H672 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE January 29, 2018 with the Clinton campaign, maybe because Director Mueller put in place a investigation, along with U.S. Attor- they are crazy enough to think Donald policy that ran them off. ney Rod Rosenstein, and could not Trump would do something like this. It I still wonder about the victims at properly investigate his joined-at-the- is going to end up making them look the Boston Marathon bombing. Had we hip friend, Mr. Comey. bad in the end, and that would cer- had an FBI Director that was as inter- He could not properly investigate tainly affect the election if the cam- ested in seeking out radical Islamist what will be in the inspector general’s paign were crazy enough to utilize such killers as he was in having community report, but it certainly should require a totally fabricated dossier, I guess outreach with the mosque that was further investigation. He can’t do that. that would affect the election. started by a man who is now doing 23 It needs to be totally independent. I am I still have trouble getting over the years in Federal prison for supporting not talking about the godfather of one decision to tell American heroes to terrorism, if he had not been so inter- of Mr. Comey’s kids, Patrick Fitz- stand down, don’t go try to save the ested in playing patty-cake out with gerald, who conveniently got appointed lives of our Ambassador and the others his community partnership and instead after he talked John Ashcroft into there with the Ambassador. Tyrone gone to the mosque and been asking recusing himself. I am talking about Woods, Ty, was not going to have any specific questions about the older somebody totally independent. That is of it. He and the other heroes headed Tsarnaev brother after we got two no- what we need. out there to help as they could, includ- tices that he had been radicalized— Where does the DOJ go to get its rep- ing willingness to lay down their lives they never asked a question, not one, utation back? to protect other Americans, something about Tsarnaev; about what he has It is going to be a long process and it the CIA station chief, in collaboration been concentrating on, what he is read- is going to take truly independent peo- with other ‘‘U.S. intelligence commu- ing, what he is memorizing, what he is ple cleaning up the mess that has been created so that can happen. We need a nity,’’ apparently decided was not talking about, what books he has got. reputable Department of Justice and worthwhile. They didn’t know what questions to FBI, and it is high time we got one This article goes on to say: ‘‘Mr. ask because Director Mueller had seen back. McCabe’s abrupt departure is the latest to the purging of the FBI training ma- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance terials so the FBI agents didn’t know event in a highly unusual back-and- of my time. forth between the Trump administra- what questions to ask. They didn’t tion and a Federal law enforcement es- know what they were looking for in a f tablishment that is both investigating radicalized Islamist. RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION him as it works for him and cherishes The same scenario has played out The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under its independence.’’ time and again. Tsarnaev should have the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- We know that is not true. They don’t never been able to carry out that uary 3, 2017, the Chair recognizes the cherish their independence. Oh, yeah, bombing, because he came into the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. PERL- the FBI, in other levels, absolutely crosshairs of the FBI investigation. Ba- MUTTER) for 22 minutes. does. But then, at the same time, they sically, from all we can find out from Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I also cherish their good working rela- the hearings, they asked him if he was am joined today by JARED HUFFMAN tionship with other local and State law a terrorist. He said he wasn’t. They from California. And eventually, I enforcement. asked his mom if he was a terrorist. think, BRENDAN BOYLE from Philadel- This article further down said: ‘‘Mr. She said: He is a good boy. phia, the home of the new NFC cham- McCabe’s resignation also comes as the That is an encapsulation of it. But pions, is also going to join us. FBI faces fallout from thousands of they didn’t know what to ask because What we are going to talk about is: text messages between an FBI agent of Mueller. What are the Republicans afraid of? and lawyer who were involved in the Michele Bachmann and I reviewed What is it they are hiding? What is it Russia investigation, including some material that was purged. The FBI they think is going on with respect to texts harshly critical of Mr. Trump.’’ classified it so we couldn’t reveal, Mr. this investigation of the President and How about that? The lawyer working Speaker, to others publicly what was his ties to Russia? for Mr. McCabe. purged. Some of it was silly and needed It starts from the very beginning. Apparently, Mr. McCabe is racing the to be purged. This time last year, we asked the clock to retire with full benefits as the Say, for example, there were a purg- President: Are you going to turn over President himself tweeted out. I can’t ing of verses from the Koran. Why your tax returns so that people can see help but still go back to the former Di- should anything ever be purged from what is in your tax returns; whether rector of the FBI, Mr. Mueller, who set the Koran if it is part of the training you have relations with the Russians, up a personnel program that would en- materials? or who knows who? sure that the thousands and thousands You have to ask Mr. Mueller that. Every President for the last 40 or 50 of years of incredible law enforcement The FBI and the DOJ deserve better. years has turned over their tax returns. experience that was obtained by honor- We are looking forward to finding out But, of course, the President did not able, honest FBI supervisors—that what the IG report has to say, but it is turn over his tax returns and has re- they would be run off by Mr. Mueller. time for games to stop. It is time for fused to turn over his tax returns. He didn’t want those people hanging law enforcement to do their jobs at the The first thing you ask is: What is in around. Department of Justice and the FBI. there? What are you hiding? Jeff Sessions has got his hands full. It Now, what we see is a concerted ef- b 2130 was obvious that he felt like he could fort by the Republicans in the Congress He put a personal policy in place that trust those who were called career DOJ and in the White House to smear and ran off thousands of years of incredible employees. Hopefully he has learned disparage hardworking law enforce- law enforcement experience from the some of those career employees didn’t ment officers in the FBI, in the intel- FBI. have the law enforcement long in the ligence community, and the Depart- I can’t help but think that if Mr. tooth to give them the benefit of their ment of Justice, who have been tasked Mueller had not had such a policy to experience because Mueller ran them with trying to figure out whether or get rid of people that had great experi- off. They got off into an area of not Russia involved itself criminally in ence in law enforcement from the FBI, politicization of the DOJ and the FBI. our elections last year and whether or there would have been people who He can’t trust the people he would have not there is any implication of the could have gently nudged people like been able to otherwise, had the FBI not Trump campaign with respect to those Andrew McCabe or Mr. Strzok or Lisa gotten so far off track. particular efforts by the Russians. Page and would have warned them We need a second special counsel, as We need to make sure that Russia when they were getting close to the I advised the President back in June, does not hack into our elections, does edge before they got into such total and we need it now. Investigations can- not participate in a way that favors politicization of our important FBI and not be conducted by Mueller into what one party over another or one can- DOJ. But those people weren’t there Mueller did during the prior Russian didate over another. VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:57 Jan 30, 2018 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K29JA7.072 H29JAPT1 dlhill on DSK3GLQ082PROD with HOUSE January 29, 2018 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H673 These investigations started and the many of our colleagues in this body there to the President’s campaign first thing the President did was fire have taken up those same tactics and chair, who is under indictment; to Jim Comey from the FBI. Through a that same cause. That is dangerous. members of his family, who have been process, the Justice Department then One of the great things about this hauled before the special prosecutor to appoints a special prosecutor, a special country, I believe, is that it is about answer to secret meetings and other counsel, to continue this investigation.