Wray is covering up as if HE were the director during the treasonous acts.
He wasn't director then. But the FBI is a paramilitary organization by its nature. If the guy above you says you go up to the 10th floor, go to room 101 and knock. When the door opens, you arrest all and only the men in room 101, you do not bring back women, you bring back the men in one piece if you can. In other words, you follow the orders of your superior officer sans debate, sans fear, and sans resistance. It's your job. My hunch is Wray is now the director, and is trying the best he can to convey his personal disenchantment with the treasonous acts without conferring undue criticisms on agents trying to obey orders. Just my 2 cents.
That rationale' does not address the wrongdoing by FBI leadership.
I'm okay with giving a pass to the foot soldiers following orders, buy NOT those in the chain of command who knew they were breaking the law.
kyzr says: "That rationale' does not address the wrongdoing by FBI leadership.
I'm okay with giving a pass to the foot soldiers following orders, buy NOT those in the chain of command who knew they were breaking the law."
Of that there can be no doubt, kyzr. I find American Justice confusing when I think of this symbol:
Lady Justice is supposed to be blind and balanced toward all exterior excuses when judging adults -- race, rank, social standing, office, honors, former crimes, and make judgments solely on absolute proof of wrongdoing the specific crime under scrutiny in a court of law, which in America first says all are equal under the law.
But in military courts, there are or should be standards based on what is expected of the individual being tried, and failure to obey an order can result in execution if cowardice is the cause. And because the FBI is a paramilitary group, failure to obey a superior's command that results in the death of one or several other agents death is likely punishable in some ways. As a consequence, it becomes an unwritten law that one must obey direct orders. with responsibility landing at the level of the individual handing down the order, and he is supposed to be ordering on the certainty his basis has been explored and is true to justify his actions. This could land on a commander in chief if that's where the order was issued in a way that would make the order acted out by a regular agent potentially sinister if the commander-in-chief had less than putting the American people first reasons. In the case of a person issuing an order for purely political gains or to camouflage his errors of the past, present, or future, the blame ought to be higher for the issuer of the order than the person whose dismal task was to carry out such an order.
However, if the guy who pulled the trigger and assassinates a person who is later found to be completely innocent and was harmed out of the irrational idea one can cover one's errors if someone else takes the rap for it, that's a whole 'nother ball game, and would take a forensics expert and a completely true judicial Lady Justice approach to resolving, wouldn't you think? It would be doubly the commander-in-chief's blame if he knew he was doing it to cover his own butt.
And imho, that's exactly why the Democrat Party is constantly harassing President Trump with false charges. They've utterly zero respect for Lady Justice's principles. I don't know how you can fix that, except to go back to the Constitution and pull up the "all men are created equal" idea behind the Constitution's protection of individual people's civil rights.
Jealousy because a man won an election is not just cause to frame him for a crime or crimes he did not commit is the wrong reason to impeach a man.
And there should be a severing of plotters from damaging the people's choice of electing a President who is falsely maligned over and over and over again for 3 solid and stinking years by a party who lost the election soliciting its members to harass the winner's staff and supporters over their disenchantment with American voters who, through the Electoral College, duly elected a man President of the United States of America.
And that's what I think.
I also think that persons fit to try this mess Congress has created should weigh in on military reasons when they are dealing with an FBI agent who is dealing fairly with the object of his spying upon and not prejudiced for or against the person whose personal doings he is investigating. Audio proof that he "hates" the person he is investigating ought to ride on whether he recuses himself from this duty or not. If that is written into his instruction manual, he could be called out for treason if he instigates over and beyond his call flimsy and false findings his object is guilty. Somehow, the FBI has a habit of informing Democrats they are being investigated and withhold informing Republicans they are being investigated. That is the worst imaginable reason to eliminate an elected official from being confronted with removal, which an impeachment certainly is.
I've heard several people accuse Nancy Pelosi of hating the President, and in fact, she acts like a full-fledged hater when she storms out of the President's office for offending whatever she is mad about, and she is mad a lots.
Many Americans lose trust in the government when people in power become bipolar under pressure, which can make matters worse than they already are. Pelosi cannot handle her bipolar feelings, and she really has no business assuming her power as Speaker of the House gives her such a right as to make an ass of herself. That's just one example.
We have a lot of proofs that the FBI under Obama went far off the deep end in their agreements to do political dirty work for a certifiably unqualified man doing dirt to half the American voters in this country who are Republican, because he could. And he destroyed the reputation of the FBI by forcing his will of getting rid of all Republicans as if they owed him their very jobs. That's not so. Their early training and how they used it should have been what merited their rank. Backbiters is who Obama picked, and I have a feeling he did not look at anything but how much they contributed to his presidential campaign, because that's how he rolls. That was evidence to me when he started doing bad things to states that did not give him all their electoral votes. He was a vengeful, hateful man to Americans who did not vote for him, and he had Hillary peeking in on stuff like that, because as first lady, she elected to outdo the men in the War Room of her husband. She went after Republican competitors with a fine toothed comb. Bill claimed that the American people got two for the price of one, but in fact, all we got was two lifelong dirtbags.