Geassley highlights Wray's at minimum 86 failures, but as he says "the list goes on and on"
76I’ve given quite a few examples here, but other examples of blatant failures throughout your tenure abound. The FBI for years has failed to update me on the status ofcriminal referrals I made related to individuals who made materially false statementsand obstructed the work of the Judiciary Committee and my investigative staff during theCommittee’s consideration of the nomination of Brett Kavanaughto be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court;
77 it’s failed for over two years to adequately answer my inquiries into the DOJ and FBI’s targeting of pro-life activists like Mark Houck,
and the heavy-handed at-gunpoint raid against him;
78 it’s failed to respond to my March 2024 inquiry
about the support FBI provided Project Thor, a successful ATF anti-cartel program defunded by the Biden DOJ, and what efforts FBI is taking to stop firearms trafficking to Mexico;
79 it’s failed to respond to my inquiry to DOJ and FBI in October of this year askingwhy it took so long to indict and arrest a man who made violent threats against Judge Aileen Cannon after she dismissed charges against President Trumprelated to his handling of classified information
80 it’s failed to respond to my inquiry from May of this year asking about whistleblower allegations that the Obama-Biden State Department obstructed the FBI from making arrests of high-risk targets
providing support to Iran for their nuclear and ballistic missile programs;
81 it’s failed to answer my letter from July of this year asking the DOJ and FBI tokeep me updated on the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump;
82 it’s failed to update me on the status of acriminal referral I made to FBI in January of this year related to likely child trafficking through the Biden-Harris Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services;
83it’s failed for over a year-and-a-half to respondto my April 2023 request for records related to news reportsyou commandeered your FBI private jet to avoid spending time in traffic;
84 it’s failed for six years to provide a full response to my inquiry into the FBI’s investigation of the shooting of an unarmed man sitting in his car;
85it’s also failed, despite promises, to provide sufficient transparency about the FISA query process, with names of politicians and names of
19,000 donors to a congressional campaign and individuals arrested at social justice protests being
improperly searched, and thousands of FISA protocol violations reported by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
86 The list goes on and on.
==Your and Deputy Director Abbate’s failure to take control of the FBI has hindered my work and
others’ work throughout multiple Congresses on matters that needed timely information, and has
prevented the truth on some issues from ever reaching the American people==.
You’ve also shown a continuing double standard and failure to carry through on promises.For the good of the country, it’s time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives.
I’ve spent my career fighting for transparency, and I’ve always called out those in government who have fought against it.
For the public record, I must do so once again now. I therefore must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI.
President-elect Trump has already announced his intention to nominate a candidate to replace you, and the Senate will carefully consider that choice.
For my part, I’ve also seen enough, and hope your respective successors will learn from these failures.
Read the whole letter the disrespect for Congress and Senate if hideous: