Wray is a sleeper
Hard to find good people in a city like DC. Hard enough in general. Give the guy a (not Wray) a break for having a tough time staffing. "Sleepers" make it impossible to avoid errors.
Sleepers in Q's OP are swamp creatures
Nature of sleepers. They turn out different from what you thought. Smarter is Q now than before.
The fired ones were too PUBLICLY toxic to protect.