Gaetz: The FBI has broken so bad, that people can go and engage in queries, that when you [Wray] come before the congress to answer questions, you're like blissfully ignorant. You're blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries, you're blissfully ignorant as to the Biden shake-down regime.
Cohen: There have been, I think Tucker Carlson and some of the members, colleagues on the other side of the aisle, have said that Ray Epps was a secret government agent, helping encourage this crime so as to make the president look bad. Do you have any knowledge of Ray Epps being a secret government agent?
Director Wray: Uh, no. I will say this notion that somehow the violence at the Capital on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous, and is a disservice to our brave, hardworking, dedicated men and women.
Issa: Director, how many individuals were either FBI employees, or people that the FBI had made contact with, were in the January 6th entry of the Capital, and the surrounding area?
Director Wray: I really need to be careful here, talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources.
Issa: Was there one or more individuals that would fit that description on January 6th, that were in or around the Capital?
Director Wray: I believe there is a filing in one of the January 6th cases that can provide a little more information about this.
Issa: I just want an answer, was there one or more? I mean, you would know if there was at least one individual that worked for the FBI who went to the Capital on that day.
Director Wray: I just can't speak to that here
Issa: It's been two years…I'm going to make the assumption that there was more than one, more than five, more than ten, and that you're ducking the question because you don't want to answer for the fact that you had at least one, and somehow missed understanding that some of the individuals were very dangerous, and that there were others inciting individuals to enter the Capital after others broke windows.
Hank Johnson: We are here today because MAGA republicans will do anything to protect Donald Trump, their savior, no matter how unfounded or dangerous it may be to do so. Welcome to the legislative arm of the Trump reelection campaign.
Hank Johnson: Did you contact the Trump administration to offer yourself for this job, or did the administration recruit you for the job?
Director Wray: They contacted me, and asked me if I would be willing to consider taking on the role.
Almost 50,000 people watching the FBI Oversight hearing over numerous youtube streams.
Schiff: During the last administration, and for four years, the Justice Department took the position, not unprecedented for the department, that a current president could not be indicted…that was the view of the Office of Legal Council and the Justice Department during the Trump years, that the president of the United States could not be indicted.
[The Justice Department's Office of Legal Council first concluded a sitting president cannot be indicted in 1973]
Jordan: What's the difference between a traditional Catholic, and a radical traditional Catholic?
Director Wray: I'm not an expert on the Catholic orders.
Jordan: Well your FBI wrote a memo talking about radical traditional Catholics. I'm just wondering if you can define it for us.
Director Wray: What I can tell you, is that you are referring to the Richmond product, which was a single product, by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast, and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.
Swalwell asking about 'Family Day' at the FBI.
Biggs: Do you know if any of your personnel at the FBI is involved in the investigations promised that will lead to indictments by the January 6th quota established by US Attorney Graves?
Director Wray: That doesn't sound familiar to me.
Biggs: Those were there in an undercover capacity on January 6th, how many were there?
Director Wray: Again, I'm not sure that I can give you that number as I sit here. I'm not sure there were undercover agents on scene.
Biggs: I find that kind of a remarkable statement, director. At this point, you don't know whether there were undercover federal agents, FBI agents, in the crowd, or in the Capital, on January 6th?
Diredctor Wray: I say that because I want to be very careful; there have been a number of court filings relating to some of these topics, and I want to make sure that I stick to what's…
Biggs: I understand that, but I thought I heard you say you didn't know whether there were FBI agents, or informants, or human sources, i the Capital or in the vicinity on January 6th. Did I misunderstand you?
Director Wray: I referred very specifically to undercover agents.
Biggs: So are you acknowledging then, there were undercover agents?
Director Wray: As I sit here right now, I do not believe there were undercover agents on scene.
Biggs; Did you have any assets present that day in the crowd?
Director Wray: When it comes to what you're calling assets…that's a place where, again, I want to be careful…there are court filings I think speak to this, that I'm happy to make sure get to you, assuming they're not under seal.
Jordan: Did the FBI ask financial institutions to turn over their debit and credit card purchase history, in the Washington , DC area, for January 5th and 6th, 2021?
Director Wray: Uh, I don't know the answer to that as I sit here right now.
Jprdan: Well we do, because Bank of America gave us the email from the FBI to Bank of America.
Director Wray: I am aware that Bank of America provided information to the FBI, but what communications occurred between the FBI and Bank America about it…my understanding is that our engagement with Bank of America was fully lawful, but we recalled the leads that were cut to field offices.
Jordan: Why did you not use the leads if it was lawful to get the information?
Director Wray: There are plenty of times where there are things that we lawfully can do, but we decide it's better that we not do.
The FBI whistleblower has apparently not cashed the check that democrats have been screeching about. kek
Cline: Did the FBI have an adequate basis on which to launch Crossfire Huricane?
Director Wray: My understanding is that Mr. Durham found that it did not have a proper basis to elevate it to a full investigation, but that he thought that it was, an assessment or preliminary inquiry was appropriate.
Cline: Did the FBI fail to examine all available exculpatory evidence?
Director Wray: Certainly I think there were significant failures with respect to exculpatory information.
Cline; Did the FBI interview all key witnesses in Crossfire Hurricane?
DIreector Wray: I think Mr. Durham found that they did not.
Cline: Did the FBI abuse it's authority under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act?
Director Wray: Certainly there were violations that were totally unacceptable, and in my view, cannot be allowed to happen again.
Scanlon: Like many Americans, I find it unpatriotic and dangerous when member of congress embrace dangerous conspiracy theories that undermine our federal law enforcement, and ultimately, our democracy. And I find it disingenuous for members of congress to harangue the head of the FBI about people losing faith in the FBI, when those same members have been trumpeting lies and conspiracy theories about the agency for months.
McClintock: When we abandoned Afghanistan, we released about five thousand terrorists from the Parwan Detention facility. One of those showed up at Abbey Gate ten days later, and killed thirteen US Marines. Where are the other five thousand?
DIrector Wray: I don't know that I can tell you where all five thousand are.
McClintock: Have you encountered any here in the United States?
Director Wray: We have quite a few ongoing investigations into foreign terrorists-related subjects, whether they are Al-Qaeda related, or ISIS related, that we're conducting.
McCLintock: Have you encountered any from Parwan here in the United States?
Director Wray: Specifically, I'm not sure I can say that. Let me follow up and make sure if there's anything more I can provide you on that.
Director Wray: Every employee who in any way touched the Crossfire Hurricane matter, has been referred to our Office of Professional Responsibility, our disciplinary arm.
Director Wray: I'm not going to second guess the judgement of the career agents on the ground that made the determination. [to raid Houck's home]
Roy: But you job is to second guess and look at what they are doing. Your job is to review what they do. Your job is to protect the American people from a tyrannical FBI storming the home of an American family.
Director Wray: I could not disagree more with your description of the FBI as 'tyrannical'.
Dean says she has a 'first-cousin in-law' who was an FBI agent in the Philadelphia suburbs. Going by her own career as a criminal, that former agent should be considered suspect.
Director Wray: I'm very mindful of the fact that the whole reason I'm in this job, is because my predecessor was fired, and in a fairly scathing inspector general report, one of the things he was criticized for was for sharing more information, both with the public, and with congress, than was consistent with federal rules.
Wray says he actually visited the El Paso Walmart crime scene, shortly after the shooting occurred in 2019. There is no logical reason or need for the director of the FBI to travel cross-country to go to a crime scene.
Director Wray: We are finding over the course of the last year, maybe even a little less than a year, that almost every gang takedown we have now, and we're doing them all over the country, all of the time; almost every single one now seems to involve, as well, a seizure of Fentanyl.
Director Wray: We are seeing all sorts of very serious criminal threats that come from across the [southern] border.