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Bill O’Reilly: House Blows Opportunity to Pin Down FBI Director Christopher Wray
The long history of corruption and politicization of the FBI
Edited by: TJVNews.com
Former Fox News talk show host and media pundit, Bill O’Reiily had much to say on his Thursday broadcast on the testimony given by FBI Director Christopher Wray in front of the House Judiciary Committee hearing. O’Reilly said that he was extremely annoyed to see Wray walk away from the hearing “unscathed” and opined that Wray was less than truthful. He also suggested that the questions that Wray had to field lacked teeth and that information sought was not offered.
While O’Reilly claims that he has nothing personal against the Trump appointed Wray and that his leadership of the FBI was far better than that of his predecessor, James Comey, O’Reilly said that during the time Wray has been at the helm, the FBI has descended into political turmoil. Wray was appointed in 2017.
Not surprisingly, O’Reilly felt that it was “boring and unproductive” that Democrats on the House judiciary committee spent their time bashing Trump and MAGA.
As for Republican participation, O’Reilly thought they squandered an opportunity to pin down Wray with specific questions rather than spending their time making speeches about how bad the FBI is.
O’Reilly suggested that the following questions should have been asked to Wray.
The FBI had advanced information that a violent action might take place on January 6 at the Capitol. Who was alerted, and why was no action taken by the Bureau?
Twitter executives say the FBI visited them and suggested they censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Did you know about that, Mr. Wray?
An FBI informant told the Bureau he had evidence then Vice President Biden took money from Hunter and Jim Biden. Agents put those allegations into a memo that you refused to share with Congressional investigators. Why?
Are those Biden allegations currently under investigation?
And finally, did the IRS request FBI assistance in the Hunter Biden tax investigation?
O’Reilly felt that these simple questions were ignored and that the swamp earned yet another victory.
The FBI has a dubious history of corruption and mismanagement and many facts are beginning to emerge.
On July 5, 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey announced the bureau’s recommendation that the United States Department of Justice file no criminal charges relating to the Hillary Clinton email controversy. During an unusual 15 minute press conference in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, Comey called Secretary Clinton’s and her top aides’ behavior “extremely careless”, but concluded that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”.
On October 28, 2016, less than two weeks before the presidential election, Director Comey, a long-time Republican, announced in a letter to Congress that additional emails potentially related to the Clinton email controversy had been found and that the FBI will investigate “to determine whether they contain classified information as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.” At the time Comey sent his letter to Congress, the FBI had still not obtained a warrant to review any of the e-mails in question and was not aware of the content of any of the e-mails in question. After Comey’s letter to Congress, commentator Paul Callan of CNN and Niall O’Dowd of Irish Central compared Comey to J. Edgar Hoover in attempting to influence and manipulate elections. On November 6, 2016, in the face of constant pressure from both Republicans and Democrats, Comey conceded in a second letter to Congress that through the FBI’s review of the new e-mails, there was no wrongdoing by Clinton.
On November 12, 2016, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton directly attributed her election loss to Comey.
On May 9, 2017, President Trump dismissed FBI Director Comey after Comey had misstated several key findings of the email investigation in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Many mainstream news outlets had questioned whether the dismissal was in response to Comey’s request for more resources to expand the probe into Russian interference into the Presidential election. Following Comey’s dismissal, Deputy Director Andrew G. McCabe became Acting Director. On August 1, 2017, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director Christopher A. Wray was officially confirmed by the Senate in a 92–5 vote and was sworn in as Director the next day.
The Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael E. Horowitz, publicized a report into misconduct at the DOJ and FBI over its handling of the Hillary Clinton private email server investigation. Horowitz criticized James Comey, FBI Director at the time of the investigation, for not following bureau and Justice Department protocol. The IG report, however, did not find any evidence of political bias or criminal misconduct in Comey’s decisions throughout the email server investigation.
According to the report, Horowitz found that Comey had a ‘troubling lack of direct or substantive communication’ with Attorney General Loretta Lynch ahead of his July 5, 2016 press conference on Clinton’s email probe and his letter to Congress in October 2016. “We found it extraordinary that, in advance of two such consequential decisions, the FBI director decided that the best course of conduct was to not speak directly and substantively with the attorney general about how best to navigate those decisions,” according to the IG findings.
Moreover, the report also uncovered the use of a private Gmail account for FBI business utilized by Comey, despite warning employees about its usage. The act of misconduct was “inconsistent with” Justice Department policy, the watchdog investigation determined On March 16, 2018, Attorney
