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Former Special Counsel John Durham will testify twice this week before congressional lawmakers, just weeks after releasing a report that found the Justice Department and FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia investigation.
Durham is first set to testify behind closed doors in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday morning, Durham will sit before the House Judiciary Committee for his first public statements and questioning.
The two sessions will give Republicans and Democrats a chance to question Durham, whose report lent weight to Republican complaints that federal government officials abused the public trust by rushing to investigate then-President Donald Trump. Durham’s report found that the Justice Department and the FBI “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law” by launching the probe.
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Former Special Counsel John Durham will face questions from Republicans and Democrats in two hearings this week on his findings about the Trump-Russia investigation. (Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)
Durham was picked in 2019 by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the FBI’s original Trump-Russia investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane.” That investigation looked into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.
But Durham found that senior FBI personnel “displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor” toward the information that they received from politically affiliated people, which he said “triggered” then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Durham found that 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…
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