Christopher Wray testifies in his own inimitable way
A few tidbits can be found here.
For example:
GAETZ: "Are you protecting the Bidens?!"
FBI DIRECTOR CHRIS WRAY: "Absolutely not!" pic.twitter.com/Jp5TZJrRl4
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 12, 2023
And this:
FBI Director Chris Wray has no idea how many times the FBI used illegal FISA queries to surveil American citizens under his leadership — despite inspector general reports and court rulings uncovering hundreds of thousands of instances pic.twitter.com/agHESCTREh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 12, 2023
People like Wray can do this sort of stuff in their sleep; it’s become second nature and they know that only the right will call them on it. The left will back them up.
From Gaetz to Wray:
…[T]he FBI has broken so bad that people can go and engage in queries that when you come before the Congress to answer questions, you’re, like, blissfully ignorant — you’re blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries; you’re blissfully ignorant as to the Biden shakedown regime. And, it just seems like it gets into kind of a creepy place as well…
Just so the American people realize, the Court has smacked you down, alleging — or ruling — “FBI personnel apparently conducted queries for improper personal reasons.” People were looking themselves up; they were looking their ex-lovers up. Who has been held accountable or fired as a consequence of the FBI using the FISA process as their, like, creepy personal snoop machine?
Would that were all that’s wrong with the FBI.
NOTE: Today’s entire proceedings here.
ADDENDUM: And here’s Wray on FBI assets on January 6th:
“I would really have to see more closely exactly what he said and get the full context to be able to evaluate how many agents, or actually agents or human resources, were present at the Capitol complex and the vicinity on January 6,” Wray said. “It’s gonna get confusing because it depends on when we were deployed and responded to the breach that occurred anywhere under federal agents.”
Biggs called him out for obfuscating: “You and I both know that we’re talking different things here, and please don’t distract here because we’re focusing on those who were there in an undercover capacity on January 6. How many were there?”
Wray played dumb: “Again, I’m not sure that I can give you the number as I sit here. I’m not sure there were undercover agents on the scene.”
Please read the whole thing; the bobbing and weaving from Wray goes on for quite some time. He is a master of nitpicky rhetorical obfuscation.
I really want to see him executed for treason. Sorry, but that’s my take.
He is sure he can weasel his way through, the Democrats Propaganda Ministry won’t acknowledge he was even there. In the end he is free and laughing all the way to the bank with his paycheck and pension
CNN totally ignores the Wray testimony…not surprising. Apparently warm ocean temps off of Florida is more interesting, and actually false as the temp anomaly is not that high.
Back to yesterday… with that sort of MSM coverage why shouldn’t all those D and LIV voters not think the FBI is just hunky dory??
None of this high level corruption of the Bidens and their lackeys in the alphabet agencies will ever break through to the general public, and thus, nothing will happen to any of them. I just so tired of it all, I can’t get worked up about it any more.
stay puft says its totes fine
https://twitter.com/RealStevefriend/status/1679221529135968256
Just so the American people realize, the Court has smacked you down, alleging — or ruling — “FBI personnel apparently conducted queries for improper personal reasons.” People were looking themselves up; they were looking their ex-lovers up. Who has been held accountable or fired as a consequence of the FBI using the FISA process as their, like, creepy personal snoop machine?
1) I was not aware of that facet. Though from previous information, when Adm. Rogers was head of the NSA, the FBI had carte blanche for a time to anything they wanted. Why not the above?
2) Decades ago, the IRS got busted for just this type of snooping. Although the NSA can and does go far beyond mere tax returns. Congress belatedly discovered that the IRS had a warehouse full of computer tapes containing records of which IRS personnel accessed which files. The problem was that no one ever looked at those tapes until Congress demanded that it be done. I recall that various IRS agents were looking at Sylvester Stallone’s files for the fun of it.
We definitely need four more years of top notch nominations like this guy.
