John Durham called by Jim Jordan to testify on his scathing report NEXT WEEK
Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary, has formally requested Special Counsel John Durham to appear before his committee next week to discuss his damning report and answer questions from lawmakers.
Jordan, R-Ohio, confirmed to DailyMail.com that Durham had been asked to appear before his committee on Capitol Hill next Thursday, May 25 at 9:00 a.m. ET. The chairman sent a letter to the special prosecutor on Monday evening.
Earlier Monday, Special Counsel John Durham released a report in which he concluded the FBI did not have enough “factual evidence” to investigate Trump-Russia conspiracy allegations.
Durham’s report, which runs to more than 300 pages, revealed the Justice Department and the FBI “did not live up to their mission of strict adherence to the law” at the time launch of the Trump-Russia probe.
The special counsel on Friday delivered the report on his four-year investigation, which has cost more than $6 million in taxpayers’ money, to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Special Counsel John Durham released his long-awaited report on Monday
The attorney general provided a copy on Monday to top members of Congress, including Senate President Dick Durbin, ranking member Lindsey Graham, House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan, who is investigating the FBI’s political “weaponization,” and ranking member Jerry Nadler.
Durham writes in the report, “Based on the evidence gathered in the many extensive and costly federal investigations of these cases, including the immediate investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have had any factual evidence of conspiracy in their property at the start of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
The FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane was “based on raw, unanalyzed and unconfirmed information,” Durham states.
Crossfire Hurricane was the internal code name for an FBI investigation that began in 2016 to investigate possible links between the then Trump campaign and Russia. However, it has since been revealed that the entire basis for the investigation was based on false information.
Special counsel John Durham was appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate misconduct related to the Crossfire Hurricane probe.
The document further elaborates on the FBI’s many missteps in the initial opening of the investigation, which was based on an unscreened file of British spy Christopher Steele.
The report contains blistering language saying that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications opened by the FBI as part of Crossfire Hurricane were not made out of a mission of “strict adherence to the law.”
FBI personnel working on the FISA applications “displayed, at best, an arrogant attitude toward accuracy and completeness” and “ignored key requirements” on multiple occasions, Durham says.
He says the evidence is that the FBI officials “did not really believe there was probable reason to believe that the target was knowingly involved in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power.”
The FBI responded to the report in a statement Monday, saying that “corrective actions” have now been taken that would have prevented “missteps in 2016.”
“The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham investigated was the reason the current FBI leadership has already taken dozens of corrective actions, which have been in effect for some time now,” the FBI told DailyMail.com.
If those reforms had taken place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been avoided. This report underscores the importance of ensuring that the FBI continues to do its job with the rigor, objectivity and professionalism that the American people deserve and rightly expect.”
Special counsel John Durham was appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate misconduct related to the Crossfire Hurricane probe
Special Counsel Durham handed Congress Monday the report on his four-year investigation that cost more than $6 million in taxpayers’ money
The FBI was led by former Director James Comey and former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe at the time of Crossfire Hurricane’s opening.
While the report does not recommend “wholesale changes” to Justice Department guidelines or policies, it says there is an “ongoing need” for the agencies to acknowledge the lack of “analytical rigor” and apparent “confirmation bias.”
Former President Trump celebrated the report’s findings Monday afternoon in a post on his Truth Social account.
‘WOW! After extensive investigation, Special Counsel John Durham concludes that the FBI should never have launched the Trump-Russia probe!”
“In other words, the American public was scammed, just as it is now being scammed by those who don’t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA!” continued the former president.
Trump had repeatedly railed about the Russia investigation, portraying it as a “witch hunt” over the years.