FBI Director Christopher Wray shut down inquiries Wednesday from House Republicans about what the bureau knew about key events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — including improper …
In a heated Judiciary Committee hearing, GOP lawmakers noted that millions of illegal Foreign Information Surveillance Act authorizations that have occurred on Wray’s watch, while the person who planted the bombs outside the Democratic and Republican National Committees has eluded justice for more than 900 days.
“Seems like a number you should know, how many times the FBI is breaking the law under your watch,” Gaetz said before showing testimony Wray gave last year to Sen. Mike Lee , in which the director denied knowledge of FISA authority being granted for Jan. 6 investigations. “You’re blissfully ignorant as to the unlawful queries; you’re blissfully ignorant as to the Biden shakedown regime,” Gaetz told Wray.“It was a court order,” Gaetz cut in. “You didn’t have that piece of information because the court hadn’t yet rendered a judgment.
“You give answers that later a court deems aren’t true,” Gaetz concluded. “And then at the end of the day, you won’t criticize an obvious shakedown when it’s directly in front of us, and it appears as though you’re whitewashing the conduct of the corrupt.” If the bombs had gone off, they would have “cause[d] the maximum distraction from the events going on at the Capitol,” Massie added. “It appears to me that’s not a coincidence.”
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