After Wray hearing, attention turns to Merrick Garland
by Sarah Bedford, Investigative Reporter |
July 17, 2023 06:01 AM
House Republicans left a hearing this week featuring FBI Director Christopher Wray with few answers to their questions.
In roughly eight weeks, they’ll get another, potentially better, chance to ask.
Wray’s inability or unwillingness to discuss the sensitive criminal investigations of former President Donald Trump and the Biden family, as well as other episodes of alleged misconduct by the FBI, revealed the limits of how much information the House Judiciary Committee might expect to get from the FBI.
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appearance may prove more productive. And Garland’s testimony will come after the release of new documents and whistleblower testimony that could sharpen GOP lawmakers’ questioning.
Some of the most heated exchanges during Wray’s appearance Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee involved questions about decisions that may have been made above his paygrade.
Those included the controversial decision to prosecute an anti-abortion activist on charges of which he was quickly acquitted, claims from multiple whistleblowers that U.S. Attorney David Weiss had faced roadblocks in his efforts to charge Hunter Biden with financial crimes, and the speed and aggression of the prosecution of Trump in the classified documents case relative to the slow and cautious pace of the Biden investigation.
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