BREAKING NEWS: Durham testifies that the FBI ignored Hillary Clinton plan to link Trump to Russia
When asked about his findings, Durham said the FBI failed to"sufficiently scrutinize information it received" and did not"apply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns."
"Can you tell the committee what happened when you took that referral memo and shared it with one of those agents, specifically Supervisory Special Agent Number 1?" Jordan asked. Durham said the agent, Joe Pientka,"immediately became emotional, got up and left the room with his lawyer, spent some time in the hallway, and came back."
James Comey was fired from his post as FBI director on May 9, 2017, following his handling of the Clinton email probe. Durham's public testimony was part of a lengthy House hearing in which he defended his years-long investigation, saying"at no time and in no sense did we act with a purpose to further partisan or political ends."
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