Some of the GOP’s most conservative members are pushing to cut off some funding for the FBI, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has questioned a plan to move the FBI headquarters from down…
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Chris Wray defended the “real FBI” during a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday, dismissing a litany of grievances from Republicans who are harshly critical of the bureau, threatening to defund some operations and claiming the Justice Department is unfair to political conservatives.
The director spelled out the bureau’s crime-fighting work breaking up drug cartels, taking some 60 suspected criminals off the streets each day and protecting Americans from “a staggering array of threats.
But the top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, said the hearing was “little more than performance art” by the Republicans who are undertaking what he called baseless investigations too far-fetched to be true. Jordan has been laying the groundwork for Wray’s appearance since House Republicans took the majority in January.
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