Eeyore…I second your motion.
tell me who was not willing to betray the country and could be confirmed by the possum senate,
Wray was a huge Trump mistake, but it emphasises the fact that Trump, the NYC real estate guy, knew none of the big, mostly Democratic, players in the Swamp. That ignorance caused Cabinet appointments, then turnovers, pretty often. He did get it right with Mike Pomeo, though.
It troubles me about my country when I read Democratic mockery of MAGA. What is wrong with the slogan, Make America Great Again? And Trump did so until COVID came along.
Now we have the criminal Biden gang, safe from any justice. Just millions from China because your name is Biden and you live in Delaware, have never been to China.
Always an excuse. Always somebody else’s fault.
Cult like devotion will never end I guess.
Cicero,
I agree but the question I have is how are his nominations going to be any better in a second term. If anything they will probably be worse because of how he has treated even the most loyal people from the first term.
What competent person would submit themselves to the crap shower they would bring on themselves only to have the guy that appointed you then turn on you and sick all his disciples on you so now you are getting it from all sides.
the bushes picked mueller, who waded through whitey bulgers boston with nary any curiousity, he hung on forever, bill barr sent him to shut down the bcci investigation, and had a role in ruby ridge, he was running interference against gonzalez with fitz and comey, then it was comey’s turn,
A Trump selection only more confounding than Rex Tillerson.
the bureau seems to know who to target, and who to leave alone, gaetz was a target in a strategy not unlike what william allen did to ted stevens, after wray there was mccabe and strzok and laufman, and the rest of the peanut gallery,
Chris Wray is a dirty cop.
Wray seems to be extremely unknowledgeable about what goes on n in his agency. Is he in charge or merely a figurehead? Does he read inspector general reports, field office reports, and get briefed on the lates big cases? Does he spend ten-hour days at the office? To hear what he says, it appears he’s just coasting and knows little about his agency. He’s either grossly underperforming and uninformed or he’s a professional dissembler and mendacious as h**l.
Whatever the case, he’s not serving the nation well and needs to go.
yes, but who will bell that cat,
This whole Biden crew–starting at the top, and all the way down–needs to be in orange jumpsuits.
I tend to agree about the lousy Trump appointments but he relied on weasels and snakes to advise him. I thought Tillerson was a great appointment but he was weird. Mattis wound up on the Theranos Board recommending that DoD buy the fake lab stuff. Maybe the DC water is contaminated. I think Trump is probably going to the the nominee. DeSantis seems to be stuck in 1st gear.
Maybe Trump should choose somebody like Rick Grenell as VP. he seems competent and maybe should be put to choosing staff.
DeSantis is “stuck in first gear” only if you heed the Democratic MSM, which knows Trump will lose to Biden. That is the only reason these disgusting ‘journalists’ have for finding excuses for Trump, an ex-prez horribly persecuted for his indiscretions. See the Penn-Biden Center for stashed classified documents, or the floor of Ol’ Joe’s garage.
Vote #3 here for capital punishment for Wray (among others), or at minimum a long stay in a prison in a conservative southern state, sans A/C.
Sad to say, Trump hired Wray, but didn’t fire him when Wray showed his true colors.
I intend to vote for DeSantis in the primary, despite what the “experts” are saying.
The Only Trumpers remind me of Ron Paul’s supporters in his presidential bid. These yahoos viciously attacked anyone who opposed them. I wondered if their love of Paul was based on his support for legalizing drugs. Ron Paul lost me when he said that 9/11/2001 was the USA’s fault, because we had soldiers in Muslim countries. Unfortunately, this also taints Rand Paul with me, since the apple usually falls near the tree.
I will vote for Trump in the general election, if he is the GOP nominee.
With Trump as the likely GOP nominee, I doubt that Wray fears prosecution. No Democrat’s administration will prosecute him. If Biden follows through and runs, he probably has to keep Wray on at the FBI until 2028, if he wants to stay that long.
