by Mark Ferbrache, The Daily Caller:
FBI Director Chris Wray was again House Republicans‘ favorite punching bag. With daily revelations from House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) in the Senate virtually cementing Hunter Biden’s role as a major influence peddler to foreign countries, including China, Republicans want answers from the FBI as evidence on Hunter seems to implicate the President.
Wray’s interrogators went after him on a smorgasbord of allegations of the FBI violating its own policies and procedures, i.e., the Durham Report, and egregious Constitutional violations of citizens’ rights. Wray’s evasiveness enraged Republicans seeking answers to, among other concerns:
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Whether the FBI used undercover agents or directed sources to, maybe enthusiastically, participate in the Jan. 6 riot, and what is the Bureau’s alleged relationship with the ubiquitous Ray Epps? In another curiously timed development, Epp’s attorney indicated the government now intends to charge his client relative to the Jan. 6 event.
What is the status of the suspected pipe bomber who left devices at both the RNC and DNC on Jan. 6? A whistleblower reported that investigators identified a car associated with a suspect but did not pursue the lead.
And don’t even get me started on the FBI and Justice Department’s handling (or not) of the infamous FD-1023, or Wray’s absurd claim that the Bureau did not engage in censorship with social media but simply offered suggestions, utterly belied by Judge Terry Doughty’s cogent opinion in Missouri v. Biden.
But to me, the most startling admission by the FBI Director were his responses to the FBI’s collection of transaction records from US financial institutions. During Wray’s appearance, Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie advised Wray,“George Hill, former FBI supervisory intelligence analyst in the Boston field office, told us that the Bank of America, with no legal process, gave to the FBI gun purchase records with no geographical boundaries for anybody that was a Bank of America customer. Is that true?”
