Posted on 03/04/2021 6:13:18 AM PST by SJackson
Christopher Wray will spearhead Dems’ offensive against Trump supporters in the wake of January 6.
“We have not to date seen any evidence of anarchist violent extremists or people subscribed to Antifa in connection with the sixth. That doesn’t mean we’re not looking, and we’ll continue to look, but at the moment we have not seen that.”
That was FBI boss Christopher Wray testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Wray claimed the FBI doesn’t care about ideology, but he left more than a reasonable doubt about how hard the FBI had been looking.
According to a January 13 FBI affidavit, self-proclaimed racial justice advocate Earle Sullivan, aka John Sullivan, “did knowingly enter or remain in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, or did knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engage in disorderly or disruptive conduct.”
As The Intercept explained, “the FBI determined that Sullivan was not just an observer but a participant in the riot, based on a review of nearly 90 minutes of raw footage of the raid that he recorded on his phone and posted on YouTube.” Wray likely had the FBI looking for rioters in Antifa T-shirts. On the other hand, the FBI boss is experienced at overlooking events of significance.
Back in 2019, attorney General William Barr told a Senate panel that “spying did occur” against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. As the Associated Press reported, Barr “seemed to be alluding to a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on a former Trump associate.”
Christopher Wray disagreed, telling senators that “spying” was “not the term I would use.” As the FBI boss explained, “lots of people have different colloquial phrases. I believe that the FBI is engaged in investigative activity, and part of investigative activity includes surveillance activity of different shapes and sizes, and to me the key question is making sure that it’s done by the book, consistent with our lawful authorities.” For former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, it was a joke.
“There was absolutely no reason to play this game,” Bongino told Fox News. “Christopher Wray is one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in the cosmos. He had the ability yesterday to re-establish faith in the FBI and come out and say listen, a very simple answer.” Instead he chose to play “the Comey euphemisms game.”
The “composite character” David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, picked Comey to head the FBI in 2013. The president also picked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to succeed him, and Comey, a longtime Clinton crony, deployed the FBI in that cause.
Clinton was laundering bribes through the Clinton Foundation and keeping classified information on an unsecured server. Those are serious criminal offenses but Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against the former First Lady, who destroyed more than 30,000 emails under subpoena. It was perhaps the most blatant political fix in American history.
Comey was a key player in the Midyear Exam and Crossfire Hurricane operations and said it was “nonsense” that the FBI had spied on Trump. For Comey, there were only “mistakes and negligence” by the FBI, and nothing criminal involved.
After the report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Wray cited the need for “thoughtful, meaningful remedial action,” not any criminal charges. And as Wray told reporters, he would not use the term “spying,” for the anti-Trump operations. Trump tweeted that “With that kind of attitude, he will never be able to fix the FBI, which is badly broken despite having some of the greatest men & women working there!” Ivy Leaguer Christopher Wray was never one of those rank-and-file FBI agents and neither was James Comey.
Comey, FBI counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok, and high-level DOJ official spearheaded the attempt to take down a duly elected president of the United States. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was the only one to face criminal charges, and he got off with a tap on the wrist from judge James Boasberg. As it happens, Boasberg is also presiding judge of the FISA court Democrats deployed to spy on Trump associates.
Democrats attempted to impeach Trump even after he left office, and the January 6 riot fuels their ongoing jihad against Trump and his supporters. Led by Joe Biden, Democrats have now branded them as domestic terrorists. For Biden AG pick Merrick Garland, terrorist acts are only committed during the day, like the proceedings of January 6. For his part, Wray feigns an even-handed approach.
“We don’t care what ideology motivates somebody,” Wray told senators Tuesday. “We don’t care whether it’s left, right, up, down, diagonal or any other way. If the ideology is motivating violence and violates federal law we’re coming after it.” Again Wray leaves room for reasonable doubt.
The FBI boss kept rather quiet during riots across the nation in of 2020, headed by the Antifa-BLM axis. If the live-streamed murder of police officer David Dorn drew any outrage from Wray, nothing appears in the record. On Wray’s watch, the FBI is also stonewalling the homicide investigation of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney, gunned down last year in California.
Clinton crony James Comey spearheaded FBI operations against Donald Trump. Comey crony Christopher Wray will spearhead FBI operations against Trump supporters. Trump saw it coming back in 2019. “They’re not after me, they’re after you,” he said. “I’m just in the way.”
Bill Gates and MIT Unveil Quantum Dots to Mark Children
Why stop with children. Adults should have a tatoo branding gunowners. Tatoos could carry info on party affiliation.
The FBIAS has become the American Stasi.
Yes kiddies..it is 1984
It is obvious that Trump did not clean house at the FBI, so sad for this Nation.
Mr. Wray is walking in the footsteps of James Comey, step by step. Mr. Wray is totally compromised as an objective administrator.
The FBI was corrupt since its founding. It’s gotten worse since then.
The American GESTAPO.
Trump failed in not unloading this piece of garbage from the start
We tend to forget power corrupts, as the founders and political thinkers for millennia understood.
