{"id":1589651,"date":"2022-08-04T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589651"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T21:49:11","slug":"fbi-head-disciplinary-action-over-crossfire-hurricane-has-slowed-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-head-disciplinary-action-over-crossfire-hurricane-has-slowed-down\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Head: Disciplinary Action Over Crossfire Hurricane Has \u2018Slowed Down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-head-disciplinary-action-over-crossfire-hurricane-has-slowed-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The disciplinary process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> agents who mishandled the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation has \u201cslowed\u201d while special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation continues, according to FBI Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/christopher-wray\">Christopher Wray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wray testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The director\u2019s testimony comes as the bureau is again mired in controversy over recent whistleblower allegations that it wrongly dismissed potentially incriminating evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 election. Whistleblowers also accused the bureau of exaggerating the threat from domestic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) questioned the FBI director on the apparent lack of movement on disciplining staff involved with the seriously flawed investigation into false claims of Trump campaign collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019ve taken a whole slew of actions in response to the Crossfire Hurricane report. I think over 40-plus corrective measures and so forth,\u201d Wray said.<\/p>\n<p>The senator from North Carolina responded: \u201cHas anybody in the bureau been fired or disciplined?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of people who are currently in what we call the office of professional responsibility, which is our disciplinary arm. You may wonder why has that not yielded its results yet, and that is because we are working closely with, cooperating closely with, and assisting the Durham investigation,\u201d Wray answered. \u201cAnd so that whole process, which is not unusual, has been sort of slowed down to make sure that it does not interfere with the Durham investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released the <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.justice.gov\/reports\/2019\/o20012.pdf\">findings<\/a> of his investigation into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane in December 2019, identifying \u201cat least 17 significant errors or omissions in the [former Trump campaign adviser] Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the release of the report, Wray, who became the FBI\u2019s director in 2017 after the firing of his predecessor James Comey, pledged to prioritize institutional reform and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e will review the performance and conduct of certain FBI employees who were referenced in the Report\u2019s recommendations \u2014 including managers, supervisors, and senior officials at the time. The FBI will take appropriate disciplinary action where warranted,\u201d Wray wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/press-releases\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-response-to-inspector-general-report\">letter<\/a> to the inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/whistleblowers-reports-reveal-double-standard-in-pursuit-of-politically-charged-investigations-by-senior-fbi-doj-officials\">wrote<\/a> Wray last month detailing whistleblower allegations that at least one person at the FBI ostensibly under review for mishandling the Crossfire Hurricane investigation is involved with further misconduct involving the bureau\u2019s investigation into Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten falsely assessed the damaging information that the bureau had received on Biden as fake. Auten dismissed the verifiable and potentially damning reports on Biden as disinformation, whistleblowers allege, according to Grassley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFBI Headquarters\u201d used Auten\u2019s report to \u201cimproperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,\u201d Grassley wrote. \u201c[T]he allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disciplinary process of FBI agents who mishandled the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation has \u201cslowed\u201d while special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation continues, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wray testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The director\u2019s testimony comes as the bureau is again mired in controversy over recent whistleblower allegations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1589806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}