Thread by @DawsonSField

Thread on FBI Director Wray's testimony to Rep. Nadler's Judiciary Committee.

FISA abuse shall be on the agenda, so I expect to hear a few new nuggets. Even Nadler is complaining about FBI 'errors' in FISA cases...

Nadler also wants answers on the supplemental background check on Justice Kavanaugh during the confirmation process. Or he wants an excuse to claim the FBI bowed to the White House...

Nadler trying to find out which members of the coup are under criminal investigation. Asking Wray to confirm investigations on coup plotters in Congress & other places. Wray says, we have only been asked to conduct investigations based on criminal predicates!
@ 28 minute mark.

Nadler, questioning Wray on the Kavanaugh investigation. Asking if WH set list of acceptable & unacceptable witnesses or timelines to complete it.
For any background check the asking agency (the WH) sets the scope. So that is how all background checks are do. @ 34 min mark

Collins questions...
Jokes about Nadler stating at beginning of this Congress Nadler said he'd reinvestigate Kavanaugh case. Collins surprised it took him 14 months & he did it without calling for a single hearing on it...

Wray says he can't share information on who leaked the Page FISA. Says not even in classified session. Won't discuss specific leak investigations. But refused to confirm if there is an active investigation on that leak...

May give credence to theory that the leak was intentional

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wants and FBI investigation into the app debacle in Iowa. Hope they can find a good excuse to get Shadow Inc.'s receipts.

Rep. Chabot: asked about FISA changes.

Wray: 18 months ago, I called in all 200+ SES level FBI officials to come to Quantico for a day of training by OIG & judges to begin fixing the issues behind Crossfire Hurricane. 57 min mark

Wray noted a couple of things with regards to the leaders at the FBI involved in the CH investigation.
Most of them no longer work for the FBI, all of those from the National Security Division are gone.
Everyone has been referred for disciplinary review.
1:12 mark

But don't miss a key issue there, some will be found responsible for their misconduct & others will be exonerated. You can't exonerate someone without investigating allegations, especially when coworkers set up scapegoats...

Rep Hank Johnson celebrating Wray's independence as FBI Director, so it makes him not part of the Trump cabal.
Hank is complaining that OIG report doesn't support Trump's claim that it was a fraud on the court. Every law enforcement agency would show stuff like this if you looked

How can the Dems call the FBI Trump's rogue agency when arrests occur after an impeachment manager declared them to not be a rogue agency thanks to Wray's independence. 1:16 mark.

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@Jim_Jordan Does a great job, as always getting to the point.
51 assertions in the FISA not backed up by facts in the Woods File. Nothing new though but it makes for good soundbytes for Foxnews...
1:19 mark

@Jim_Jordan Rep. Deutch brings up Bob Levinson case hoping Wray will prioritize it. 1:25 mark.

@Jim_Jordan Rep. Ratcliffe: Bringing up OIG discussion of intentional misconduct & bias in the FISA on Carter Page. Disputing Dem spin on that.
Point out the evidence documenting the fraud on the FISA court...

@Jim_Jordan Swalwell gives Wray the chance to explain that China is interfering in the US to get pro-China policies adopted rather than just the trolling of the Russians.