FBI Director Christopher Wray is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday. With the cluster bomb of scandals that has rocked the FBI for the last seven years, there is just too much to cover. So congressional Republicans — and any Democrats who still care about their oversight duty — should focus on these questions, which will both educate Americans on the depth of the problems at the bureau and advance the investigation into the weaponization of the FBI. Two main areas of inquiry will fulfill these dual goals.
The Durham Report
Thursday will be the first time since the Durham report dropped in May that Wray will appear before Congress, so some questions should focus on the special counsel’s findings. The most important information the House Judiciary Committee can learn from questioning the FBI director is whether he agrees with the broad conclusions Special Counsel Durham reached. If not, that alone merits Wray’s removal because you can’t possibly fix a problem you don’t think exists.
The House committee can achieve this goal by walking Wray through a quick litany of the fundamental scandals the special counsel uncovered and asking his view on the findings.
“Do you agree with the special counsel’s conclusion that there was an insufficient predicate to open Crossfire Hurricane as a full investigation?”
“Do you agree with the special counsel’s conclusion that the FBI handled allegations of ‘foreign election influence activities associated with entities related to Clinton,’ differently than it did the allegations
