Posted on 01/25/2019 5:44:07 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
FBI Director Wray on shutdown: 'I'm about as angry as I've been in a long, long time'
FBI Director Christopher Wray addressed the government shutdown in a video message to FBI employees, saying he's "about as angry as I've been in a long, long time." "Making some people stay home when they don't want to, and making others show up without pay -- it's mind-boggling, it's short-sighted, and it's unfair," Wray said, noting the financial impact the shutdown has had on many government workers in its 35th day. Wray, who was confirmed as FBI director in 2017 after President Donald Trump fired James Comey, said the FBI has been "actively advocating" for its employees, just not in the press because of the highly polarized political climate. "You know better than most that we've been thrust into the political spotlight more than we would have liked over the past few years," Wray said. "And the last thing this organization needs now is its leadership to wade into the middle of a full-on political dispute."
He continued: "But let me also be very clear: We're actively advocating for you left and right, at every level. We're having conversations day and night with people who can have the most impact, to show them how much this is affecting all of you and your families, and how it could affect the work we need to do for the American people. We're just not doing it in the press." Wray adds that "even seemingly straightforward statements can be hijacked by one side or the other."
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“we’ve been thrust into the political spotlight more than we would have liked” -— He has some nerve saying this. The FBI shamed themselves. Bunch of crooked cops.
When he passes, this should be engraved on Wray's headstone.
Amazing bit of sarcasm there, keep it up.
Have you ever hear someone say, "Things have deteriorated so much that there is no voting our way out of this."? That sentiment rings truer and truer every day, to me.
I pretty much reached that conclusion in 2008, Trump offered a brief respite from it.
Director Wray, WTFC what you and your crooked organization thinks.
I think this is what the deep state and the commie dems are pushing for. If they win CWII they get our guns and their utopia, we get put down.
Mr. niteowl77
They wouldn’t win.
(Comment directed at Wray, not you, Yoda.)
F’ing swamp dwellers!
How about securing our country from the millions of foreign invaders?
The FBI and DOJ have clearly decided they answer to no one and the law will be applied based on the politics of the person in question. They have gone rogue, meet the new gestopo and NKVD of the USA.
My fake outrage detector just went off again.
They were fighting about 5 billion for a wall, the FBI has annual budget of 9 billion +. Snowden said it was around 50 billion off the books for surveillance. It’s all pretty much kabuki theater at this point.
Freegards
What a pu$$y.
Wray is scum just like a good many of his upper level management. They can starve and rot in a just world for all I care.
The FBI should know better than most about that. They are 100% responsible for bringing it on themselves.
Disband the FBI.
Noop. No contest at all.
To even repeat the lie that folks believe civil servants will not be paid for not working is enough to fire him.
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