Senators often question officials in committee hearings like we typically see, but they also conduct fact-finding missions to learn how executive actions are affecting their constituents.

But the report's authors have said the "audit did not include a fact-finding exercise where the strength of evidence was tested in relation to complaints made against specific individuals".

He is currently putting together a "fact-finding" delegation to travel to Washington DC and bring the movement directly to the Trumpov administration.

“I’m sure I could explain all of this in writing without being accused of improper fact-finding, but it’s obviously much more effective to simply show you,” VanDyke said.

A special master appointed by the court to do fact-finding in the case said last year that a “bona fide mental health staffing emergency” persisted and in some prisons had gotten worse.