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Contrary to the assurances you made to gain confirmation to your position, the FBI has shown outright disdain for congressional oversight during your tenure. By doing so, it has hindered Congress in the exercise of its constitutional duty to oversee the actions of executive branch agencies and officials. You pledged under oath at your confirmation hearing to assist members of the Judiciary Committee and the entire Senate with oversight requests, and said you would do everything in your power to make sure the FBI is "appropriately responsive and prompt" in responding to these requests.4 You didn't live up to your word. Promises made, promises broken has become a recurrent theme under your leadership. One of the most egregious examples is the FBI's failure to provide basic information I requested more than two years ago related to the FBI's ongoing mishandling of sexual harassment claims made by

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the FBI's female employees. This request was not pulled out of a hat. It was based on credible whistleblower disclosures alleging hundreds of FBI employees had retired or resigned to avoid accountability for sexual misconduct. 5 Whistleblowers also alleged the FBI had disciplined senior officials less severely than their subordinates for this misconduct.6 In November 2022, I released internal FBI documents corroborating these disclosures.7 I and my staff ever since have asked repeatedly for information sufficient to determine how FBI handled these serious claims and how widespread the problem really is. The FBI, for its part, told the media it would provide the information to me.8 You personally told me at a December 5, 2023, Judiciary Committee hearing, when I confronted you with the FBI's blatant inaction, that you would check with your team and then follow up with me.9 Your Deputy Director, Paul Abbate, also publicly stated the FBI is serious about removing officials for sexual misconduct. 10 After a year since you made that pledge, over three years since Deputy Director Abbate's public comments, and after many more requests to FBI to provide this information, neither of you have followed up or followed through. This inexcusable delay and obstruction by you and Deputy Director Abbate has prevented Congress and the Judiciary Committee from addressing the shocking sexual misconduct at the FBI. This is a promise made and broken, on an issue of utmost importance.

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Go get him, Chuck!

Laying groundwork for getting fired.

Wray is an institutional believer, first and foremost. He sees his primary job as shielding it from scrutiny and negative PR, let alone oversight. He's a pathetic fraud, as such, as a leader at very best. At worst, he is guilty of treason and sedition.

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Wray is an institutional believer, first and foremost. He sees his primary job as shielding it from scrutiny and negative PR, let alone oversight. He's a pathetic fraud, as such, as a leader at very best. At worst, he is guilty of treason and sedition.

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Nobody writes an ESAD* letter better than Grassley. Eleven pages with copious footnotes. Reads like an criminal indictment.

*Eat S*** And Die

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Laying groundwork for getting fired.

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The shame is that they will have destroyed everything requested. People have to start going to jail. They absolutely believe they cannot be told what to do.

Has Wray ever come back and informed congress of the number of embedded assets/agents that were present with the crowd on Jan. 6th, 2021?

No?

Hopefully it will be known soon after Trump's sworn in (that's if the info. has not already been destroyed/erased).

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Laying groundwork for getting fired.

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The shame is that they will have destroyed everything requested. People have to start going to jail. They absolutely believe they cannot be told what to do.

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There are enough whistleblowers that they could very well have archived and preserved much of what Wray and his crooked Deputy, Abbate try to destroy.

Patel and Bondi could go to town on Wray and Abbate with the roadmap Grassley has laid out. I also think that DOJ Inspector General Horowitz needs to go for much the same reasons. All of that crap happened under his watch.

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Has Wray ever come back and informed congress of the number of embedded assets/agents that were present with the crowd on Jan. 6th, 2021?

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No. Can't talk about an "ongoing investigation." Don't want to give away sources and methods.

If scathing letters worked to slow the gears of inept/corrupt/misguided government, I could have the place cleaned up in a month.

Instead, I would just end up on Wray's watchlist.

Buh-bye!

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According to Kerry Picket at the Washington Times, Wray has decided that discretion is the better part of valor:

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FBI Director Christopher A. Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, The Washington Times has learned.

Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn't want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director's thinking.
"He's going to be gone at the inauguration. On or before the inauguration," a source said.

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Wray may have hoped that the Senate would ride to his rescue, but a letter from Chuck Grassley yesterday dashed those hopes. The Senate Judiciary ranking member -- and soon to be its chair -- sent a scathing letter to Wray and his chief deputy Paul Abbate that advised them to seek new jobs as soon as possible:

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Across 11 pages, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said that Wray, appointed in 2017 to replace James Comey, had run the agency no differently than his predecessor, comparing the 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago under Wray to the Russia investigation that prompted Trump to fire Comey.
Grassley also denounced what he called an "outright disdain for congressional oversight" during Wray's seven years leading the FBI.

"Rather than turn over a new leaf at the FBI, you've continued to read from the old playbook of weaponization, double standards, and a relentless game of hide-and-seek with the Congress," the Iowa Republican wrote.

The letter, addressed to Wray, amounts to the clearest sign yet that Senate Republicans are open to Trump's plan to reshuffle the Justice Department's leadership. Trump has nominated Kash Patel, a loyalist attorney, to take over the FBI when his second term begins in January.

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According to Picket, this letter was enough to convince Abbate to leave as well. The plan right now is for Abbate to stick around until May to help with the transition, but those are the plans from Wray and Abbate. Trump and Bondi may have very different plans indeed, and likely will work to oust the senior leadership as quickly as possible. It may take longer than May to get second-tier nominees for those posts confirmed by the Senate, but at least in Abbate's case, Grassley appears highly motivated to expedite those nominations in Judiciary.

