{"id":1971325,"date":"2023-07-12T19:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T23:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-carries-wrays-water-suggests-republicans-imagined-fbi-targeting-school-board-parents\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T23:56:35","slug":"cnn-carries-wrays-water-suggests-republicans-imagined-fbi-targeting-school-board-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-carries-wrays-water-suggests-republicans-imagined-fbi-targeting-school-board-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN supports Wray, denies GOP&#8217;s claims of FBI targeting school board parents."},"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\">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%2Fcnn-carries-wrays-water-suggests-republicans-imagined-fbi-targeting-school-board-parents%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=1971325&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--><h2>A CNN Panel Defends FBI Director Christopher Wray Against Republican Criticism<\/h2>\n<p>A CNN panel consisting of anchor Dana Bash, political analyst Nia Malika Henderson, and Axios\u2019 Margaret Talev passionately defended FBI Director Christopher Wray during a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing. They argued that the complaints made against the FBI were merely a product of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-carries-wrays-water-suggests-republicans-imagined-fbi-targeting-school-board-parents\/\" title=\"CNN supports Wray, denies GOP's claims of FBI targeting school board parents.\">alternate reality perceived<\/a> only by Republicans.<\/p>\n<h3>Alternate Universe Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>Henderson responded to Committee Chairman Jim Jordan\u2019s line of questioning about the FBI allegedly spying on Catholic Churches, stating, \u201cThis is part of, essentially sort of two Americas. The Republican version of the FBI is that it is a weaponized agency \u2013 that they\u2019re going after Catholics, that they\u2019re going after parents who are complaining at school boards.\u201d She emphasized that these allegations were baseless and fueled by a divisive narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeaponizing the Idea of FBI<\/p>\n<p>Henderson continued, \u201cYou see as a result of that, people who are campaigning for president saying they\u2019re going to defund the FBI, that they are going to fire all the officers and sort of build it from the ground up. This is a result \u2026 of Donald Trump\u2019s America, weaponizing the idea that the FBI is out to get average Americans, particularly going after Republicans and conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Credibility of the FBI<\/p>\n<p>Talev expressed concern about the potential consequences of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prince-harry-issues-15-demands-for-leaders-tech-industry-to-defeat-fake-news\/\" title=\"Prince Harry Issues 15 Demands for Leaders, Tech Industry to Defeat Fake News\">eroding trust<\/a> in the FBI. She stated, \u201cGod forbid there would be a domestic terror event or something where the credibility of the FBI is important for all Americans.\u201d She argued that the real risk lies in the possibility that the FBI would be needed in the future, but the American people would no longer trust the institution or be willing to work for it.<\/p>\n<p>Congress&#8217; Oversight Role<\/p>\n<p>Bash interjected, reminding viewers that oversight of the FBI is Congress&#8217; responsibility. She acknowledged that there were legitimate questions to be asked, especially since Wray himself had admitted mistakes in the handling of the situation with the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the FBI&#8217;s Mission<\/p>\n<p>CNN correspondent Josh Campbell also joined in the defense of the FBI, suggesting that any actions taken by the agency were aimed at preventing catastrophic events like the Oklahoma City bombing or 9\/11. He criticized oversight efforts as an attempt to discredit the FBI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-medical-association-blasted-after-calling-for-removing-sex-from-birth-certificates\/\" title=\"American Medical Association Blasted After Calling For Removing Sex From Birth Certificates\">undermine public trust<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN panel, led by Dana Bash and including Nia Malika Henderson and Margaret Talev, defended FBI Director Christopher Wray as he faced Republican-led House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s inquiries. They argued that certain criticisms against Wray were unjustified, providing support for the embattled director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1971326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971325","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}