![]() ![]() ![]() Wray told a House committee last month: “What I can tell you is I see tens of thousands of agents and analysts and staff working their tails off to keep Americans safe from the next terrorist attack, gang violence, child predators, spies from Russia, China and North Korea, and Iran.”Ī senior official of one of the nation’s largest police departments agrees: “I work with the FBI every day, and I don’t see tatters.” Several bureau veterans offered similar assessments Trump’s comments offended even Comey’s detractors in the FBI. So let’s instead listen to FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Trump after James Comey was fired. In a rational world, Trump would apologize for smearing America’s top investigative agency, but that’s not where we live right now. Trump operatives have admitted in plea agreements that they lied to the FBI about their contacts with Russia. But Republicans delude themselves in claiming that the Russia probe is a partisan concoction. ![]() The FBI isn’t perfect, and text messages show that some officials favored Clinton (just as others supported Trump). What’s true here and what’s false? A careful look at the evidence rebuts the claim that the FBI was misused by Steele, and that the bureau’s operations are in disarray. President Trump has made very serious charges, tweeting in December that the FBI’s “reputation is in Tatters -worst in History!” And Republicans in Congress have claimed that the bureau was manipulated by a former British intelligence officer named Christopher Steele, who supposedly pumped up allegations about Trump-Russia collusion with a “dossier” that was financed by Hillary Clinton. WASHINGTON: “Does this concern you at all?” asks a tart email message from a Trump supporter who wonders why the mainstream media doesn’t take a closer look at allegations that the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election has been tainted by bias. ![]()
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