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U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs ‘ee oF te Assan Attorney General Washington, DC. 20530 ‘The Honorable Lindsey Graham SEP 29 7020 Chairman, ‘Committe on the Judiciary United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Mr. Chairman: ‘This responds to your September 16, 2020 letter to the Attorney General that requested responses to several questions pertaining to your Committee's ongoing investigation Crossfire Hurricane and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications regarding Carter Page (Page). Your leter notes thatthe Page applications were signed by non-Senior Executive Service (SES) personnel atthe Department of Justice (Department) whose names have been redacted and that it was unclear whether it was the same attorney o different attomeys who signed each application. September 16, 2020 letter at 1. You letter further requests responses to certain questions by those “non-SES personnel atthe Department who signed each application in ‘writing regarding whether knowing the information contained in the Inspector General's report, especially the 17 significant errors and omissions identified by the Inspector General, they would stll have signed the Page FISA application(s) they signed.” Id ‘As you know, the Attorney General has determined that itis in the public interest to release fo Congress additional information related to these matters tothe extent consistent with national security interests and with the January 7, 2020 order ofthe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Accordingly, we are able to provide the following information in response {to your requests. Please note that this response is based on extraordinary and unique circumstances, and should not be construed as precedent setting in any regard, One non-SES Department attorney assigned tothe Offic of Intelligence (ON, National Security Division, signed the four FISA applications regarding Page. The Department has presented the questions in your leer to this non-SES Department attomey (Ol attorney), and the following inchudes responses to your questions. The OT attorney is aware from hisher review of the Department of Justice, Office ofthe Inspector General's (OIG) December 2019 report, Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects ofthe FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Anvestigation (OIG Report, that the O1G identified 17 significant errors and omissions with the Page FISA applications, The Ol attomey is also aware, from hishher review of the OIG Report, that the OIG identified approximately 50 errors in the FBI's Woods process forthe Page FISA applications. The OIG Report “identified multiple instances in which factual assertions relied ‘upon inthe first FISA application were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate ‘The Honorable Lindsey Graham Page Two documentation, based upon information the FBI had in its possession atthe time the application vas filed. We found thatthe problems we identified were primarily caused by the Crossfire Hhrricane team failing to share all relevant information with OL and, consequestly, the information was not considered by the Department decision makers wiso ultimately decided 10 support the applications.” OIG Report at vili. The OIG Report further found that “none of the inaccuracies and omissions that we identified inthe renewal applications were brought to the attention of OT before the applications were filed...We identified a least 17 significant errors or ‘omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures. ‘These errors and omissions resulted from case agents providing wrong of incomplete information to OF and filing to flag important issues for discussion.” OIG Report at ‘The O1 attomey advises that had he/she been aware ofthe significant errors and ‘omissions identified by the OIG and the errors in the Woods process, helshe would not have signed the filed Page FISA applications. ‘The OL attomey further advises that he/she is not aware ‘of any additional errors or omissions in the Page FISA applications or in the Crossfize Hurricane yn more generally that were not identified inthe OIG Report, We hope this information is helpful, Please do not hesitate to contact this office if we ‘may provide additional assistance regarding this or any other mater yn Stephen F, Boyd Assistant Attomey General ce: The Honorable Dianne Feinstein Ranking Member

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