[Washington Examiner] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham praised FBI Director Christopher Wray for the bureau’s cooperation with the Republican’s investigation into the Trump-Russia investigators as the 2020 election looms.
After meeting with Graham in late August, Wray sent the senator a letter last week that was made public Tuesday in which the bureau highlighted "the many meaningful steps taken under Director Wray's leadership to ensure the failures of Crossfire Hurricane are not repeated" and vowed that "the FBI continues to cooperate fully with this Committee's investigation." Graham’s office said that he "has continued to press the FBI for answers about how and why the Crossfire Hurricane investigation got so off track."
"I very much appreciate this update from the FBI," Graham said on Tuesday. "FBI Director Wray and his team are helping the committee perform vital oversight. I know Director Wray wants to repair the damage done by Crossfire Hurricane. He is working to rebuild the credibility of the FBI."
Wray has faced criticism from a number of Republicans, including Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who accused the director of slow-walking responses to information requests related to the Russia investigation, and President Trump, who said in May that "the jury is still out" on Wray. Attorney General William Barr has defended Wray amid the flurry of GOP critiques.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in December that criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 "significant errors and omissions" related to the FISA warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and for the bureau's reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier. Steele put his research together at the behest of Fusion GPS, which was funded by Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Declassified footnotes from Horowitz’s report indicate that the bureau became aware that Steele’s dossier may have been compromised by Russian disinformation, and FBI interviews show Steele’s primary subsource undercut the credibility of the dossier.
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One feels hidden depths of lawyerly sarcasm in all that, a sense that Director Wray was helpful in all sorts of unintentional ways not necessarily to his benefit...
#9
I can't stand Graham not only because he is a weak-kneed (typical) politician, but also because of his chicken hawk-like devotion to John "Axis Sally" McCain. Two sickening figures of American politics.
#10
Earth (or South Carolina) to Lindsey: You are up for reelection in 8 weeks. Don't make us mad.
It's almost certain that you'll be reelected in SC. But don't take us for granted.
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#11
Time for Graham to retire. Too bad its too late to replace him on the GOP ticket. The only reason to vote for him is the Dem would be even worse, and would put Schumer in charge.
Little Lord Lidnsey has been and likely always will be a swamp creature, going back to his days as Yellowstain McCain's (spit) buttboy.
I wonder what blackmail info they are holding over his head?
DEVELOPING: Investigators have learned that Obama CIA Director John Brennan ran a secret task force out of Langley with its own separate budget to investigate Trump campaign and alleged ties to Russia. Task force set up before FBI officially launched its own probe on 07/31/16
It is being said that Brennan had a CIA unit outside of DC studying Trump over a year before the election. But, Trump wasn't even a top Republican contender then... so did he have a unit set up for each Republican contender? Why no discussion on that?
If each investigator earned $80K a year it would be a $150K a year cost to the CIA. If they earned $180K to $220K costing would need to be $400K per year per investigator. Office help is $40K costing about $80K with benefits. Office cost in D.C about $10K per person. There were 17 Republican Candidates so for cell type CIA grouping .. an office suite for each = 17 suites. Then the question is how many people in each group? Sn=seniors per group In=juniors per group, Hn= Office help per group.
Cost = 17(candidate count) * (group cost)[ Sn*$400K + In*$150K +Hn*(office help cost in DC) + + suite lease cost + material & research cost per group ]
so assume per group Sn=3 In=8 Hn=2 for 13 people per group. So group cost = 3*400K +8*150K +2*80K +13*10K + material & R&D
= 2.69M + misc
so 17x cost = 45.73 million plus 17*misc_costs.
#11
5 killed over a long weekend in a city the size of NY is not that big a deal. (Fortunately, they are not very good shots.) (And most are usually bad vs bad shootings anyway.)
#5
What need of trattorias, tapas bars, and banh mi? Wilhelm has provided all the street life anybody could ask for. There's just no pleasing some people.
#8
He's preparing for "The Dreaded Second Wave Of The Deadly Coronavirus", which will start when the weather drives people indoors.
Meanwhile, the CDC numbers show nearly 60% of deaths are over 75 years old and almost 80% are older than 65.
But all those folks are retired; let everybody not retired go about their business! Get a grip, Gov!
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Supporting BP's comment (#2), the CDC says 3% of the deaths were less than 45 years old.
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I do like that this is about two Dems trying to out-idiot one another.
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#11
^ w Biden on (dueling) banjo... where's that photo showing his cretinous eyes that make him a dead ringer for the blind hillbilly kid in Deliverance?
#13
So of the 0.1% of the world population who have 'tested positive', of them 1% have died, and of that number 3% are under 45 like that Spanish meterball coach....oh who also had leukemia.
Sorry, have to get my TI-85 to figure that number.
No third or even second tier evidence of mass casualties. Only people using WuFlu as an excuse to not work and people using WuFlu to keep other people from working.
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