Christopher Wray flat out lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He already had his personal Gulfstream 550 standing by to make an escape but his pressing engagement turned out to be a date with the fish at a snug little lake nestled in the Adirondacks.
Wray slithers off into the sunset
Alleged Director of the Federal Bureau of Instigation, Chris Wray, wasn’t about to take the abuse of high ranking oversight officials. They seemed bent out of shape because the FBI can only manage to find conservatives guilty of crimes. Democrats get a free pass on anything they want to do.
Every day, more and more powerful politicians are talking about defunding and disbanding the bureau, once and for all. At the very least, the Director has got to go. He doesn’t even know where to find a whole bunch of Afghan terrorists. “I can’t sit here right now and tell you we know where all of them are located at any given time,” he admitted. Oh and that little invasion of our southern border isn’t classified by the bureau as a “national security threat.”
Republicans, including conservative icon Senator Charles Grassley, had expected another round of questions on Thursday, August 4, but Wray claimed the need to adjourn early. Grassley begged, pleaded and cajoled for “just an extra 21 minutes.”
Holy shit great find @mirandadevine "The luxury FBI Gulfstream Wray uses was recorded on Flightradar24 making the one hour and 12 minute flight later that afternoon to bucolic Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, which happens to be a favorite summer destination since his childhood."
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) August 8, 2022
Nope, sorry, can’t do it. The director lied. He ducked “the committee’s constitutional obligation to ensure he answers questions under oath to ensure the FBI complies with the law and is accountable to the American people.”
A couple days later, the public learned exactly what was “so urgent that he had to leave.”
Things might have gone a lot differently last week if Senator Grassley had known Wray was “taking a long weekend in the Adirondacks where his family has a summer home.” In case you missed the hearing, here’s how it went down.
Isn’t it a private jet?
For three and a half hours, Director Wray ducked, dodged, bobbed and weaved. He managed to stall, delay, say nothing and blame all the silence on pending investigations which will never end, because that means actual criminal charges against someone.
Grassley got a surprise during one of the breaks. “We just heard a half hour ago about you having to leave at 1:30. We were going to have seven minutes [each] for first round [questions and] three-minute second rounds. I’ve got seven people on my side of the aisle want their additional three minutes. Is there any reason we couldn’t accommodate them for 21 minutes?” Yep, there’s a reason.
That’s when Senator Grassley pointed out that “Wray has a private jet and can leave any time.” He didn’t even stop smirking as he replied, “Senator, I had a flight that I’m supposed to be high-tailing it to outta here, and I had understood that we were going to be done at 1:30, so that’s how we ended up where we are.”
He wanted to high tail out alright. “If it’s your business trip you’ve got your own plane. Can’t it wait a while?” Nope.
“To be honest, I tried to make my break as fast I could to get right back out here.” Even so, Grassley noted, he “took more than five minutes.”
Wray “laughed and the silence that followed only emphasized the disrespect to all senators, but especially to Grassley, the president pro tempore emeritus of the Senate.” We’ll see who has the last laugh now.