If the GOP primaries start to swing away from Trump, I predict that you will see Wray and others begin to sing.
he fired comey, look what happened, horowitz dismissed mccabe, he got a book deal, brennan got his security clearance lifted, but as the tablet points out hes too much of a jerk for even the progs to help him, crime pays, ciaramella the real mole got a gig at carnegie, covering for the country team in ukraine,
yes nervous nellies like erickson and unnamed persons in rolling stone, its embarassing what some people supposedly on our team, behave like, not that roger stone is any better, but he’s not a shrinking violet, we haven’t even had a debate yet,
I probably will as well, it’s the quixotic nature in me, wray has made it clear he considers all prolifers veterans mothers of small children an enemy, the reverse with transgender killers, antifa terrorists et al,
so the luft indictment makes for interesting reading, most of these transactions happened during the obama administration, when they had opened the floodgate to iran deals, how they allegedly found out about these deals is curious, if they happened,
I believe it was Chris Christy that suggested Trump appoint Wray.
Wray was also Christy’s attorney in the bridge-gate mess.
Wray as appointed in August 2017 and there is no way he did not know about the FBI pressuring social media sites to silence any/all criticism of the Biden’s and of Fauci, and in ignoring the Hunter lap top.
Wray is one dishonest POS.
Wray really has nothing to fear from Congress or even a new republican president , even though lying to Congress is a crime. He won’t even worry about getting fired because he will resign before a republican becomes president.
Just look at all those hi-ranking officials – all democrats – that have lied to
Congress; they have suffered zero consequences. The govt bureaucrats find a way
not to punish those who committed crimes.
It baffles me that anybody thinks it will be different this time .
We have a govt. of, by and for the govt. bureaucracy – and frankly, they make the majority of laws – and with the media and all demokrats on their side, they do whatever they want with impunity. The deep state leaks “info” to the media, and the compliant media runs with it.
No questions asked.
Then Congressional demokrats repeat this latest story ad infinitum and about 50% of the citizenry believe it; no questions asked.
Just wait and see; Wray will ‘walk” scot-free and land himself a high paying job in the private sector or in the media.
I don’t think we get it—well maybe some of us—but it happens to be both an honor and a privilege for the usual grotesqueries to get up in front of a crowd, particularly a Congressional investigative committee RUN BY REPUBLICANS and lie their heads off, prevaricate till the cows come home, lie—by omission, by commission, by feigned forgetfulness—with no shame, deceive with carefree delight, etc…even as it WILL GUARANTEE them a lucrative gig with any number of the Most Corrupt Media—or academic institutions—in American History.
Not only is it an honor and a privilege but it’s a Good Deed, a Righteous Act, a RELIGIOUS COMMANDMENT…as has been demonstrated so often by so many of the perfervid, fervent faithful—warriors for all that is good, decent, humane, high-minded, holy, ethical and uplifting….
Here’s just the latest excretion from one of the more outrageous scoundrels (and that’s saying quite a lot)…unfortunately:
“New York Rep. Jerry Nadler alleges FBI whistleblowers were paid $250,000 to testify before Congress;
“He went on to allege the money given to them was raised by former Trump aide Kash Patel.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/new-york-rep-jerry-nadler-alleges-fbi-whistleblowers-were-paid-250000-testify
and in circus tent no 3
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1679476487110508545
Yes, the nitpicking about who’s an undercover agent, or an informant, or an asset. I’d say that Republicans need somebody who understands the lingo, but the terminology is all so convoluted that Wray would still find a way to wriggle out anyway.
On the same day, John Kerry saying that he doesn’t own a private jet now and he’s never personally owned a private jet. His family, or their foundations, or their corporations have owned jets. Kerry hasn’t been flying commercially much. But he’s able to dodge the question about his burning so much jet fuel, but playing with the technicalities.
Good job by Matt Gaetz. Unfortunately, he’s still Matt Gaetz.