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FBI’s chief instigator, Christopher Wray, wasn’t happy to make a reappearance on Capitol Hill in front of Senator Charles Grassley. Especially not now that Republicans have control of the House and are about to start investigating him. They’re going to probe him in places he didn’t know he had so he tried to get in a little preemptive damage control.
Wray grilled relentlessly
FBI Director Christopher Wray was hammered relentlessly on Thursday November 17, by one senator after another until he felt like Paul Pelosi. Missouri Senator Josh Hawley was the first to fire up a blow torch for some heated interrogation.
Iowa Senator Charles Grassley sat back and watched with interest while his Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee colleague did the grilling. He’s still angry about the last time he tangled with the smirking instigator. So, Hawley began. When you were here on August 4, your testimony had to be “cut short,” he reminded.
Wray told the senators that day he had to “be somewhere.” He made it sound urgent. “The press reported… you were flying on a Gulf Stream jet for a personal vacation in the Adirondacks. Please tell me that’s not accurate,” Hawley primed.
Sen. Josh Hawley criticized FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate hearing, describing his behavior from a few months ago as "absolutely unbelievable." https://t.co/BfGVdDfvZS
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 17, 2022
The senator was soon disappointed to learn, it was in fact accurate. Yes, the director confirmed, he did fly on the private jet and he also claims he paid the bill.
Christopher Wray was totally on top of the plane controversy. He’s not just allowed to use the jet, he testified, he’s required to use it “wherever I go.” On that day, he admitted, it was “on vacation.”
He also claims he didn’t cut his testimony short, alleging it was scheduled that way ahead of time. He simply declined to extend it simply so Senator Grassley could ream him a new one over bureau bias toward Democrats. He promised to send over his reimbursement receipts.
Hunter Biden case
After the senators cleared the air on the little fishing trip Wray escaped on, they switched gears and Senator Ron Johnson started interrogating him about the report they just sent over to him about Biden family influence peddling investigations.
The first thing Johnson wanted to establish for foundation is whether the FBI was going to call their report “Russian disinformation.” Specifically, he asked if Chris thought “anything in the report could be linked back to the Russians.”
After squirming a little to think up an answer to such a heavily loaded question, Wray replied, “that would be a hard question for me to answer.” Hard because he doesn’t want to admit on the record the report is legitimate yet can’t deny a single word of it. Johnson made it easy for him.
Every Senator needs to ask these tough questions. https://t.co/IJwE01LVsp
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) November 17, 2022
“There is no Russian disinformation. That report is completely clean of any interference of foreign influence, although we have been falsely accused, including the chairman of this committee of spreading Russian disinformation.” Ouch, that stung.
When the laptop first surfaced, a month before the 2020 election, “a group of ex-national security officials wrote a public letter saying they believed the laptop had the hallmark of Russian disinformation.” Since then it’s all been proven 100 percent authentic.
Johnson wanted to know if Wray or any of his cronies helped write that letter. “I’m not aware of any involvement by the FBI in what you’re describing” came the reply. I don’t know is always a safe answer. They can’t call that lying to Congress and it’s not as messy as pleading the fifth.
