{"id":1594895,"date":"2022-08-08T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594895"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T19:19:21","slug":"did-fbi-director-christopher-wray-bail-on-a-senate-hearing-so-the-dojs-gulfstream-could-take-him-on-vacation-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-fbi-director-christopher-wray-bail-on-a-senate-hearing-so-the-dojs-gulfstream-could-take-him-on-vacation-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Did FBI Director Christopher Wray Bail On A Senate Hearing So The DOJ\u2019s Gulfstream Could Take Him On Vacation In New York?"},"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\">44<\/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%2Fdid-fbi-director-christopher-wray-bail-on-a-senate-hearing-so-the-dojs-gulfstream-could-take-him-on-vacation-in-new-york%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=1594895&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>FBI Director Christopher Wray may have bailed on an oversight hearing early last week to go on vacation in a taxpayer-funded private jet, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/07\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-is-guiding-the-agency-the-wrong-way-fast\/?utm_campaign=iphone_nyp&#038;utm_source=twitter_app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new report<\/a> in the New York Post. <\/p>\n<p>Despite their increasing frustrations with the nation\u2019s primary domestic intelligence agency\u2019s increasingly politicized conduct in recent years, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were rushed through one shortened round of questioning on Thursday because Wray said he needed to be \u201chigh-tailing it\u201d out of the rare oversight hearing by 1:30 Eastern to catch a flight.<\/p>\n<p>That flight, the New York Post\u2019s Miranda Devine alleged on Sunday, was a 12-minute trip on the \u201cluxury FBI Gulfstream,\u201d originally designed for counterterrorism purposes, to Wray\u2019s \u201cfavorite summer destination since his childhood\u201d in upstate New York.  <\/p>\n<p>Flight records confirm that a jet belonging to the Department of Justice did fly to Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, where Wray hiked and fished as a child, his father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/news\/local-news\/2017\/07\/soon-to-be-fbi-director-has-adirondack-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">served as Park Agency Commissioner<\/a> for more than a decade, and where Wray\u2019s parents have a 16-acre summer retreat less than an hour from the Saranac Lake regional airport, but the FBI did not immediately respond to The Federalist\u2019s questions about whether Wray was on board. <\/p>\n<p>If the FBI head did indeed cut an oversight hearing short to go to the scenic destination in upstate New York, a trip this particular DOJ jet has made three times in two months, then it\u2019s likely Wray blew off the senate for personal reasons, not business as senators were led to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Senators were under the impression that Wray\u2019s quick exit from his third appearance under oath in front of them in two years was urgent and work-related. That\u2019s because Wray said it was. In a hot mic moment a the end of the hearing, Ranking Member Chuck Grassley confronted Wray and said \u201cI assume you\u2019ve got other business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Wray replied. <\/p>\n<p>That was after Democrat Chairman Dick Durbin repeatedly reminded senators during the hearing that Wray had \u201ca hard stop coming up soon,\u201d something that seemed to surprise Grassley who wondered \u201cIf it\u2019s your business trip you\u2019ve got your own plane. Can\u2019t it wait a while?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just heard a half hour ago about you having to leave at 1:30,\u201d Grassley said. \u201cWe were going to have seven minutes [each] for first round [questions and] three-minute second rounds. I\u2019ve got seven people on my side of the aisle want their additional three minutes. Is there any reason we couldn\u2019t accommodate them for 21 minutes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wray blew off Grassley\u2019s frustrations and claimed \u201cI tried to make my break as fast I could to get right back out here.\u201d Grassley wasn\u2019t buying it and noted Wray took much longer than the five allotted minutes. But the Republican\u2019s protests were ultimately shut down by Durbin, who was also reluctant to indulge the request to prolong Wray\u2019s interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to accommodate as many as I can and still be respectful of the fact that this is your third appearance in two years before this committee. And I appreciate that very much. We want to make sure we do this on a regular basis. I try to ask everyone to stick to your seven minutes. We\u2019ve had some violations of that,\u201d Durbin told Wray.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition to intentionally refusing to disclose the reasons for his premature exit from the hearing, 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\">refused to answer senators\u2019 questions<\/a> about his agency\u2019s history of corruption and cover-ups and instead doubled down on defending the FBI\u2019s actions against U.S. citizens. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/04\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-refuses-to-condemn-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to condemn the Russia collusion hoax. <\/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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