FBI director in 'hot seat'
as GOP demands reforms
The Hill,
by
Jordain Carney
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
5/9/2020 9:08:07 AM
FBI Director Christopher Wray is coming under fire from Republicans and allies of President Trump. GOP lawmakers, pundits and conservative figures are signaling growing frustration with Wray over concerns that he has not moved quickly enough to "clean house" within the FBI, a frequent target of criticism for Trump. Their concerns are linked to the FBI investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/9/2020 9:42:55 AM (No. 405829)
As others have observed, I think General Flynn would make an excellent FBI director, if they could get him to take the job.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Muguy 5/9/2020 9:50:54 AM (No. 405846)
Hold Wray's feet to the fire and the fire him.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/9/2020 10:09:48 AM (No. 405880)
"Not calling for removal" and "Needs to show more energy" is simply not going to cut it. That train left the station yesterday. S** or get off the pot. is more like it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2020 11:27:21 AM (No. 406003)
Too bad that seat wasn't made by Martin-Baker.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BillW. 5/9/2020 11:28:53 AM (No. 406006)
A little late.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Pearson365 5/9/2020 11:49:58 AM (No. 406034)
Why did the Trump WH trust slimey Rod Rosenstein’s recommendation to appoint Stonewall Wray as FBI Director? There is nothing trust worthy about Rosenstein, the Asst AG who offered to wear a wire to show Trump was mentally unfit. And who hired Mueller to lead a open ended, ill defined collusion investigation when there was no evidence of a crime. And who signed a false FISA warrant request to spy on President Trump?
Wray has to be fired, but please don’t hire another retired military officer like Flynn or a former Bush 1 or 2 official since even the best are still rooted in the Deep State. The FBI needs a true outsider to restore its Obama damaged image.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/9/2020 12:35:15 PM (No. 406080)
Wray would probably be OK if all that was needed was to spiff up the FBI's paperwork. There is a, unfortunately, a fundamental problem with the FBI that its purpose and function could be so corrupted as to use its counter intelligence arm to spy on a presidential campaign and then the presidency PLUS, prior to that, allow FBI "contractors" to spy generally on political opponents, provide false evidence to the FISA court, launch unwarranted criminal investigations that they used in an attempt to coerce testimony against the president, and other chicanery. This is a severe structural problem in the FBI and Wray does NOT have the seriousness to appreciate or fix the problem.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/9/2020 12:50:52 PM (No. 406104)
Again, I say shut down the FBI, replace it with a new agency, and for those FBI agents who want to workl for the new agency, make them undergo polygraphs, and then retrain them.
the FBI has been running on fumes ever since J. Edgar Hoover died, and his secretary burned his files.
hoover was a genius at gaining favorable pu8blicity for the Bureau, working closely with TV and Hollywood producers - TV series, movies all extolled the virtues opf the agents.
Under Hoover, only law school graduates and accountants were hired as agents. That all changed over time, and I'm not sure what the current requirements are.
Herr mueller and coward Comey have done great damage to the Bureau, and that's a shame.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter 5/9/2020 1:32:31 PM (No. 406158)
Yes #3, I even heard my Texas Senator dance and deflect when pressed on WHICH SPECIFIC REFORMS and if lawbreakers should be indicted and jailed like anyone else would be. We will not be fooled by all the talk anymore. Remember, there are oversight committees over the FBI, right? It sounds like they did a mighty sorry job. No wonder our GOP lawmakers do not want fairness and justice applied to the crooks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldoc 5/9/2020 2:14:28 PM (No. 406195)
He should have been replaced months ago. PDJT hangs on to these left over culls way too long. I nominate dan bongino.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 5/9/2020 2:15:41 PM (No. 406196)
Who will clean out this nest of vipers?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
curious1 5/9/2020 2:24:47 PM (No. 406206)
#11, I'd be happy to be the hatchet man.
But I expect 99.9999% of the scum would no longer be agents and would be footnoted lists in the history books when I finished. And it wouldn't take that long. First pass would be everyone even peripherally involved in the pogrom they launched. Then everybody that should have known about it and did nothing. And that's just for starters. The waterboarding and 'vigorous' interrogations can take place at black sites off-shore. Then the firing squads or gallows get employed.
And then bring in a fully vetted new director to direct the one (if they're lucky) employee (probably from the mailroom) who would be left.
If you aren't even willing to consider the above extremity, then you'll never clean up the problems in DC. They are rotten to the core. And there's tons of money to attract such rottenness.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/9/2020 5:00:17 PM (No. 406326)
I hope nobody is waiting for Lindsey Graham to hold hearings on this. If that is the case the sun will begin to dim before that ever happens.
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