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Sen. John Kennedy To FBI Director Wray:Who Made The Decision To Raid Mar-a-Lago For Documents?

It seems the Senator is trying to loosen up Wray to answer his real question. Wray seemingly never answers a direct question

I'm not saying there aren't some in – in the Washington office. But the problems we've had with the FBI over the past decade, you've alluded to them, have come primarily out of the Washington office.

I listened carefully to your recitation of your efforts to clean that up. But I think most fair-minded Americans still wonder if there has been real accountability in all cases, and that is the spirit in which I'm going to ask you these questions.

Who made the decision at the FBI to raid Mar-a-Lago for documents?

FBI DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WRAY: I'm not sure there's a specific person that made the decision. There was the investigative team that was on that investigation, working with the prosecutors on the case.

SEN, JOHN KENNEDY: Why didn't you just do a consent to search and avoid all the drama? Whoever made the decision?

FBI DIRECTO WRAY: Well, let me try it this way because obviously, we are talking now about not just an ongoing investigation, that is not just an ongoing investigation that is being led by a special counsel, but an ongoing investigation being led by a special counsel that is in front of a court with likely very strong views about what I can say publicly, which gets at some of your gracious comments about public commentary about cases.

But I think, in that particular instance, if you look at the affidavit in support of the search warrant, and more importantly the pleadings that were filed by the prosecutors in the case, they lay out in a very detailed way all the efforts that were made to ensure compliance, short of proceeding to a search. As well as, as now has been charged, actual obstruction of justice. My experience, now speaking more generally now, as a line prosecutor and now FBI director, when it comes to obtaining classified information, retreiving it, we pursue the least intrusive means possible. And if those don't work, certainly if there is obstruction of justice, which in this case has found by a probable cause standard by the judge, it is pretty typical to resort to a search warrant.

Dec 5, 2023

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