“Pressure mounts on Wray as FBI behavior in Russia case comes into clearer focus”
FTA:Back in early 2018, the FBI under newly minted Director Chris Wray issued an extraordinarily rare public rebuke of a sitting House committee chairman.
Then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes had just issued a memo concluding that the FBI under Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process to improperly spy on President Trump’s campaign.
Wray fired back, even though the issues didn’t happen on his watch, suggesting Nunes had given an inaccurate picture to the American public.
“We have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy,” the bureau said in a statement that reverberated across America, especially with mainstream media that had pushed the faulty Russia collusion narrative for months.
Now two years later, Nunes’ memo has been vindicated by the belated release of classified information and a Justice Department inspector general’s report that confirmed systematic FISA abuses and much wider problems inside the FBI.
“Director Wray owes the American people an explanation about the FBI’s misconduct with General Flynn,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. “It’s becoming more and more apparent that the FBI ruined the life of a respected general in its goal to take down President Trump.”
Jordan added: “The FBI’s actions were part of a larger pattern of wrongdoing, which were all directed against the president and his advisers. If they can do it to a president, they can do it to any of us.”
Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, was even more harsh in her assessment, accusing Wray’s FBI of hiding the truth.
“Wray knew about the evidence we were requesting for General Flynn,” Powell told Just the News. “My request was even discussed in the Director’s meeting. Most of what has been produced so far and what will be produced has been in FBI files all along—now more than three years. If the Prosecutors refused to produce it, he should have taken it to the AG or filed a whistle blower complaint himself. Instead, it would appear he was part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice and Congress, and we don’t know what else.”
Guys like Wray are very careful to keep enough control files that he holds the short and curlies of both sides of the aisle
Its that simple. And that easy. All someone like him has to do is hold a dossier on 535 member of the House and Senate, 9 Supreme Court Justices and the top administrative echelons of about 35 Federal Agencies-prob less than 1000 people overall-easy to get leverage on more than 50% of a crowd like that.
Its the achilles heel of any centralized government-and one of many reasons the Founders intended for the states powers to exceed the Federal
Its all a game-one fox after another minding the henhouse.
These guys all draw their pay and pensions from the same place.
I’m finding it very difficult to “trust Wray”.
I never liked Wray from the first time I laid eyes on him, seems like an arrogant bassturd. Did you see that he was Mueller’s pitbull Weissman’s supervisor when Weissman was ruining thousands of people’s lives in Anderson Accounting?
Really GOOD Post!!! Thanks.