Durham: ‘Our Findings Were Sobering ... What Is Required Is Accountability!’

Durham: “Our findings were sobering and I tell you, having spent 40 years plus as a federal prosecutor, they are particularly sobering to me and number of my colleagues who spent decades in the FBI themselves, they are sobering. While I’m encouraged by some of the reforms that have been implemented by the FBI, the problems identified in this report, anybody who actually reads the report and the details of the report, that documented portions of the report, I think, would find that the problems identified in the report are not susceptible to overnight fixes. As we said in the report, they cannot be addressed solely by enhancing training or additional policy requirements, rather, what is required is accountability, both in terms of the standards through which our law enforcement personnel hold themselves and in the consequences they face for violation of laws and policies of relevance.”