John Durham testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Trending Politics posted part of his testimony on Wednesday.
This is part of that testimony:
CLINE(Representative Benjamin Lee Cline who has served as the U.S. representative for Virginia’s 6th congressional district since 2019): “FBI leadership continued the investigation even when case agents were unable to verify the evidence, correct?”
DURHAM: “That’s correct.”
CLINE: “The FBI did not interview key witnesses in Crossfire Hurricane, correct?”
DURHAM: “Correct.”
CLINE: “And individuals within the FBI abused their authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, correct?”
DURHAM: “Correct.”
This is more of that testimony from the article:
CLINE: “Right. So investigators relied on misstatements by the confidential human source ignored exculpatory statements made by Papadopoulos in submitting the FISA application to surveil Carter Page, correct?”
DURHAM: “That’s correct.”
CLINE: “Is it true that an FBI employee fabricated this evidence? Can you expand on that fabrication and the reliance to support that FISA application?”
DURHAM: “In connection with one of the agents who had come on board wanted to be certain that there was information that, was there information as to whether or not Carter Page had been a source of information to the CIA, and pressed Kevin Clinesmith, in the General Counsel’s Office of the FBI, on that point. Clinesmith got a hold of people at another government agency, intelligence agency on the issue, and that person indicated, not indicated, said that yes, in the FBI parlance, Carter Page was the source, and put that in writing. When Clinesmith talked to the agent who was saying, we want to be sure on this, was he or was he not a source, Clinesmith said, no, he said he’s not. He said, did we get that in writing? Clinesmith said yes, and they said, well, I want to see it. And then Clinesmith altered the other government agency document to reflect this, to say that Page was not a source, when he in fact was a source. That’s the gist of it.”
Notice that so far no one who is guilty of weaponizing the federal government against political opponents has gone to jail.