thought so.
Ms. Jackson Lee. Let me move on.
It is true, is it not, that Secretary Clinton's campaign was not the subject of a Federal counterintelligence investigation by our Nation's law enforcement?
Mr. Comey. To my knowledge, it was not.
You're saying the Clinton campaign?
Ms. Jackson Lee. Yes.
Mr. Comey. To my knowledge, it was not.
Ms. Jackson Lee. But the same is not true with respect to the Trump campaign, which was under investigation for colluding with a hostile foreign power to influence the outcome of the 2016 election?
Mr. Comey. The Trump campaign was not under investigation. The FBI, in late July, opened counterintelligence investigations of four Americans to see if they were working in any way with the Russians to influence our elections.
Ms. Jackson Lee. Those individuals were affiliated with the campaign? I believe they were in some form.
Mr. Comey. At least some of them were. The FBI and the Department of Justice have not confirmed the names of those folks publicly, which is why I'm not going into the specifics.
Ms. Jackson Lee. However, during the discovery of that investigation, which was comparable to an investigation of
