Christopher Wray – Deep Left Field

Members of the House Republican caucus are so out of control that they’re openly threatening federal law enforcement officials and anyone else who dares to disagree with them.

Today it was Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) who went on an extended and fact-free rant that he aimed at FBI Director Chris Wray.

Higgins began his questioning of Wray by suggesting that FBI agents had fueled the violence on January 6, 2021 that resulted in the storming of the U.S. Capitol building.

“Director Wray, last year, you may recall, sir, our exchange regarding the FBI’s involvement on January 6th and prior. I’m happy to jog your memory to quote, according to the record I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say.'”

“We can’t get a straight answer, although we have a tremendous amount of evidence harvested and reviewed over the course of the last year which you will see in September,” Higgins continued.

The director replied, “Congressman, as we’ve discussed before, I’m not going to get into where we have or have not used confidential human sources. But what I can tell you…”

Rather than letting Wray complete his response, Higgins cut him off: “Okay, we will move on.”

When Wray noted that Higgins had asked for a “definitive answer,” the congressman haughtily told him, “We will move on, it is my time. You said no, you’re not going to answer, that’s cool we are watching.”

Next, Higgins began asking about what he called “ghost buses,” explaining what he meant by the term:

“Well, it’s pretty common in law enforcement, it is a vehicle that’s used for secret purposes. It’s painted over. There’s two buses in the middle here. There were the first to arrive at Union Station on January 6th, zero-five-hundred. I have all this evidence, I’m showing you the tip of this iceberg.”

When Higgins was told that his time had expired, he began ranting at Wray:

“I note that all the members across the aisle have been granted time, and I object to my question being closed. This is a very significant hearing, Mr. Chairman. And these busses are nefarious in nature and were filled with FBI informants dressed as Trump supporters deployed onto our Capitol on January 6th and your day is coming Mr. Wray!”

Clay Higgins needs to either provide some facts to back up his claims of shut the hell up. Oh, and he also needs to loosen the tinfoil hat on his head.

When he testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, FBI Director Christopher Wray was asked in great detail about what transpired on January 6 when thousands of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead.

Specifically, Wray weighed in on the ongoing investigation of the Capitol insurrection, telling members of the committee:

“This is a very ongoing investigation and there’s a lot more to come. I would expect to see more charges — some of them maybe more serious charges.”

Wray added that he did indeed consider the Capitol riots to be an act of “domestic terrorism.”

But it was a question Wray refused to answer that led legal analysts to suggest that former President Donald Trump is indeed facing felony charges for his role in the insurrection.

Wray was asked if the FBI was also looking at charging Trump and others around him, along with members of Congress, for inciting the violence on Jan. 6.

Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi noted that what Wray didn’t say spoke volumes:

“We did hear a very good question that he was asked, which is, are you going to be looking at those people in and around the president — former president, maybe even sitting members of Congress, are you getting up to that big level?
“I’m trying to read the tea leaves. He said very, very carefully, ‘We have 500 pending cases, I have judges who would be very upset if I talked about the pending cases. It’s not appropriate to tell you whether or not we have such high-level cases.’ If I’m going to read the tea leaves, that sounds like the answer was, yes, we are looking at anybody and anything that looks like high-level playing.”

Trump’s speech shortly before the rioting started is what incited the riots. That means he’s partially responsible for what happened.

Trump is also part of a larger conspiracy which seems to involve others in the administration and Congress who helped set up the actions that took place that fateful day in Washington.

Anyone that played a role — no matter how small — in the Jan. 6 insurrection should be charged. That includes Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL). If, as they all maintain, they did nothing wrong, then they have nothing to fear.

Let the chips fall where they may. Charge every last one of them and take them to trial. Justice demands it.