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If scathing letters worked to slow the gears of inept/corrupt/misguided government, I could have the place cleaned up in a month.

Instead, I would just end up on Wray's watchlist.

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Has Wray ever come back and informed congress of the number of embedded assets/agents that were present with the crowd on Jan. 6th, 2021?

No?

Hopefully it will be known soon after Trump's sworn in (that's if the info. has not already been destroyed/erased).

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Has anyone set an over/under?

Mine would be 20.5.

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Trajan88 said:

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Has Wray ever come back and informed congress of the number of embedded assets/agents that were present with the crowd on Jan. 6th, 2021?

No?

Hopefully it will be known soon after Trump's sworn in (that's if the info. has not already been destroyed/erased).

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Has anyone set an over/under?

Mine would be 20.5.

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Won't shock me if that information is completely "missing." Nevermind that they knew and just kept withholding that information from Congress.

I would say over 20.5.

The fact that Wray wasn't immediately fired after skipping out on a Congressional Hearing in the midst of being asked about major improprieties because he wanted to take a government jet to his vacation and didn't want to be late for dinner was the biggest slap in the face imaginable to me. I mean there was no other way the man could literally say FU to the Congress and the American people than that. Then to top it off when he was later asked about it he said he was "required" to take the government jet when the reality is that he is only allowed to do so if there is a security concern.

Just an absolute scumbag.

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The fact that Wray wasn't immediately fired after skipping out on a Congressional Hearing in the midst of being asked about major improprieties because he wanted to take a government jet to his vacation and didn't want to be late for dinner was the biggest slap in the face imaginable to me. I mean there was no other way the man could literally say FU to the Congress and the American people than that. Then to top it off when he was later asked about it he said he was "required" to take the government jet when the reality is that he is only allowed to do so if there is a security concern.

Just an absolute scumbag.

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It was clear that Wray and his minions, to include people like Strzok and McCabe, believe that they answer to no one and that there is nothing anyone can do to clip their wings. Sadly, it has proven mostly true. They continue to get away with telling Americans to FO. Clearly the democrats and a lot of republicans protect them from accountability.

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Contrary to the assurances you made to gain confirmation to your position, the FBI has shown outright disdain for congressional oversight during your tenure. By doing so, it has hindered Congress in the exercise of its constitutional duty to oversee the actions of executive branch agencies and officials. You pledged under oath at your confirmation hearing to assist members of the Judiciary Committee and the entire Senate with oversight requests, and said you would do everything in your power to make sure the FBI is "appropriately responsive and prompt" in responding to these requests.4 You didn't live up to your word. Promises made, promises broken has become a recurrent theme under your leadership. One of the most egregious examples is the FBI's failure to provide basic information I requested more than two years ago related to the FBI's ongoing mishandling of sexual harassment claims made by

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the FBI's female employees. This request was not pulled out of a hat. It was based on credible whistleblower disclosures alleging hundreds of FBI employees had retired or resigned to avoid accountability for sexual misconduct. 5 Whistleblowers also alleged the FBI had disciplined senior officials less severely than their subordinates for this misconduct.6 In November 2022, I released internal FBI documents corroborating these disclosures.7 I and my staff ever since have asked repeatedly for information sufficient to determine how FBI handled these serious claims and how widespread the problem really is. The FBI, for its part, told the media it would provide the information to me.8 You personally told me at a December 5, 2023, Judiciary Committee hearing, when I confronted you with the FBI's blatant inaction, that you would check with your team and then follow up with me.9 Your Deputy Director, Paul Abbate, also publicly stated the FBI is serious about removing officials for sexual misconduct. 10 After a year since you made that pledge, over three years since Deputy Director Abbate's public comments, and after many more requests to FBI to provide this information, neither of you have followed up or followed through. This inexcusable delay and obstruction by you and Deputy Director Abbate has prevented Congress and the Judiciary Committee from addressing the shocking sexual misconduct at the FBI. This is a promise made and broken, on an issue of utmost importance.

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Go get him, Chuck!

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Trajan88 said:

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Has Wray ever come back and informed congress of the number of embedded assets/agents that were present with the crowd on Jan. 6th, 2021?

No?

Hopefully it will be known soon after Trump's sworn in (that's if the info. has not already been destroyed/erased).

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Has anyone set an over/under?

Mine would be 20.5.

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I'll take the over please.

Update, Wray retired on Sunday, and then just before (or after) Trump was sworn in his deputy POS Abbate suddenly retired, having nominally served as director for something like 24 hours.

Neither have received a blanket Biden pardon, to my knowledge. Mary McCord, DoJ NSD attorney responsible for much of the assorted coup attempts in Trump's first term, did get one. At the moment this clown is apparently the FBI director:

🚨Sources inside the @FBI are reporting that Rob Kissane is the Acting Director of the FBI. I'm told Kissane is a "total weasel" who would "gut his mother" for a chance to promote.

Sounds like Paul Abbate's retirement today was only PART of the plan. @SuspendablesUSA https://t.co/kcr824mh6K pic.twitter.com/h8On1dMqlE

— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) January 20, 2025

J6 fedsurection/color revolution ties to Abbate:

Abbate https://t.co/1vlYbVaoiY

— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) December 11, 2024

Rats fleeing is a great thing to see, but I certainly want to see competent leadership and a total house cleaning/transparency to say the least.