Christopher Wray swore up and down to Congress, under oath, that he’s not trying to cover up Biden family crimes. Nobody expected him to say a whole lot when he took the witness stand and he didn’t. As legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley points out, what he did say was lies and at least one of them can get him in trouble. Unfortunately, with the rats being in charge of guarding the cheese and all, what form that trouble will take remains a little vague. There’s another special counsel in the wings to independently probe him and his overseer, Merrick Garland. Also, both could be surgically defunded by the House. They can do that.
The maddening Wray experience
“Yesterday’s hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray,” Jonathan Turley writes, “was another maddening experience of faux contrition and the open evasion.” Everyone pretty much expected it but tuned in for the drama. There was no shortage of that at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 12. Professor Turley was watching closely and didn’t miss a trick.
“Wray apologized for violations that have already been established by courts or Congress.” It boils down to “sorry, we won’t get caught doing that again.” Not that they won’t do it, just that they’ll hide it better. It’s no wonder more people trusted the Federal Bureau of Instigation back when J. Edgar Hoover was running the place. Everyone knows what a perverted blackmailer he was.
Whenever the subject of any of the new scandals comes up, Turley notes, Wray “continued to use his favorite testimonial trilogy to block any questions.” He has three go-to responses calculated to keep him from perjury charges.
FBI Director Wray seems to confirm to Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany that Joe Biden is under criminal investigation by US Attorney David Weiss for Ukrainian Bribes, then abruptly backpedals.
Rep. Tiffany: Did Joe Biden take bribes?
Dir Wray: There's an ongoing investigation being… pic.twitter.com/neKSx7DRFB
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 12, 2023
“(1) lack of knowledge, (2) ongoing investigation, and (3) promises of later answers or briefings.” That “ongoing investigation” one blew up in his face.
Wisconsin lawmaker Tom Tiffany asked point blank if Joe Biden “took any payments from foreign nationals or companies while serving as vice president.” The FBI director dropped his favorite excuse by pointing to the “ongoing investigation” led by U.S. attorney for Delaware David Weiss and “referred all questions related to the matter to his office.”
Aha! “So the president is under investigation?” Tiffany quizzed. “I’m not going to confirm or speak to who is or isn’t under investigation for what,” Wray replied. “So he’s not under investigation?” Tiffany countered. “I didn’t say that either.” That was a close one.
One damning denial
There was one single question where Christopher Wray actually gave an informative and responsive answer. That’s when Democrat Eric Swalwell, accused of sleeping with a Chinese spy, threw the director an easy softball question about FBI Family Day. Other than that, he stuck with his script. Turley caught one important exception.
“Despite the near total lack of substance, Wray did make one surprising denial. He insisted that the FBI does not engage in censorship efforts, focuses only on ‘foreign disinformation,‘ and does not pressure companies to censor others.” The conservative half of America all screamed “BULLSH!T” at the exact same time.
“Those denials are not only directly contradicted by the recent 155 page opinion of a federal court and the Twitter Files, but a new release from the Twitter Files and journalist Matt Taibbi.” Wray testified under oath that “the FBI is not in the business of moderating content, or causing any social media company to suppress or censor.”
BREAKING: Christopher Wray 'Not Sure' There Were FBI Assets at Capitol on Jan. 6 https://t.co/lYAETCtMZM
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 12, 2023
He then added that “these companies are not under any pressure in making their own decisions whether the censor people or groups flagged by the FBI.” That statement, Turley insists, “is obviously false.” He personally testified about that to congress. “The FBI maintained a large operation of agents actively seeking the censorship of thousands, as discussed in my prior testimony.”
In the latest dump of the Twitter Files, Taibbi revealed an email thread where Twitter “immediately” suspended accounts “flagged by the FBI without investigation.” As Taibbi explained, “In one shot, you can see the FBI asks to remove three accounts, that gets forwarded to Twitter, Twitter immediately suspends them, the accounts.”
More importantly, Taibbi points out, “when there’s a glitch, and the accounts remain up, the FBI immediately writes back and says, what’s the deal? We just wrote to you, why is it still up? So, that shows the nature of the relationship basically that it’s not really a collaboration. It’s much more like somebody reporting to an authority.” Chris may want to hire one of Hunter Biden’s lawyers. “If it’s not connected with a crime, they’re just asking to take accounts down because they don’t like the profile of them.” Wray still has that smirk on his face and his boss at the Just Us Department just giggles, because Merrick Garland really does run this country.
