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Here ya go...ODNI Statement on Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections Start at 40:00 mark. Chairman Burr. Director Comey, let me talk about forensics for just a minute, because the FBI has the expertise there. I know there's tremendous investigative value when the FBI is actually able to conduct their own forensics review on devices that have suffered cyber intrusions and attacks. I believe there's some confusion, though, or at least some conflicting reporting as to whether the FBI requested access to the DNC's services, the Democratic Congressional Committee servers, and John Podesta's personal devices. Did the FBI request access to those devices to perform forensics on them?

Director Comey. Yes, we did.

Chairman Burr. Would that access have provided intelligence or information helpful to your investigation and possibly to the findings included in the intelligence community assessments?

Director Comey. Our forensics folks would always prefer to get access to the original device or server that's involved. So it's the best evidence.

Chairman Burr. Were you given access to do the forensics on those servers?

Director Comey. We were not. A highly respected private company eventually got access and shared with us what they saw there.

Chairman Burr. But is that typically the way the FBI would prefer to do the forensics, or would your forensics unit rather see the servers and do the forensics themselves?

Director Comey. We'd always prefer to have access hands-on ourselves if that's possible.

Chairman Burr. Do you know why you were denied access to those servers?

Director Comey. I don't know for sure. I don't know for sure.

Chairman Burr. Was there one request or multiple requests?

Director Comey. Multiple requests at different levels, and ultimately what was agreed to is the private company would share with us what they saw.

No forensic study was conducted by any division of the FBI. If there had been one it would have violated the agreement that was made.

Sorry, but from the evidence at hand that is the only conclusion that I can draw.

No forensic study was conducted by any division of the FBI.

Nonsense. The FBI got the images, did forensic analysis and said they agreed with CrowdStrike's analysis.

It's true they didn't get access to the physical servers, which they understandably wanted, but they ended up being satisfied with what they got.

I really don't know what your theory is here.

Care to share your thesis?

Or are you just throwing dust in the air?