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Mr. Gowdy. What questions did you -- what two Bureau agents did you send?

Mr. Comey. Only one of them has been identified publicly, so I can do that. Peter Strzok was one of the two. The other was a career counterintelligence agent.

Mr. Gowdy. And what questions did they ask related to Flynn's relationship with Russia?

Mr. Comey. I don't know the answer to that.

Mr. Gowdy. The Bureau knew that Michael Flynn was not telling the truth. You knew that before you sent the agents over there, right?

Mr. Comey. No, I didn't know that.

Mr. Gowdy. What did you know?

Mr. Comey. I knew certain classified facts about the nature of his interactions with the Russians. I knew that the Vice President was making statements that he attributed to conversations he'd had with Mr. Flynn that were starkly at odds with those classified facts.

Mr. Gowdy. You had the option of going to the Vice President and telling him that you knew for a fact what he was being told by General Flynn was not correct. That was one option, wasn't it?

Mr. Comey. I'm not going to answer a hypothetical. We didn't do that.

Mr. Gowdy. I know you didn't, Director Comey, but it's not unfair to ask what your options were. If you're concerned that

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