Christopher Wray will be going away and making way for Kash Patel
Couldn’t resist that triple rhyme.
President-elect Trump said Christopher Wray’s resignation is a “great day for America,” telling Fox News Digital it “will end the weaponization” of the FBI, while touting his nominee Kash Patel as the “most qualified” to lead the bureau.
Wray announced Wednesday afternoon his plans to resign in January 2025. …
“After weeks of careful thought, I’ve decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in January and then step down,” Wray said during the town hall. “My goal is to keep the focus on? our mission – the indispensable work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day. In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work.”
The FBI director said the decision was not easy for him, adding he loves the FBI, its mission and people.
Wray is seven years into his 10-year term.
Trump appointed Wray in 2017 after he fired former Director James Comey from the post.
Both of them were dreadful.
I’ve been very impressed with Patel in the past. Let’s assume his nomination is approved by the Republican Senate – and then let’s take a moment to reflect not only how different things would be if Harris had been elected, but how different things would be even if Trump had been elected but the Senate had remained in Democrat hands.
“… My goal is to keep the focus on our mission…”
Which is to subvert Trump and his incoming administration AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.
Hate to say it but this ain’t over yet.
Cf.
“Alvin Bragg’s latest banana-republic Trump stunt proves AGAIN that he must go”—
https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/opinion/alvin-braggs-latest-banana-republic-trump-stunt-proves-again-that-he-must-go/
(And Letitia James is hard at it as well…)
Hope I’m wrong.
…even as Jonathan Turley reminds of something we’ve known well for a long, long time…
“ Jonathan Turley: Susan Wild and other rotten Dems are in an ethical free fall”—
https://nypost.com/2024/12/10/opinion/susan-wild-and-other-rotten-dems-are-part-of-the-latest-political-free-fall-from-the-left/
“President-elect Trump said Christopher Wray’s resignation is a “great day for America,” telling Fox News Digital it “will end the weaponization” of the FBI…”
Let’s pray that Trump doesn’t really think that the weaponization of the FBI only resides with Christopher Wray. While not everyone in the Bureau, the rot extends all the way to the bottom. This is almost certainly the case with every federal agency.
I’ve watched some hearings with Wray. If you wanted to know the time of day, you’d hear ‘ongoing investigation”.
Wray’s resignation was ‘encouraged’ by Sen. Grassley.
“Sen. Chuck Grassley demanded Monday that FBI director Christopher Wray step aside in a brutal rebuke of his tenure at the bureau, as GOP senators cheered President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Kash Patel to replace him as director.
“For the good of the country, it’s time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives,” Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in a blistering 11-page letter to Wray, referring to the director and deputy director Paul Abbate.
“[I] must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI.”
https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/us-news/sen-grassley-expresses-no-confidence-in-fbi-director-wray-as-republicans-cheer-trump-nominee-kash-patel/
It’s not entirely Wray’s fault, he’s dealing with the agency as it is currently configured. Post-9/11 Mueller and Congress gave FBI a counterintelligence mission in addition to the investigative and law enforcement missions it historically had.
Counterintelligence created many more opportunities for mischief and infringements of civil liberties, and became a career path for the more officious woke busybodies and political operators that populated the FBI as Obama and Eric Holder took control.
Trump, Patel, and Congress need to break out that counterintelligence mission from the FBI and get it back to a professional and largely non-political path.
John Bolton opinion piece on Patel today.
https://archive.md/9QDwN
If you haven’t had time to read Patel’s Government Gangsters, you can watch the film:
https://warroom.film/
I despise John Bolton and am glad he is not in government. He is best on the sidelines. An outrageous self-server.And a buddy of Wray the Fibbie, I’m sure.
My guess he will leave the country unless he gets a Sundowner pardon
thats one way of putting it
https://x.com/themarketswork/status/1866971344107344125
what use is our intelligence agencies
Let’s see what my little poetry machine can do here….
Christopher Wray
resolves to make way
as soon as Trump’s new term shall start
For Grassley did say
To keep rancor at bay
It were well for the man to depart
Now our dear Mr. Wray
“held his team from the fray”
For which he was thought of as smart
Kash and Tulsi said Nay
At the end of the day
The taste of it’s nothing but tart.
I of course credit the hostess for the original impetus.
CNN you’re getting slammed in rating by The Food Network – – let us help you out. . .
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/12/cnn-youre-getting-slammed-in-rating-by.html
miguel, that’s hilarious!
To be fair, I always suspected—deep down—that OMB was responsible for ALL those baseless accusations made against him by all those honorable alphabet agencies, who do things “The American Way”(TM) and “wouldn’t hurt a fly”…
(It’s perfectly intuitive, actually…in a “look what HE’s making US do!!!!” kinda way….)
Philip Sells:
Bravo!
“Biden” (and your taxes) at work…
“DHS Announces New Rule To Allow Noncitizen Workers To Keep Jobs Longer While Awaiting Renewals”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-announces-new-rule-allow-noncitizen-workers-keep-jobs-longer-while-awaiting-renewals
HARD at work…