{"id":1633941,"date":"2022-09-06T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633941"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:04:34","slug":"top-senator-fbi-director-wray-must-do-much-more-to-combat-agency-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senator-fbi-director-wray-must-do-much-more-to-combat-agency-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Senator: FBI Director Wray Must Do \u2018Much More\u2019 to Combat Agency Bias"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftop-senator-fbi-director-wray-must-do-much-more-to-combat-agency-bias%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=1633941&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) proclaimed this week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-christopher-wray\">Christopher Wray<\/a> has to do \u201cmuch more\u201d to deal with alleged bias inside the bureau amid whistleblower claims that agents slow-walked an investigation into Hunter Biden and the current probe targeting former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wouldn\u2019t even know about it if there weren\u2019t whistleblowers, very patriotic people in the Justice Department that came to me and gave me this information about Thibault,\u201d Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee,\u00a0told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/grassley-fox-friends-fbi-director-wray-root-political-bias\">Fox News<\/a> on Monday, referring to former FBI special agent Timothy Thibault, who left the bureau several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley said\u00a0Thibault allegedly opened an investigation into Trump \u201cbased upon very just fuzzy newspaper reporting and then closes down an investigation on Hunter,\u201d referring to President Joe Biden\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least Wray moved him out of that position. Now he is not even in the department,\u201d the Republican senator continued. \u201cBut I think Wray has to do much more to come up with a plan to show that this political bias within the FBI is going to be attacked and rooted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotal transparency is important,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThe public\u2019s business has to be public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Whistleblowers <\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Thibault, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI\u2019s Washington Field Office,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fbi-official-accused-of-blocking-probe-into-hunter-biden-says-he-retired-wasnt-fired_4701294.html\">confirmed<\/a> that he departed the bureau in late August, although the lawyer disputed claims that he \u201cdid not supervise the investigation\u201d into Hunter Biden and wasn\u2019t \u201cinvolved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers also said there was nothing controversial about how he was escorted out of the building following his departure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/10\/10\/GettyImages-1232419227.jpg\"><\/a> Chuck Grassley (R-IA) speaks during a Senate Judiciary hearing in Washington, DC on April 20, 2021. (Bill Clark-Pool\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Thibault turned in his security badge before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) proclaimed this week that FBI Director Christopher Wray has to do \u201cmuch more\u201d to deal with alleged bias inside the bureau amid whistleblower claims that agents slow-walked an investigation into Hunter Biden and the current probe targeting former President Donald Trump. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t even know about it if there weren\u2019t whistleblowers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1633941","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\/1633941","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633941\/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=1633941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}