FBI Director Chris Wray has heard a lot of conspiratorial Republican nonsense, and as stevebenen writes, a closely watched congressional hearing helped prove that he’s sick of it.
presented the bureau with incriminating surveillance video and evidence of an intent to obstruct the subpoena.
At one point, he said it was “insane” that he was being accused of political bias against conservatives, given his own background: Wray, as Democrats noted at the hearing, is a registered Republican. Wray, looking rather annoyed, waited for the congresswoman to wrap up before responding, “The idea that I am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal background.
Wray’s use of the word “insane” while pushing back against Hageman’s strange claims stood out, but the FBI chief also said Republican arguments about the FBI suppressing the lab-leak theory were “absurd,” and Republican claims about the FBI helping orchestrate the Jan. 6 attackOr put another way, Chris Wray has heard a lot of conspiratorial Republican nonsense, and he’s apparently sick of it.
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