Despite all the hand-wringing and theatrics of the last few weeks, I’m sure Wray always knew better than anyone else that this memo is going to be released.
I suspect you’re right and I’m sure Wray knows he has to offer at least a perfunctory defense of the Bureau. He needs to clean house, acknowledge the Bureau’s sins and throw the Bureau at the mercy of the people at some point.
I, for one, would like to see the Bureau completely disbanded. It has become a KGB or Gestapo-like secret police force that answers to no one. We are inclined to think of this abuse of the FISA process and the weaponization of our intelligence capabilities as a one-off occurrence. It isn’t, and the publicly-known abuses and screw-ups of the FBI don’t begin to compare to those that haven’t seen the light of day.
I’m sure the democrats told him what’s in the memo. I think Wray knows he’s not in trouble.