{"id":1743131,"date":"2022-11-17T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T02:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743131"},"modified":"2022-11-17T21:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T02:32:52","slug":"indefensible-fbi-director-wray-grilled-for-leaving-oversight-hearing-early-for-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indefensible-fbi-director-wray-grilled-for-leaving-oversight-hearing-early-for-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Indefensible\u2019: FBI Director Wray Grilled For Leaving Oversight Hearing Early For Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Findefensible-fbi-director-wray-grilled-for-leaving-oversight-hearing-early-for-vacation%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=1743131&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FBI<\/a> Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/christopher-wray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Wray<\/a> admitted Thursday that he left early a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> oversight hearing in August to go on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Wray appeared in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on Thursday alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid. The trio was brought before the committee to testify over national security threats to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) grilled Wray over his reason for leaving an August hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee after only one round of questioning. Wray said he did not cut the hearing short; his early departure was agreed upon ahead of time with the committee chair, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hearing was not cut short. From my experience, we had agreed upon the time and length of it, and I was very surprised to find that anyone on the committee was surprised,\u201d Wray said when asked about his use of a private FBI jet to fly to the Adirondacks. The FBI director is required by law because of the sensitive nature of his job to use a private FBI jet anytime he flies.<\/p>\n<p>Wray at first avoided a question about his reason for flying to the Adirondacks. When pressed by Hawley why Wray left a \u201cstatutorily required oversight hearing\u201d before a second round of questioning, the FBI director admitted he left for a family vacation.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Wray testified that he was \u201cvery surprised\u201d that Republicans on the Judiciary Committee were unaware of his early departure from the hill. At the time, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/07\/fbi-director-christopher-wray-is-guiding-the-agency-the-wrong-way-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a> about Wray\u2019s early departure after hearing about the FBI director\u2019s plans only after the hearing was underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just heard a half hour ago about you having to leave at 1:30,\u201d Grassley said at the time. \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 responded: \u201cSenator, I had a flight that I\u2019m supposed to be high-tailing it to outta here, and I had understood that we were going to be done at 1:30, so that\u2019s how we ended up where we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassley pointed out that Wray, as FBI director, has access to his own private jet that can depart at any time the director likes. \u201cIf it\u2019s your business trip, you\u2019ve got your own plane. Can\u2019t it wait a while?\u201d Grassley asked.<\/p>\n<p>Wray demurred without offering to push his flight back. At the end of the hearing, Wray confirmed to Grassley that the director was leaving for \u201cother business.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Under questioning from Hawley, Wray said that \u201cthe reference to \u2018other business\u2019 was not a reference to that day. It was a reference to the following week when Senator Grassley and I were going to see each other in Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley shot back: \u201cYou left an oversight hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee required by statute so you could vacation with your family. I find that absolutely unbelievable and, frankly, indefensible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted Thursday that he left early a Senate oversight hearing in August to go on vacation. Wray appeared in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee on Thursday alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid. 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