FBI Director Christopher Wray insists that the bureau works for nobody but the American people after Attorney General Barr said Wednesday night that its agents work for him.
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Wolf, who was subpoenaed to appear, defied the order to come before the committee, citing his pending nomination as secretary for the department. The department instead offered to have the senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Ken Cuccinelli, testify in Wolf's place, but the committee declined, according to the DHS.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee during a hearing about 'worldwide threats to the homeland' in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Sept. 17, 2020, in Washington, DC. The focus of these efforts by the Russians is to"primarily to denigrate Vice President Biden, and what the Russians see is kind of an anti-Russian establishment," Wray said, adding that the bureau's partnerships with social media companies are crucial for combatting misinformation and disinformation in 2020.
Wray was pressed repeatedly by both Democrats and Republicans about the particular ideology of protesters involved in some of the violent unrest across the country since the killing of George Floyd while in police custody, and on numerous occasions Wray said that the FBI doesn't investigate ideology but rather criminal behavior.
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