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FBI Director Christopher Wray defends agency after Trump's attacks
CNN ^ | 2017-12-07

Posted on 12/07/2017 3:03:45 PM PST by jerod

Washington (CNN)FBI Director Christopher Wray defended his agency Thursday in his first public appearance since President Donald Trump said the bureau is "in tatters."

Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, asked Wray about what he's doing to clear the ranks of the FBI by people "tainted" by bias.

"I think these matters are being looked at, as they should be, by somebody outside the FBI, and when those findings come to me, I will take appropriate action if necessary," Wray said, referencing the ongoing inspector general investigation. "The first thing I'm doing is respecting the outside independent investigations that are underway. ... My preference is to be one of these people who is not an act first and ask questions later guy."....

GOP Rep. Steve King, of Iowa, pressed Wray on the decision to change former FBI Director James Comey's statement on Clinton's email investigation to say Clinton had been "extremely careless" rather than "grossly negligent." He was referencing how an early draft of a memo by Comey described the behavior of Clinton as "grossly negligent" for her handling of classified information, though Comey in his July 5, 2016, public statement didn't use that term.

"Gross negligence is the language in the statute I believe," Wray said. "But I believe also that almost anybody who grabbed a thesaurus would say that gross negligence and extremely careless are pretty darn close to each other."

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"Gross negligence is the language in the statute I believe," Wray said. "But I believe also that almost anybody who grabbed a thesaurus would say that gross negligence and extremely careless are pretty darn close to each other."

Actually, they are not that 'close' at all... If they were then Hillary should have obviously been charged with a crime, and if she were not, then there would have been hell to pay since that 'is' the language in the statute.

Not sure what Christopher Wray's intentions are, but if Andrew Weissmann from the Department of Justice, Mueller's lieutenant and ardent admire of Sally Yates the AG that Trump fired and Peter Strzok, an FBI agent who is obviously a Clinton lap dog aren't fired and removed from Mueller's team pronto, then you can expect Trump to start swinging and making some serious blows to this tainted politically motivated inquisition.

1 posted on 12/07/2017 3:03:45 PM PST by jerod
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To: jerod

Wray is a total Cesspool ‘gator. No a surprise.

Who promoted this ‘critter to Trump?


2 posted on 12/07/2017 3:10:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: jerod

Well spoken and slick. “...gross negligence and extremely careless are pretty darn close to each other...”

Politicians who are not familiar with biology can’t distinguish slime eels from lampreys. The swamp is inhabited by many non-native species.


3 posted on 12/07/2017 3:20:06 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: jerod

extremely careless is when I chip the family heirloom china. Gross negligence is when I leave the top secret war plan on the bus. Treason is when I sell it to a Russian spy.


4 posted on 12/07/2017 3:25:01 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: jerod

Mr. Wray is an attorney and knows full well that the law is technical and turns on precise definitions of language.

That he tries to submerge it all in fuzzy equivalences shows he’s equivocating himself.


5 posted on 12/07/2017 3:26:40 PM PST by Regulator
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To: jerod

Of course he does.

The question is why they are working Wray over and not the specific
hacks like Stzok.


6 posted on 12/07/2017 3:27:13 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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Wray is another swamp Rat. He got a LOT got Rat votes to confirm, when l saw that l knew Trump made another bad appointment. The bad picks and the Obongo holdovers have really hurt. He’s doing a great job but these things have caused many problems.


7 posted on 12/07/2017 3:31:15 PM PST by gibsonguy
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[”Gross negligence is the language in the statute I believe,” Wray said. “But I believe also that almost anybody who grabbed a thesaurus would say that gross negligence and extremely careless are pretty darn close to each other.”]

Spoken like someone who would protect Hillary. At least it sounds like that to me.


8 posted on 12/07/2017 3:31:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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“Wray is another swamp Rat”

I continue to be shocked at how dreadful many of Trump’s appointmens are. Really, really awful. I’ve always believed he had a sixth sense about “reading” people and choosing the best of the best. So not true.


9 posted on 12/07/2017 3:36:23 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Free men are not equal, and Equal men are not free".)
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To: jerod

Not close at all, because one (grossly negligent) is the legal definition that constitutes a crime, and the other (extremely careless) is just a personal opinion.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 3:37:12 PM PST by livius
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Hillary instructed Huma to strip the classified headers so she could leak priviledged information.

FBI is corrupt AF.


11 posted on 12/07/2017 3:38:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Regulator

Throughout he almost visibly recoiled at conservative Qs but was warm and sunny with liberals.


12 posted on 12/07/2017 3:38:43 PM PST by txhurl (Banana Republicans, as far as the eye can see)
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To: livius

Grossly negligent implies accidental, Hillary was hellbent on doing what lobbyists wanted.


13 posted on 12/07/2017 3:39:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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Hillary was neither negligent nor careless.

It was a calculated move to hide the pay-for-play of The Clinton Foundation and her other antics.

Then, she and her goons destroyed evidence of their crimes; multiple times.

Those that covered for her are complicit in those crimes.


14 posted on 12/07/2017 3:40:50 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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... My preference is to be one of these people who is not an act first and ask questions later guy."....

You mean like James Comey? Exonerate first then 'investigate?'

15 posted on 12/07/2017 3:43:58 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Paladin2; Donald J Trump

I am going to tell you one more time don’t act silly on FR do a search on Wray, he is an outsider, saying all he can to put the bait out...


16 posted on 12/07/2017 3:44:49 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump, Greatest election Ever.)
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"Gross negligence is the language in the statute I believe," Wray said. "But I believe also that almost anybody who grabbed a thesaurus would say that gross negligence and extremely careless are pretty darn close to each other."

FWIW - Gregg Jarrett said that it is a standard jury instruction that the two phrases are synonymous.

17 posted on 12/07/2017 3:47:13 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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if it wasn’t important then why change it?

it was the language in the statute and changing it would muddy the waters for non-lawyers...


18 posted on 12/07/2017 3:51:13 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

Wray acts like a Deep Swamp critter, has a history as a Deep Swamp critter, but is not a Deep swamp critter?

Wray is that you?


19 posted on 12/07/2017 3:51:47 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: jerod

We finally get the People’s President, and this Swampster is the best we can find for FBI Director? Shut the whole thing down and if needed, hire young grads from Christian universities, Mennonites, and the Amish!


20 posted on 12/07/2017 3:54:10 PM PST by Kalamata
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