{"id":51522,"date":"2023-08-11T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51522"},"modified":"2023-08-11T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:53:49","slug":"tell-us-how-you-really-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51522","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us How You Really Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Strom posted an article at Hot Air<\/a> on Thursday titled, “Christopher Wray is a low-down dirty liar and should be gone.” Wow. That’s a strong statement.<\/p>\n

The article explains the reason for the headline:<\/p>\n

FBI Director Christopher Wray has a habit of lying before Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is in addition to his running the FBI like a secret police force determined to take down anybody the current regime dislikes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last month, during hearings about the government’s surveillance of Catholic Churches in America, Christopher Wray claimed that Richmond memo which called for the surveillance of Catholic Churches was the result of a rogue set of FBI agents who worked alone and didn\u2019t represent a larger movement within the FBI to go after political conservatives. Wray assured us that he was deeply concerned about this and was investigating how it happened. It turns out that his statement was totally false.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

That investigation, by the way, was his excuse for withholding information from the committee, including redacting documents and not allowing the agents involved to speak to the committee. In itself, this is a bizarre standard, as there are no criminal charges involved and the Congress is charged with oversight of the Executive Branch. Is it now the case that any time the FBI or any other agency wants to hide information from Congress they can just claim they are \u201cinvestigating\u201d the matter and will tell Congress nothing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

…So what did Wray lie about specifically?<\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 25 the FBI finally provided the committee with a less-redacted version of that Richmond document. The report says that its information on Catholics was \u201cprimarily derived\u201d from an \u201cFBI Richmond contact\u201d; an \u201cFBI Portland liaison contact\u201d who informed on a subject who \u201cgravitated to\u201d traditionalist catholicism; and an \u201cFBI Undercover Employee\u201d who reported on a subject who attended a Catholic church in California.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also says the FBI\u2019s Los Angeles field office \u201cinitiated an investigation\u201d into a subject, and that the Richmond office \u201c[c]oordinated with\u201d FBI Portland to prepare the field report. In other words, this was a widespread bureau effort. Why was this suspicion about religion so widespread at the FBI?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also troubling is the FBI\u2019s decision to redact the Portland and Los Angeles roles from the original version of the Richmond document it provided Congress in March. In a letter with the less-redacted version, acting assistant FBI director Christopher Dunham said the redactions had been necessary to protect \u201cinformation specific to ongoing criminal investigations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It may be time to scrap the current FBI and start from scratch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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