Posted on 01/12/2020 6:33:49 AM PST by EyesOfTX
This guy has got to go. – Some folks just need firing, and FBI Director Christopher Wray is the poster child for that reality. The FBI was a raging dumpster fire under James Comey, and nothing has changed under the worthless apparatchik who was appointed by President Trump on the advice of Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions to succeed him.
If anything, Wray appears to want to just keep stoking the flames of that dumpster fire to higher levels, which he managed to succeed at doing with two moves late this past week.
First, Wray filed an inexcusable response to the December demand by lead FISA Court judge Rosemary Collyer (who has since resigned) that the FBI take action to prevent future abuses of the FISA warrant process. Collyer’s letter was issued in reaction to the December 11 report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, which revealed massive wrongdoing by higher-ups in the Comey-era FBI in their efforts to spy on the Trump Campaign, Trump Transition Team and Trump Administration.
Wray’s proposed “solution” to the blatant abuse of process by myriad FBI officials is to…wait for it…mandate more training. Yeah, just what you’d expect from a useless bureaucrat who would be more at home in some corporate Human Resources department than in leading what is supposed to be the nation’s premier law enforcement agency.
Making matters worse, the letter sent to the FISA Court on Friday was signed by Wray and…wait for it again…utterly corrupt FBI lawyer Dana Boente, who actually signed one of the four FISA applications that was used to facilitate the Comey FBI’s spying operation. You seriously cannot make this stuff up:
As if that weren’t despicable and indefensible enough, Wray compounded this insult to basic public integrity by appointing former assistant attorney general for national security David S. Kris to oversee the FBI’s fancy new training program. Kris, if anything, is even more corrupt than Boente, a guy with Spygate basically tatooed on his forehead.
This is a guy who, in addition to being a noted Obama loyalist, is also associated with the scumbags at Lawfare, the group that has provide the contract lawyers who have planned, managed and driven the Schiff/Pelosi/Nadler impeachment scam.
As reported by the Daily Caller:
Kris was also among the many pundits dismissive of Republican allegations that the FBI mishandled information in the Steele dossier. One of Kris’s main targets was Nunes, a California Republican who relentlessly pursued information from the FBI about the Trump-Russia probe.
In his March 1, 2018, essay at Lawfare, Kris wholeheartedly defended the FBI’s actions in the Trump-Russia probe, while criticizing Nunes over a memo he released Feb. 2, 2018, laying out a list of alleged problems with the FBI’s rationale to surveil Page.
Kris asserted that Nunes “falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court.” He also questioned whether Nunes and other Republicans would “face any consequences for their dishonesty.”
“The Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy,” wrote Kris, who is now a consultant at Culper Partners and frequent guest on MSNBC.
Kris went as far as entertaining the possibility, first proposed by Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, that “Nunes might be prosecuted for obstruction of justice.”
Kris also wrote that the memo’s central claim that the FBI misled the FISC about Christopher Steele “was not true.”
Oh. Ok.
But, in a transparently fake move designed to justify receiving his assignment from Wray, Kris has had a sudden fake “change of heart”:
Kris has acknowledged since the release of the IG report that the FBI committed some “significant and serious” errors in its Carter Page FISA applications. He also conceded in a Lawfare essay published Dec. 23, 2o19, that Nunes’s assertion that the FBI engaged in irregular behavior was “correct.”
This is a blatant middle finger by Wray to President Trump, and the President understands that, as evidenced by this tweet issued on Saturday:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump “FBI Director apologizes for FISA Errors (of which there were far to many to be a coincidence!).” @FoxNews Chris, what about all of the lives that were ruined because of the so-called “errors?” Are these “dirty cops” going to pay a big price for the fraud they committed?
124K 7:38 AM - Jan 11, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 49K people are talking about this The President well knows that no FBI dirty cops will pay any real price so long as Christopher Wray remains ensconced as the FBI Director. Wray not only has no intention at all of putting out the agency’s raging dumpster fire, he is in fact dedicated to stoking its flames.
The only solution here is for the President to fire the man. Once this impeachment nonsense has been dealt with in the Senate, doing that needs to be Job 1 at the White House.
That is all.
DJT will fire Wray...and he should...Wray is just another liberal butt sucker...
Yeah, Wray is an absolute deep state punk, and it baffles me why Trump keeps him on. I thought Trump was a guy who relishes firing people. Does he think this is totally acceptable? Arresting this guy in the middle of the night while he’s sleeping, storming his house with SWAT like he’s some major terrorist? All they had to do is ask Stone to turn himself in, but instead Wray sets up this whole performance SOLELY to benefit f*ckin CNN. Look at this crap, this is what they sent into Stones house, no different from the raid on the OBL compound, arresting the guy like a terrorist because he wouldn’t legitimize a hoax for Mueller. You think they’d ever do this sh*t to Hillary? I am SO sick of the Republican party, I really am, that this kind of garbage goes on and they do NOTHING!!
Wray is in a Senate confirmed position. Like Sessions he will be gone the day after the election.
Unfortunately, the GOP did do something: passed the Mueller Coup Protection act. As long as the GOP base continues to vote for the coup enabling GOP they see no need to change their behavior. The GOPe Never Trump obstructionist behavior will only get worse in Trump’s second term. Guaranteed.
Note that Chris Christie best pal Wray was a full partner at King & Spalding, the law-lobbyist firm that just hired Rod Rosenstein, who covered up the crimes by the FBI. Who thinks this is a coincidence?
I’d sure like to hear more about how he was appointed. Obviously the judge didn’t find him on Ziprecruiter.
According to the Daily Caller link, Kris was already serving as an Amici Curiae to the FISC since March 2016.
https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/amici-curiae
If Trump doesn't quickly fix this mistake by firing Wray, I'll be disappointed.
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