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.
Wray is a total Cesspool ‘gator. No a surprise.
Who promoted this ‘critter to Trump?
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.
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.
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.
Of course he does.
The question is why they are working Wray over and not the specific
hacks like Stzok.
[”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.
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.
Hillary instructed Huma to strip the classified headers so she could leak priviledged information.
FBI is corrupt AF.
You mean like James Comey? Exonerate first then 'investigate?'
FWIW - Gregg Jarrett said that it is a standard jury instruction that the two phrases are synonymous.
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...
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!
If they are pretty darn close to each other, then Clinton should have been charged.
Where are all those “good guys” that some FReepers say make up the rank and file?
They must be at the North Pole helping Santa make toys.
While Wray was not in charge of the FBI when Comey was there, it is clear he is unprepared to admit that not draining the part of the swamp he is now in charge of, and failing to see he needs to, will most of all continue to leave the agency tainted by politically biased people within it who have made decisions already in accord with their bias.
He needs to be like a new police commissioner handed a force with clearly too many bad apples in it. It is those bad apples, not criticism of them, that is tainting the FBI’s reputation. Trump needs to be clear to Wray - either you clean house or someone else will be in charge.
I like Trump but he has made some terribly bad choices for some key positions, and this is one of them. This guy even looks like a slime ball. Then we have Sessions who, without a doubt, has to be the worst AG when it comes to representing our President. Next up is Tillerson. I will stop there for now.
My take, as unpopular as it might be is that Wray is waiting for IG to light the fuse or call out the politically motivated actions. Wray is Trump’s guy, and if he comes in guns blazing to attempt to shut down the independent counsel, he will get labelled as a Trump stooge, and be viewed as biased.
the IC investigation is in a slow burn.....whats the issue with waiting a few more weeks to average the IG report / findings?
That said, I fully support Jordan, others and their efforts to light him up today.....
FBI like so many federal gub mint agencies have been destroyed by obammy and company bias.
No confidence in any aspect of this gub mint.
Wray was put in to ferret out and clean the swamp - if he takes the recent hints and does the right thing, he will be bolstered by Trump...if not, he is just filling the seat for a while. Has to hurt to have to air out the dirty laundry of such and organization if you are in charge of it but with trump in the WH, it is a prime time to do such with expectations that the agency will be boosted and the only casualties will be the bad guys - which will increase the morale of the day-to-day grinders.