FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress the bureau has started to “claw back” information gathered through Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Wray made the comments earlier this week when appearing before the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee during his first congressional testimony in the wake of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s damning investigation.

Horowitz concluded that the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation was flawed, and he criticized the DOJ and the FBI for 17 " significant errors and omissions" related to secret surveillance court filings targeting Page. The filings relied on salacious and unverified allegations contained within British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier.

“The failures highlighted in that report are unacceptable — period. They don’t reflect who the FBI is as an institution, and they cannot be repeated,” Wray testified. “The FBI has embraced every last one of the inspector general’s recommendations, but we’re also making a number of improvements above and beyond.”

Republican lawmakers pushed the FBI director for specifics about what the FBI was doing to figure out how so many things were allowed to go wrong in the Page FISA process, how it would discipline those involved, and how it would ensure that such mistakes didn’t happen again.

Rep. Doug Collins, a Georgia Republican, asked Wray if he’d looked into whether the FBI followed the so-called “Woods procedures,” named for FBI lawyer Michael Woods, who developed the guidelines. According to those guidelines, the DOJ and the FBI are supposed to verify the factual accuracy of each assertion in FISA applications.

“Did the FBI conduct a Woods review on the Carter Page FISA applications?” Collins said. “I’m not asking for the Horowitz report — I’m asking about this specific issue.”

Wray responded: “We have done specific reviews of the materials underlying the Carter Page FISA applications, including a number of steps that we’ve taken lately to, in effect, claw back the information that was collected under those applications."

The FBI declined to elaborate on what the bureau director meant by “clawing back” the FISA information, but the FISA court revealed in rare public filings that in the wake of Horowitz’s report, the DOJ told the FISA court it believed the final two Page FISA warrants were " invalid" and were still reviewing the first two. The FBI told the court it was working to " sequester" all the information obtained through the Page FISA requests.

“The government further reports that the FBI has agreed ‘to sequester all collection the FBI acquired pursuant to the Court's authorizations in the above-listed four docket numbers targeting [Carter] Page,” the FISA court’s presiding judge, James Boasberg, wrote.

In a rare public order, the FISA court criticized the FBI's handling of the Page applications as "antithetical to the heightened duty of candor" and demanded an evaluation from the bureau. The FISA court also ordered a review of all FISA filings handled by Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer who deceptively altered a key document about Page in the third renewal process. Clinesmith now is under criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham, a prosecutor from Connecticut who was tasked by Attorney General William Barr with investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia inquiry.