Posted on 03/05/2023 6:43:58 PM PST by marshmallow
The correct ‘processes were all followed’ regarding the widely-criticized SWAT raid of the Houck family, FBI Director Christoper Wray claimed.
(LifeSiteNews) — The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently defended the agency’s dramatic raid of pro-life advocate Mark Houck.
During an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Tuesday, FBI director Christopher Wray backed his agency’s actions on September 23, 2022, when numerous armed agents swarmed Houck’s Pennsylvania home early in the morning and arrested him in front of his seven children.
After an incident occurred with an “escort” outside an abortion center, Houck was accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. He was acquitted of all charges on January 30, but the nature of his arrest has remained a highly controversial issue across the country.
“The show of force for that arrest, that decision to use that force, was that by the book?” Baier asked, referring to the early morning raid consisting of nearly 30 SWAT agents with rifles drawn and pointed at the man whose case had already been thrown out of court.
“Those decisions are made—as they should be—by the commanders on the ground, in the field office, who have the expertise about when to conduct operations safely and securely, for the safety of everybody involved,” Wray answered. “To my knowledge, those processes were all followed in this case.”
Baier then addressed the frustration of many Americans that such force was used on a peaceful protestor while the FBI fails to address actual violence with the same intensity. He cited the agency’s protocol that “a defendant—if he has no criminal history, is not believed to be violent or pose a threat to public safety—that he or she is permitted to self-surrender rather than subject dynamic execution......
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Wray is just confirming that the FBI is the KGB/NKVD for the deep state.
Not by accident. Most of these times you could have called the guys attorney and say we have a warrant, can you turn yourself in. It usually works. Not arrests at homes, with SWAT teams, at airports, in public, etc.
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Like Waco and Ruby Ridge, Wray?
Great job, Donald Trump, the worst judge of character since Eve said, “aw, what a cute little snake!”
What? Trump says he is the bestest pick ever.
That was done in this case. The guy had already agreed to come in, on his own.
This was the DOJ’s show of power all the way. Garland, Wray, and the others involved should be prosecuted.
Yeah, because those Pro-Life Advocates are some of the most likely killers there are. They just have no respect for life.
Who ordered Houck’s arrest?
My thoughts exactly as soon as I read his quote.
Sue Wray for $100 million personally, for trampling civil rights by abuse of office
No one should accept lame excuses like that for what is arguably sociopathic behavior.
Shut this psycho Gestapo down.
Yeah, like the FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi, who shot Vicki Weaver in the head, in August 1992, in the Weaver cabin doorway at Ruby Ridge while she was holding nothing but her baby.
Horiuchi should have been convicted of premeditated murder for that.
The FBI are nothing but lawless thugs.
The good guys across America will NEVER FORGET all of the crimes these FBI criminals have committed.
LOL show me a republican Trump could have picked who is not deep state, with some law enforcement background?
Hello....there is NONE.
Your post is empty hot air, because you can’t name any such republicans.
He’s a real piece of work.
“Who ordered Houck’s arrest?”
I don’t think anybody’s copping to it yet. Probably Wray, though.
Yeah Trump picked some real doozies
“ Those decisions are made—as they should be—by the commanders on the ground, in the field office, who have the expertise about when to conduct operations safely and securely, for the safety of everybody involved,” Wray answered”
We keep hiring bankers, judges, prosecutors and corporate lawyers to run the FBI. None have even the most basic law enforcing experience. None have so much as made a misdemeanor arrest in their entire careers.
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