FBI Director Christopher Wray to face GOP critics this week

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Wray's attempts to move the FBI past the Comey era have not blunted Republican attacks on the top federal law enforcement agency. Here's more.

American attorney and businessmanFor six years, FBI Director Christopher Wray has kept a low profile and taken a no-drama approach to the job. even as his agency has become a regular punching bag forThis week, however, Wray will come face to face with one of his fiercest critics, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Wray took the job in 2017, after then-President Trump fired his predecessor, James Comey, who had been vilified by Republicans and Democrats alike for different reasons, and whose significant public profile intensified the effect. “Think about how few public statements you have heard from Chris Wray,” Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and founder of the national security publication Lawfare, told Yahoo News. “Think of how the Bureau has been under attack from Jim Jordan, from Fox News, from everybody. It's an organization that the right-wing attack machine has identified as public enemy No. 1, other than Joe Biden.

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