Today there was a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, and it had FBI Director Christopher Wray in the hot seat.
He probably wishes he'd just stayed out of the kitchen...
On the one side, he had Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley taking him to task for literally fleeing an August oversight hearing regarding his agency’s handling of Hunter Biden’s potential criminal activity so that he could fly off an take a vacation in the Adirondacks.
He cut his statutorily required oversight hearing short so that he could hop on the FBI's Gulfstream jet to get there.
“You left an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee required by statute so that you could vacation with your family. I find that absolutely unbelievable, and frankly, indefensible,” Sen. Josh Hawley said.
The FBI director insisted that, in spite of that, he was still fit for the job.
Senator Hawley didn't agree.
“Well, I don’t, and frankly I think you should have been gone a long time ago. And given your behavior here recently, I think it only makes it more clear,” the senator concluded.
So, when those same questions he skipped out on in August came up again in today's hearing, while he couldn't simply fly away, he could essentially refuse to answer.
Which is exactly what he did...
"That would be a hard question for me to answer," Wray said when explicitly asked if there were any signs of Russian disinformation or influence. Johnson argued that the FBI should see his report as a source of verifiable, actionable information.
Senator Johnson also wanted to know if the FBI was behind the letter by 51 intelligence officials that most certainly interfered with the 2020 election.
"I'm not aware of any involvement by the FBI in what you're describing," Wray said.
But Senator Johnson wasn't buying that, either.
"This letter by 51 intelligence officials, this interfered in the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia or China ever could have hoped to accomplish," Johnson said. "You have to acknowledge that it has to be investigated. I have no faith that you will do so."
I know that holding the FBI accountable is a top issue to my Morning Bullets readers. How do you feel about Christopher Wray's very bad day? Reply back and let me know what you think, and what you think needs to happen next.
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