{"id":1598405,"date":"2022-08-10T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598405"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:51:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:51:27","slug":"grassley-expresses-concerns-to-fbi-director-after-mar-a-lago-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassley-expresses-concerns-to-fbi-director-after-mar-a-lago-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassley Expresses Concerns to FBI Director After Mar-a-Lago Raid"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fgrassley-expresses-concerns-to-fbi-director-after-mar-a-lago-raid%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=1598405&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>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency\u2019s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLess than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI\u2019s credibility is on the line following its inconsistent handling of politically sensitive investigations, failure to hold its own employees accountable for misconduct and consistent disregard for congressional oversight,\u201d Grassley, Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night\u2019s raid on the home of a former U.S. president without explanation will only further erode confidence in the FBI and the Justice Department,\u201d Grassley said, referring to the FBI\u2019s execution of a search warrant on Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence late on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI reiterated these concerns to Director Wray today,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf the FBI isn\u2019t extraordinarily transparent about its justification for yesterday\u2019s actions and committed to rooting out political bias that has infected their most sensitive investigations, they will have sealed their own fate.\u00a0The FBI\u2019s mission and the many patriotic agents who work hard to carry it out will be forever overshadowed by the distrust the bureau has sown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of late Aug. 9, the FBI and its parent agency, the Department of Justice (DOJ), have not revealed the reason for the search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said that the Justice Department \u201cbears responsibility in upholding the public trust, and in a matter so consequential to our democratic process, Attorney General Garland also owes the American people full transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, the senator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckGrassley\/status\/1557000263382323200?s=20&#038;t=GsPId3-7TF6D9hOxV0XtOw\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cTransparency brings accountability &#038; if the FBI &#038; DOJ aren\u2019t transparent about raiding a former [president\u2019s] home they risk further damaging their credibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already raised issues from whistleblowers [about] political bias in investigations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency\u2019s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided. \u201cLess than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI\u2019s credibility is on the line [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1598405","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\/1598405","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\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}