The Senate Security Council released Monday the FBI and Director Christopher Wray as part of their broad review of the origins of the Russia investigation, Fox News has learned.
Commission Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Issued the first statement as part of the panel’s review to Wray.
The statement, obtained by Fox News, claims he “produces all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
“This includes, but is not limited to, all records provided or made available to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice for their review,” the statement said, referring to DOJ Inspector Michael Horowitz’s review of abuse. in connection with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The ruling also requests “all records related to requests” to the Administration of General Services or the Office of the Inspector General for the GSA for “presidential transitional registers from November 2016 to December 2017.”
The FBI must deliver these documents to the commission by Aug. 20 at 5 p.m. ET, according to the saga.
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In a statement to Fox News, an FBI spokesman confirmed that “the FBI has received the August 6 report from President Johnson.”
“The FBI has already produced documents and information to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security that are directly responsible for this statement,” the FBI said in a statement. “As always, the FBI will continue to work on the commission’s requests, in compliance with our law enforcement and national security obligations.”
The ruling is directed at the “Federal Bureau of Investigation c / o (Care of) Christopher Wray.”
An FBI official told Fox News on Monday that the agency had already produced documents on a rolling basis to the commission and had sourced resources to do so.
In June, the commission approved approvals for statements to the FBI and other agencies for records and testimonies of Obama-era officials related to the bureau’s original investigation and the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s review. that probe.
The commission authorized interruptions to the FBI for the production of all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation – the internal code name of the Russian probe bureau, which began in July 2016.
The statements will cover all records made available to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz for his assessment of the Russian probe and suspected abuse under the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)) warrant for approval to members of to investigate the Trump campaign.
The commission has also authorized state elections to the State Department for the production of records related to meetings or communications between State Department officials or former British Intelligence Officer Christopher Steele, who is the now infamous anti- Trump dossier compiled, which served as much of the basis for the FISA warning applications to investigate former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The statements will cover documents from June 2016 to January 2017.
The commission has also given permission to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to produce all records related to the process of ‘unmasking’ U.S. individuals or entities linked ‘formally or informally’ to the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team as the Trump administration from June 2015 through January 2017.
Johnson has the ability to hand out jokes to a number of officials, including former FBI adviser James Baker, former CIA director John Brennan, former FBI director James Comey, former director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Obama chief of staff Denis McDonough , former FBI attorney Lisa Page, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, Joe Pientka, former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former FBI Director of Opposition Bill Priestap, former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, Sidney Blumenthal, and a number of other officials from the Obama era.
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Also part of the commission’s probe is the “unmasking” process, which takes place after incidents of U.S. citizen incidents being picked up in conversations with foreign officials controlled by the intelligence community. The identities of American citizens must be protected when their participation is incidental and no crime is suspected. However, officials can determine the names of U.S. citizens through a process designed to protect their rights.
In May, Johnson and sen made. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made a list publicly with Obama officials again asking to unmask the identity of “Michael Flynn,” who was then President Trump’s incoming national security adviser.