That's not the beginning of this elitist garbage. "Wray attended the Buckley School,in New York City and the private boarding school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
The guy is a Bush-Republican born and bred.
So, why didn't he?
1-Wray has dirt on too many key people.
2-There is nobody reliable to replace him with.
3-Any new replacement could not fire enough top tier management to change the culture. (Obama made sure of that.)
And, of course, this is widely covered by the MSM . . .
TRUST WRAY
The next conservative President will have to vacate the entire FBI.
Embedded in US law, the tax-paid FBI is prohibited from acting like the nation’s Secret Police (a Nazi-like GESTAPO)
w/ the ability to use tax dollars to investigate an American citizen just because the tax-paid FBI Agent was cued in
that someone in high places does not like what a taxpayer wrote or said. Now, reporting by ace investigative reporter,
John Solomon, lets us know a tax-funded FBI Secret Police is a free Nation’s New Reality.
CIRCA 2019-—The NY Times appears to admit — and even defend — Obama’s spying on Trump...
NYPOST.COM ^ | may 4, 2019 | Michael Goodwin / FR Posted on 6/15/2019, 7:16:44 AM by Liz
The NYT is reporting Obama’s FBI sent a “cloaked investigator” to London to meet with Trump aide George Papadopoulos in Sept 2016.....spinning news designed to protect deep-state sources. AG Barr’s promise to investigate the investigators spooked the Deep State. The result is news with a “modified limited hangout” approach, where fragments are presented as revelations while the full picture remains artfully hidden. The NYT story repeatedly suggests Azra Turk is an FBI agent, but doesn’t say so directly probably means she isn’t.
Reporter Adam Goldman, told CNN they called Turk a government investigator “for a reason, and I’m going to leave it at that”.....said the deep-state errand boy. Naturally, all sources are anonymous, identified generally as “people familiar with the operation.” My guess is they include Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe and other dirty cops worried they are in Barr’s crosshairs. They should worry, especially about Barr’s probe into leaks. There is no question that FBI officials were among the same reporters’ sources all along as the Times painted Trump as a Russian agent. Which is why the NYT assures readers there was nothing amiss in the Obama-ordered spying, arguing that the existence of an “operation aimed at a presidential campaign” reveals “the level of alarm inside the FBI” over Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 election......an odd and extremely biased way to describe the possibly illegal effort by the Obama admin to spy on the presidential campaign of the opposition. Imagine how that sentence would be written if a Republican president spied on a Democratic candidate.
And why are the reporters certain the spying was legitimate and not a plot to stop Trump from being elected? Because their sources say so, making this a powerful example of why the Times was wrong to abolish its standards. (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The NYT’s seems certain Obama’s spying was legitimate and NOT a plot to stop Trump from being elected.
(cue hysterical laughter here)....BUT.....if the NYT’s knows this to be true, why didnt journos go after the perps....
....the Russians? Instead, they went after Trump and his campaign apparat.
REALITY CHECK: The scared-stiff Obama dictatorship feared Trump. The lawless Obama had plenty to hide. They were counting on Hillary to sweep it all under the rug. Obama ordered (A) the entire US intel apparat (created to protect American safety and security), and, (B) suck-up Eric Holder’s DOJ, to spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition and the Trump presidency.
“Trust Wray” said the Qballs.
L
Now that the Democrats have learned to steal Elections and have been given permission to steal elections by both the Republican Party and Supreme Court, there will be no more Conservative Presidents.
CIRCA 2019 FBI Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying
RealClear Investigations ^ | 4/12/19 | Eric Felten
FR Posted on 4/12/2019, 5:26:24 PM by workerbee
* * SNIP * *
From the end of 2015 to the end of 2018, Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI’s global counterintelligence efforts.
In that role, he managed both of the bureau’s most politically sensitive investigations: the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information and the probe into whether Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
Priestap’s testimony provides rare insight into the attitudes and thoughts of officials who launched the Russia probe and the probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose final report is expected to be released very soon.
More important, his testimony contains extensive indications of wrongdoing, including that the FBI and DoJ targeted Trump and did so with information it made no effort to verify. It paints a portrait of the Obama-era bureau as one that was unconcerned with political interference in investigations and was willing to enlist the help of close foreign allies to bring down its target. And, perhaps presaging a defense to Barr’s claim that American officials had spied on the Trump campaign, it showcases the euphemisms that can be used to disguise “spying.”
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So there we have it with all the decisive logic of a Socratic dialogue: The FBI could not possibly have spied on the Trump campaign because bureau lingo includes neither the noun “spy” nor the verb “to spy.” Whatever informants may have been employed, whatever tools of surveillance may have been utilized, the FBI did not spy on the Trump campaign – didn’t spy by definition, as the bureau doesn’t use the term (except, of course, to describe the very same activities when undertaken by foreigners).
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
No cabinet official could serve without the Advice and Consent of the Senate. Which means Mitch McConnell had veto power over every single Presidential nominee.
With that being the case, it's a wonder he wound up with any allies within the Executive Branch.
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