He also worked on numerous sensitive
counterintelligence investigations involving Russian espionage in the U.S., involving coordination between and among U.S.
"Our ability to continue carrying out our ongoing oversight and
counterintelligence investigations requires us to make our own determinations of the evidence, not rely solely on Barr's conclusions."
"I was briefed sometime at the end of July that the FBI had opened
counterintelligence investigations of four individuals to see if there was a connection between those -- any of those four and the Russian effort," Comey said Friday during a closed-door questioning, according to a transcript of the interview released Saturday.
Before that, he was a special agent for the FBI in Tucson, Arizona, covering general criminal investigations, and later in New York where he was involved with
counterintelligence investigations.
Details of federal
counterintelligence investigations are typically closely held and the cases can span years.
counterintelligence investigations, and less than 1 percent as part of a
FBI Assistant Director John Miller told the Post that the information requested in the Internet Archive NSL was "relevant to an ongoing, authorized national security investigation?' He also said NSLs "remain indispensable tools for national security investigations and permit the FBI to gather the basic building blocks for our counterterrorism and
counterintelligence investigations?"
No criminal investigation has been opened into the Dickerson case, and Dickerson's supervisor, who facilitated her criminal conduct, has been promoted to supervising Arabic language units of the FBI's counterterrorism and
counterintelligence investigations.
[the] Army management's apparent inability to answer simple questions about counterintelligence force structure, on-the-job training, and
counterintelligence investigations is troubling." (8)
Where ongoing
counterintelligence investigations or sensitive counterintelligence source operations are involved, this shared information lessens duplication of effort and possible compromise of ongoing operations.
Intelligence investigators were not to discuss ongoing foreign intelligence or foreign
counterintelligence investigations with criminal investigators.