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Here's How Elise Stefanik Turned the FBI Director Into a Stammering Mess
townhall.com ^ | 3/9/2023 1400 hrs est | Spencer Brown

Posted on 03/10/2023 8:01:33 AM PST by rktman

On Thursday morning, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) held a hearing featuring FBI Director Christopher Wray, among other representatives from the Biden administration, to learn about threats to U.S. National Security. But when it came time for Wray to answer questions from House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the FBI director suddenly found himself at a loss for words.

Noting that another House subcommittee had made some 50 different requests for information and documents related to the FBI's operations, Stefanik explained that to date, the FBI had still not complied with those long-outstanding requests. "The FBI is accountable to Congress, and by extension the American people," Stefanik reminded Wray, adding that responding to such standard oversight requests are the "bare minimum" the FBI is expected to do.

Stefanik also noted that the FBI had not made a witness available to another House committee on Thursday, apparently because Wray was appearing before HPSCI, and asked Wray to "commit to sending a witness before the next hearing." That's where Wray clammed up.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: christopherwray; elisestefanik; fbi; nosale
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Nice job Ms Stefanik. Unfortunately once chrissy walks out of the room, your comments vanish. They will still stonewall and find ways to not comply. Court orders? Pffftttt! Subpoenas? Pffffttt! Congressional requests? Pfffffttt! It is their SOP to not comply.
1 posted on 03/10/2023 8:01:33 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

She sounds like one of us.


2 posted on 03/10/2023 8:09:21 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rktman

Ms. Stefanik is very sharp. Does she have RINO tendencies?


3 posted on 03/10/2023 8:10:17 AM PST by 43north (America doesn't need an election. We need an exorcism.)
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To: rktman

The FBI has long been a rogue and unaccountable agency and it is time to defund it and end it.

It’s also time to put an end to the ill-named Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the BATFE, the IRS, and etc.


4 posted on 03/10/2023 8:12:34 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET
"We will work with you to make people available,"

Weaselly.

5 posted on 03/10/2023 8:13:45 AM PST by glorgau
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m writing her in for President.


6 posted on 03/10/2023 8:18:31 AM PST by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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To: rktman

Meaningless theatrics from Wray, one of the worst and maybe the worstest of the many worst appontments Trump made during his hamstrung Presidency.


7 posted on 03/10/2023 8:20:07 AM PST by Quentin Quarantino
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get some fellow congress critters and the press and GOTO the FIB OFFICE and demand them...

then let the FIB deal wi the optics of denying them


8 posted on 03/10/2023 8:20:28 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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POS Wray has that permanent F___K face smirk on his stink face as he lies to her. He knows they will sit in that room and do the same thing on the 28th as today and nothing will happen to him.

Our country is broken. The crooks are in charge.


9 posted on 03/10/2023 8:24:48 AM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
She sounds like one of us.

She's the Congresswoman just to the North of me. She's fighting to get info on a 20+ dead limo crash a few years ago. The owner of the company with a faulty limo was, wait for it, AN FBI INFORMANT. So he was allowed to escape to Pakistan, and Elise wants answers.

10 posted on 03/10/2023 8:25:32 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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..Court orders? Pffftttt! Subpoenas? Pffffttt! Congressional requests? Pfffffttt!

broccoli? Pffffttt! Bean burritos? Pfffftttt! Sauerkraut? Pfffttt!!!

11 posted on 03/10/2023 8:26:50 AM PST by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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To: MeganC

“The FBI has long been a rogue and unaccountable agency and it is time to defund it and end it.

It’s also time to put an end to the ill-named Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the BATFE, the IRS, and etc.”

Comment of the DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12 posted on 03/10/2023 8:27:22 AM PST by rellic
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To: rktman

Make sure Wray doesn’t fly our private jet up toe Saranac Lake this Summer, which is part of her district.


13 posted on 03/10/2023 8:27:42 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Yep....at the end of the day he’s still director and nothing changesg.

If all deep state has to do is tolerate harsh words all day long in trade for furthering their agenda I’m sure behind closed doors they’re laughing hysterically. I k own I would be .....last time I saw a rope a dope like this Ali was in the ring. 😏


14 posted on 03/10/2023 8:28:03 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Meaningless theatrics from Wray

I agree, it's like he was giving her the middle finger while answering, unacceptable.

15 posted on 03/10/2023 8:28:38 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Chode
" get some fellow congress critters and the press and GOTO the FIB OFFICE and demand them..."

Chode :"then let the FIB deal wi the optics of denying themget some fellow congress critters and the press and GOTO the FIB OFFICE and demand them...
then let the FIB deal wi(th) the optics of denying them "

If no compliance, .. then defund them until they do comply.
At least it will get their attention !

16 posted on 03/10/2023 8:29:15 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

100%


17 posted on 03/10/2023 8:34:11 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

Bring back J. Edgar Hoover.


18 posted on 03/10/2023 8:36:19 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: rktman

bkmk


19 posted on 03/10/2023 8:42:30 AM PST by linMcHlp
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At what point is this just contempt? If you have endless investigations as the reason why you can’t comment on an “ongoing investigation” then you can’t be held accountable, which is unacceptable.

This guy needs to feel the heat of being behind bars.


20 posted on 03/10/2023 8:45:04 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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