Wray announced more than 40 reforms triggered by the findings of the report, but GOP lawmakers said they wanted to see more decisive actions, like firings of agents and FBI employees who were involved
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday faulted FBI Director Christopher Wray for what they called a grossly inadequate response to the Justice Department’s recent watchdog report on abuses in the process used to put Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser, under surveillance as a potential Russian agent.
“The failures highlighted in that report are unacceptable. Period. … It cannot be repeated,” the FBI director said during the four-hour-plus hearing — his first congressional appearance since Horowitz’s report was released in December. “I do not think anyone has carte blanche to bypass rules, and I intend to make that painfully clear, that that is not acceptable in the FBI today.”
“I am not somebody, as quite clear by now to a lot of people, who expresses himself with hyperbole and loud rhetoric. I am somebody who reflects his views through actions,” heThe FBI director said most of the senior officials and supervisors mentioned in the inspector general report had left the agency.
Wray did say some FBI personnel had been fired for violating anti-leak policies, but he did not tie those dismissals to the inspector general probe or the Russia investigation.
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