Director Wray [Judiciary Hearing on Attempted Assassination]: We do believe he [shooter] was a gamer, and that he had different kinds of gaming accounts.

[possibly as a means of communication?]

Van Drew [Judiciary Hearing on Attempted Assassination]: I know you dismiss them, but in October of 2023, a prestigious group of retired FBI Special Agents and analysts, both expressed concern regarding the FBI's willingness to recruit agents that, "can't even pass the new relaxed standards for fitness, who are illiterate in some cases, and need educational lessons, don't want to work weekends or after hours, and have serious disabilities or mental health issues."

Director Wray: Those who think that we have lowered our standards, whether it's on physical fitness, or anything else, are mistaken.

Van Drew: And you can prove that?

Director Wray: The facts back me up on that.

Van Drew: The standards are the same toady as they were a decade ago?

Director Wray: The physical fitness standards that our current graduates have to have to graduate from Quantico, actually exceed some of the physical fitness standards that were in place with some of our retirees.

[there should be a hearing with all of the retired agents as witnesses]

Kiley: At this moment, are you confident that high-level protectees, presidents, former presidents, are well protected?

Director Wray: That's not really for me to say, I have a lot of respect for the men and women of the Secret Service who provide protection, just as I do for their counterparts at other agencies.

Kiley: You can't say one way or the other, your assessment, as director of the FBI, whether the president is safe?

Director Wray: [chuckles] I'm not an expert on protective details and physical security.

Hageman: There are other reports that Maher Bitar, National Security Council Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy, and Deputy Assistant to the President, was an active member in Students For Justice in Palestine at Georgetown University, which is one of the groups alleged to have ties to Hamas. Is the bureau investigating whether the Biden/Harris administration is compromised by pro-Hams groups and organizations?

Director Wray: There's nothing along those lines that I can think of to report.