Judiciary Committee Releases Key Material Related to FISA Abuse Investigation | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

April 16, 2020

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WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), today released declassified confidential human source transcripts related to the Crossfire Hurricane operation.

In addition to the transcripts, the Committee released other material related to the Committee’s investigation into Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) actions leading up to and during the Crossfire Hurricane operation, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process.

“I’m committed to being as transparent as possible about the circumstances surrounding FISA abuse. The goal is to make sure it never happens again,” said Chairman Graham.

As part of Chairman Graham’s efforts to increase transparency and accountability to the American people, these declassified documents and other material may be accessed at the following link: judiciary.senate.gov/fisa-investigation.

Today, the Committee released three categories of material.

  1. Declassified DOJ materials related to the Crossfire Hurricane operation.
  2. Timeline of correspondence sent or received by Chairman Graham and Committee activity regarding the FISA abuse investigation.
  3. Corrective actions taken by DOJ and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as a result of the FISA abuse investigation.

Declassified Department of Justice Materials Related to the Crossfire Hurricane Operation:

In response to Graham’s letters on March 7, August 29, and December 19, 2019 urging Attorney General Barr to declassify as much material as possible relating to the abuse of the FISA process targeting the Trump campaign, DOJ has produced the following documents:

Timeline of Correspondence Sent or Received by Chairman Graham and Committee Activity Regarding the FISA Abuse Investigation:

March 7, 2019

May 10, 2019

August 29, 2019

October 2, 2019

November 18, 2019

November 21, 2019

December 11, 2019

December 17, 2019

December 19, 2019

January 15, 2020

February 14, 2020

March 3, 2020

March 31, 2020

Corrective Actions Taken by the Department of Justice and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as a Result of the FISA Abuse Investigation:

During the Committee’s December 11, 2019 hearing on IG Horowitz’s report on alleged FISA abuse, Chairman Graham publicly called on the FISA court to take “corrective action”. Less than a week after Graham’s comments, the FISA court started what would become a series of orders to DOJ and FBI to reform the FISA process and examine where the system failed.

December 17, 2019

January 13, 2020

March 4, 2020

March 31, 2020

April 3, 2020


https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/04/16/2020/fisa-investigation