{"id":1591865,"date":"2022-08-06T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591865"},"modified":"2022-08-06T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:47:38","slug":"the-time-to-hold-corrupt-bureaucrats-like-christopher-wray-accountable-is-before-they-are-even-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-time-to-hold-corrupt-bureaucrats-like-christopher-wray-accountable-is-before-they-are-even-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time To Hold Corrupt Bureaucrats Like Christopher Wray Accountable Is Before They Are Even Confirmed"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fthe-time-to-hold-corrupt-bureaucrats-like-christopher-wray-accountable-is-before-they-are-even-confirmed%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=1591865&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>Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee agree that FBI Director Christopher Wray needs to be better at his job, but their attempts to rein in the incompetence and scandal plaguing a multitude of federal agencies, including intelligence agencies, just aren\u2019t cutting it. <\/p>\n<p>Several Republicans have signaled they plan to investigate corrupt and partisan bureaucrats such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Wray if they win back Congress in the November midterms. For now, while Democrats control the White House and the legislative branch, the GOP has resorted to letters and the occasional \u201coversight hearing\u201d that accomplishes little.. <\/p>\n<p>If Republicans\u2019 failure to hold bureaucrats accountable via letter-writing campaigns wasn\u2019t apparent before, it was after an oversight hearing on Thursday when, instead of taking responsibility for any of his agency\u2019s failures including the botched Larry Nassar investigation, a Hunter Biden investigation cover-up, and the slow response to pro-abortion attacks across the nation, Wray <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/04\/fbi-director-wray-sets-possible-new-record-for-how-many-times-a-person-can-fail-in-a-3-5-hour-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly refused to answer questions<\/a> about the FBI\u2019s track record of lying in ways that affect national election outcomes. <\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, he doubled down and refused to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/04\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-refuses-to-condemn-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">condemn the Russia collusion hoax<\/a> that his agency proudly spun for years. <\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, multiple GOP senators expressed doubts that the FBI under Wray has fairly enforced the rule of law in the United States. Some even suggested it\u2019s time for Wray to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1555197811830001664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1555197811830001664%7Ctwgr%5Ede93f5cc1ece5e3220b1c88ae91793bf0855ec9a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2022%2F08%2F04%2Ffbi-director-wray-sets-possible-new-record-for-how-many-times-a-person-can-fail-in-a-3-5-hour-hearing%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clean house<\/a>. Yet most of those same senators were the ones who voted to confirm Wray as FBI head in 2017.  <\/p>\n<p>While it may have been difficult for senators to get an accurate read on Wray following his nomination thanks to a Russian collusion hoax media firestorm, there was at least one sign that senators, especially Republicans concerned about corruption, should have noted before voting to hand Wray control of the nation\u2019s primary domestic intelligence agency based on former President Donald Trump\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>Wray had a positive relationship with former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired for being a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/08\/29\/inspector-general-eviscerates-fired-former-fbi-director-james-comey-in-formal-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sloppy bureaucrat<\/a> who investigated the incoming president based on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fraudulent reporting<\/a>\u00a0by Christopher Steele. From <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2017\/05\/christopher-chris-wray-ray-fbi-director-us-attorney-comey-bio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2003 to 2005<\/a>, Wray worked at the Department of Justice as assistant attorney general under Comey, who was at the DOJ as deputy attorney general. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, only five senators, all Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/nomination\/115th-congress\/696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted against<\/a> Wray\u2019s confirmation. <\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long after that for Republicans to realize their support for Wray was a mistake. By 2019, Trump expressed doubt that Wray \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/12\/11\/senate-republicans-trump-christopher-wray-082586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">will never be able to fix the FBI<\/a>,\u201d but some Senate Republicans still came to Wray\u2019s defense. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI and dozens of other federal agencies are rife with problems and internal chaos that is only exacerbated by the people in charge. If Republicans did a better job of vetting corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats before rubber-stamping them, or of making it possible to fire such bureaucrats instead of writing them letters after they are already in untouchable leadership positions, Americans might finally believe promises of \u201caccountability.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The GOP claims to be frustrated with bureaucrats such as Wray for failing, but that hasn\u2019t stopped them from rubber-stamping extremist nominees such as Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/22\/the-14-republicans-who-voted-to-advance-democrats-gun-control-wish-list-just-betrayed-their-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voting with Democrats<\/a> to funnel even more money to corrupt agencies like the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Poor personnel choices were Trump\u2019s self-inflicted Achilles heel. As my Federalist colleague Eddie noted, that\u2019s why the hint of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/05\/a-bureaucratic-swamp-shakedown-is-trumps-strongest-case-for-a-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swamp shakedown<\/a>\u201d if Trump runs again and wins a second term is so appealing to Americans desperate for trustworthy institutions. <\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, is not promised office again. That is why the blame for the FBI and every other agency\u2019s unchecked power rests solely on Republicans who willfully vote to confirm radical, corrupt bureaucrats who stay in charge for decades. <\/p>\n<p>Without good discernment about the types of people this nation requires to be healthy, functional, and give fair and equal treatment to all, the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers designed to hold our nation together will be no more. If Republicans repeatedly refuse to vet and vote against radical nominees, the possibility of true accountability is eliminated and our institutions will become even more corrupt.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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