On Thursday, Christopher Wray, FBI Director is in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hot seat to discuss a range of topics. As I reported earlier, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled him over the politicization of the FBI, including questions about normal patriotic symbols that they were categorizing as signs of “militia violent extremism.”
Wray looked bad enough that he didn’t know about and/or was lying about problems at his office.
Wray made it worse by answering questions about Russia collusion, the Hunter Biden laptop and Hunter Biden’s computer from Sen. Marsha BLACKBURN (R-TN).
Blackburn: “Does it seem like Russian collusion was an elaborate hoax?”
Wray: I wouldn’t use this terminology.”
Blackburn: Do you think Hunter Biden was Russian?
Wray: I can’t comment. pic.twitter.com/h74Wfyeotb
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 4, 2022
Blackburn asked if Wray would agree that Russia collusion was a “hoax.” He said that he wouldn’t use the terminology. When asked if he agreed that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation, he said, “I can’t comment on that.” He claimed it was an “ongoing” investigation. He wouldn’t even admit they had the laptop.
This investigation does not consider the fact that the laptop contains Russian disinformation. If you wanted to inquire about Hunter Biden’s investigation, it would be one thing. If you can’t even admit to certain basic truths, that shows how compromised he, and therefore the FBI, are at this point.
He doesn’t seem to have much else to say. His only skill seems to be to dodge questions and to turn the FBI into an entirely politicized mess.
When senators called him on it, his reply was: Sorry, guys, I can’t stick around, I have to catch a plane. That was true, he did say that to Sen. Chuck Grassley of the Republican-IA.
That astonished Grassley, who nailed him with a little reality, saying but you have “your own plane.”
Of course, Wray doesn’t want to stick around and give the Republicans 21 more minutes to grill him on things. He is a smuggler. You work for us, Director Wray. And you have your own plane–that we pay for. So, it isn’t like you’re going to miss a flight if you leave 21 minutes later. You can’t believe this man.
This guy believes he is able to get away with it because he has done this before. Dick Durbin (Democrat from Illinois) seemed to think it was a huge deal that Wray had testified for them three times in a short time. Given all the issues, that’s ridiculous. They need to find a way to clean house at the FBI, if they are ever going to rectify this problem; the first thing that needs to be done is put someone at the top who can help do that, and it isn’t Wray. It is unlikely that this will happen until they take back control of the White House. But they have to take back the Senate and apply all the pressure they can until then–and pull out the contempt possibility if they aren’t getting answers.
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