It doesn’t sound like FBI Director Wray has much more time in the saddle after it appears he’s turned a blind eye to the Michael Flynn shenanigans that happened in early 2017. Republicans want to know why we have to learn about this from court filings in 2020 rather than from him:
NY POST – FBI Director Christopher Wray is under fire as his agency faces backlash over its handling of the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, according to reports.
Top House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee sent Wray a letter Monday demanding he answer for when he “personally knew of the FBI’s misconduct” with respect to the Flynn investigation, according to Axios.
The letter, written by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-La.), questions the motives of the embattled FBI chief, asking him why the public “is learning of the FBI’s misconduct with respect to LTG Flynn from court filings rather than from you.”
The news comes as frustration has mounted among President Trump and his allies with Wray’s lack of reaction to the newly released documents in Flynn’s case, in which the then-counterintelligence director of the bureau openly questioned if their “goal” was to “get him to lie.”
The four-page document included one page of handwritten notes, believed to be written by former FBI counterintelligence director Bill Priestap. The notes were taken in January 2017, following a meeting with former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, according to Fox News.
Priestap’s handwritten remarks were taken down on the heels of a critical interview with the newly installed national security adviser regarding Flynn’s contacts weeks earlier with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
It’s a really great question. Wray has been the FBI Director for three years now and he’s not said anything about this? Is he woefully incompetent or does he just not care?
Either way, it looks like the writing is on the wall for him as it’s being reported that Trump doesn’t trust him and “would love to replace” him…
President Trump is not happy with Wray’s handling of the situation and would love to replace him, three sources who have discussed the matter with the commander in chief told Axios over the weekend.
Trump “has never felt like Wray was his guy” and does not trust him to “change the culture” at the FBI, a source told the outlet.
The president, however, is unlikely to do so before the election, those sources said, citing advisers who don’t want to cause controversy by firing a second FBI director so close to the election.
Those advisers also are said to not have an obvious replacement in mind, someone who Trump considers an ally that could get confirmed by the Senate.
It sounds to me like the FBI needs its own version of AG Barr to really shake things up over there. But I guess we’ll have to wait until after November to see what happens…