Good riddance to Wray
By
Washington Examiner
December 12, 2024 12:01 am
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Few exiting officials merit fiercer censure than FBI Director Christopher Wray, who is resigning three years early. In an extraordinarily scathing letter, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) rightly provided it.
Wray has been a dissembler since he took over the bureau in 2017. He came into office promising transparency, candor, competence, depoliticization, and systemic reform. He has produced none of it, acting instead as an obfuscator and excuse-maker, as if his job is to be the FBI’s corner-cutting defense attorney. As this newspaper and its columnists have detailed repeatedly, Wray has shown that neither his word nor his judgment can be trusted.
On case after case and on institutional FBI culture more broadly, Wray has covered for the bureau rather than dutifully serving the public. On institutional matters, in 2022, it came to light that an internal audit three years earlier showed that FBI personnel broke the rules at least 747 times in only a year and a half in “high-profile” investigations involving politicians, news media, and religious groups, but Wray neither advised the public of those findings during the interim three years, nor made public amends, nor addressed the problems until more than a year after the audit was publicized.
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