Disgraced FBI Director, Christopher Wray, did not have a good day yesterday.
Breaking Digest reported some of Director Wray’s testimony before the House.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) nailed him on a question that Wray refused to answer about FBI agents or informants dressed as Trump supporters in the Capitol on Jan. 6. That didn’t go well for Wray.
During the hearing, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) slammed Wray for leaving a statutorily required committee hearing early so he could go on a vacation.
Sen. Hawley went on to criticize Chris Wray for politicizing the FBI under his watch, based on the statements from FBI whistleblowers.
Below is the transcript:
Hawley: Whistleblowers who have come forward to members of this body, to members of the House. The FBI has been sending more than, in one instance, a dozen armed agents to the rural Pennsylvania home of a Catholic pro-life demonstrator to arrest him at gunpoint in front of his children in the early morning hours, despite the fact that he posed no risk of violence or threat and had previously offered to turn himself in.
Numerous whistleblowers and field agents have alleged that DC, your headquarters, has pulled them off working on child sex abuse cases, working on human trafficking cases in order to work on January 6 matters. For this reason, to give the appearance, they say they say that there are hundreds of new domestic terrorism cases in the country when in fact, there are not.
Whistleblowers and field agents have also said that DC has ordered the use of SWAT teams on nonviolent suspects who may have attended the January 6 rally, and they have been ordered to conduct surveillance and knock on doors of people who were not even in DC on January 6. And again, all of this, according to the whistleblowers, these are your agents, all of this in order to make it look as if there’s a mass surge in domestic terrorism all across the country, when in fact, the stats are being padded by political directive in your office.
They also say these whistleblowers, the DC leadership, deliberately suppressed investigations into Hunter Biden contrary to FBI procedure, and have also retaliated against FBI agents and whistleblowers who have contacted congress, which, by the way, they are protected by statute to do so. This is what’s happening at your FBI while you are evading oversight hearings. Mr. Director, do you think you’re still up for this job?
Wray: I absolutely think I’m still up to this job, and I think our workforce feels the same way.
Hawley: Well, I don’t. And frankly, I think you should have been gone a long time ago. And given your behavior recently, I think it only makes it more clear. Are there any travel plans today that we should be aware of, that you have? We’re supposed to have a second round. Will you be here for that?
Wray: Yes
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