On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) questioned special counsel John Durham during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the FBI’s investigation of alleged Russian collusion by the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

Moore was particularly interested in the FBI’s failure to provide exculpatory evidence to the Trump campaign and asked about the FBI continuing their collusion investigation after Mueller found insufficient evidence for probable cause.  

"What's sobering to me in connection with this investigation is that the FBI, the people who were involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, ignoring exculpatory information, discarding information that was inconsistent with the investigative narrative, with using information from the Steele dossier to establish probable cause to electronically surveil a United States citizen who happened to be a Naval Academy graduate — those things are sobering to me," said Durham.

Moore also asked Durham if it was "safe to say that the Clinton campaign colluded with the Russians to accuse Donald Trump of colluding with the Russians?"

Durham responded, "I could not phrase it that way, but what I would say is that the Clinton campaign funded the information that showed up in the Steele dossier, the Clinton campaign funded the information that was put together concerning an alleged secret communications channel between Trump and Alpha Bank which was presented to the FBI."

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