’s political opponents. The Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence.”
“Neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Durham reported in a direct contradiction to what Democrats have been pushing for years.
On Tuesday, Special Counsel Durham is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee and will likely answer many questions the Democrats don’t want to hear.
“The Durham Report underscores what former Chairman Devin Nunes and Republican members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have been saying for years: There were serious errors and shortcomings with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the alleged connections between the Russian government and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election,” said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio).
“The report confirms that FBI personnel repeatedly disregarded critical protections established to protect the American people from unlawful surveillance,” he said. “Such actions should never have occurred, and it is essential that Congress codifies clear guardrails that prevent future FBI abuses and restores the public’s trust in our law enforcement institutions.”
On Wednesday, Durham will testify before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss the legal ramifications of his findings.