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Christopher Wray might not be the worst director in the history of the FBI. After all, there was James Comey, and before him Robert Mueller. Wray, however, who finally resigned on Wednesday, completed the work that Mueller and Comey began: he oversaw the total politicization of the FBI, and its transformation from a respected law enforcement agency into an American Gestapo, a tool of partisan politics that the Biden-Harris regime wielded like a club against its political enemies, real and imagined. Christopher Wray will not be missed. The question that he leaves in his wake is whether the damage he has done can be undone, and the FBI restored, or if the whole agency should simply be shut down.
While Christopher Wray was director of the FBI, agents of his crooked agency stormed Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and scrutinized Melania Trump’s clothes closet for classified information. This was the first time in American history that a sitting president had weaponized the FBI against a political opponent, and Wray uttered not a public word about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation was becoming the Democrat Bureau of Lawfare and Harassment.
Trump wasn’t the only victim, either. The Biden-Harris regime sicced Wray’s feds on angry parents protesting at school board meetings, worked with Twitter and other social media giants to silence and deplatform people with opposing views, and even sent spies into Catholic churches.
This is the legacy of Christopher Wray. And while all that was happening, Wray repeatedly insisted that “insurrectionists” and the “white supremacists” constituted the greatest terror threat the nation faces today. Not Islamic jihadists. Certainly not criminals crossing the open border and roaming free inside the United States. Wray’s ridiculous claims about “white supremacist terrorists,” as well as the agency’s focus on Jan. 6 “insurrectionists,” were a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize and destroy all political opposition to the Biden regime in the U.S.
In this effort, Christopher Wray acted as a willing henchman for Old Joe Biden and his handlers. Instead of focusing the FBI’s energies on actual terrorists and criminals, Wray willingly participated in the smearing of loyal, law-abiding Americans whose sin was only that they supported Donald Trump rather than Old Joe.
Christopher Wray has since 2017 been one of the principal executors of the destruction of our justice system and the establishment of the present two-tier system that energetically prosecutes patriots for the smallest of offenses, or even for no offenses at all, while turning a blind eye to genuine evidence of real crimes because leftists and members of the political and media elites committed them. If you don’t believe me on this, ask Hunter Biden.
Can Donald Trump undo what Christopher Wray and his predecessors have done? It will be extraordinarily difficult. Trump has appointed Kash Patel to succeed Wray, and that’s a decisive step in the right direction. Back in August, Patel was asked what he would do if he did become the director of the FBI, and his answer was pure gold.
“One of my biggest personal recommendations,” Patel said, “is you shut down the FBI headquarters building and open it up the next day as the Museum of the Deep State, and you send those 7000 agents in the headquarters building down range to chase down rapists, to chase down murderers, to chase down drug traffickers and let the cops be cops on the streets across America. You keep a small contingent in Washington, D.C. That’s step one.”
Now Kash Patel has a chance to clean one of the filthiest of Augean Stables in Washington. All patriotic Americans should hope and pray that he succeeds. But virtually every agent who is in the FBI now will be resisting everything he does, and trying to prevent him from succeeding. For years now, patriotic agents have been forced into early retirement or given up in disgust. They’ve been replaced by partisan hacks who are happy to be tools of this ersatz American Stasi.
It may turn out that Trump and Patel will conclude that the FBI is beyond repair. At that point, they should simply shut it down. The Bureau of Investigation was founded in 1908 and became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935. That means that the U.S. got along without it for 132 years, and can very well do so again. A new agency, built from the ground up to be determinedly nonpartisan (with, for the sake of prudence, none, absolutely none, of the present agents rehired), might be in order.
Can Trump really shut down the FBI and build it back better? The real question is this: can he afford not to?
The idea of moving government agencies out of Washington DC is a good one. Stimulates local economies throughout the country, and helps drain the DC Swamp, Grifters slurping from the huge pool of tax moola. Most of the wealthiest counties in the country are in that area, slurping up tax moola.
What do we do with the New FBI headquarters being built in DC? It’s purported to be larger than the
Pentagon? ( Not sure if they’ve started building it yet?) ( dormitories for illegal aliens? ) ( Would not
surprise me )
Chris Wray and his collection of panty sniffers……….Wray has already said he will resign. It shouldn’t be that hard to get rid of the Biden hacks that resist Patel’s reforms. Assign them to the outer reaches of the country where it snows a lot and the phone never rings, or fire them outright. And bring back the patriotic agents who took early retirement.
How hard can that be?
Time to start to hold all who get paid by the government accountable for their action in a court of law by citizen judges for damages done by them to the common well being ! Enough already of Comeys Muellers Wrays Garlands and komrads
When the FBI was started in 1908, agents were not allowed be armed. This was done so the FBI had to rely on local police or the FBI would help the local police. They did not want a national police force that would become a protector of a political party.
Unfortunately the FBI of today is exactly that- an organization that sees it’s primary allegiance to the Democrat party.
Yes. Exactly. I can think of situations requiring Federal LEO to be armed: e.g. National Park Service employees need to shoot bears once in awhile. But generally they should not be armed at all. If they need muscle – that’s what the locals are for.
Thank you for the reminder. We should all learn this.
FUMIGATE the entire FBI to get rid of all the Cockroaches who CONSPIRED in the coup-attempts against a sitting President, then the former President and the Assassination Attempts, and the President-Elect…. WHICH IS TREASON! LOCK ‘EM UP! JUSTICE ISN’T REVENGE!” (I didn’t mention Trump because this is against The President of the United States!)
ADD FIFTY-ONE former intelligence agents in that CONSPIRACY and that POS, John Brennan! #1 TARGET: BARACK OBAMA! Has JUST ONE of them say they were duped into signing on to this Conspiracy? Their names will then be forever Chiseled in Stone! Were some of them part of the Russian Collusion hoax too? FISA warrants? Assassination attempts and cover-up?
FBI PATRIOTS need to expose these COCKROACHES and to PROTECT ALL DOCUMENTS from being destroyed!
HAS ANY AMERICAN/MUSLIM been arrested for aiding ANY designated terrorist group, directly or indirectly? It would seem the FBI would have arrested a few thousand? Has the FBI investigated Student Muslim groups? Any Professors, like the radicals at Columbia, aka Joseph Massad and others???
THE FBI OPENLY goes after parents at school board meetings and Catholics and yet, nothing on JIHADIST GROUPS, SLEEPER CELLS, AND IMAMS?
DURING BLM DESTRUCTION here in Albuquerque, a group of them were trying to rip an ATM machine out of the wall and the FBI came on TV to ask for help in identifying them…. NO ARRESTS THAT I KNOW OF! The Mobs proudly put their destruction on Youtube, on their FB and Instagram, AND YET THE FBI COULDN’T CONNECT THE DOTS???
WHY IS THIS….. BECAUSE THEY’RE A PART OF IT! THE SOVIET KGB ACTIVE MEASURES HAS WORKED!!!! They also didn’t do anything about all the CPUSA/KGB directed and funded fronts during the ’60s-’80s… THIS DURING THE COLD WAR!!!
HOW ABOUT JUST BULLDOZING EVERY BUILDING TO START FROM THE FOUNDATION!!!
For starters, the FBI Director is a political appointee. Would you expect an unbias, non-partisan candidate for the job? Then you have the type of people who position themselves to be political appointees. Do you expect them to not be toadies and grandees, inflating their own worth and resumes, and/or having a history of providing valuable “services” to the State?
Mueller was a bureaucrat who was effective at covering up other people’s messes. Comey was the aforementioned toady and grandee. Wray was Chris Christie’s lawyer when Christie stepped in it with Bridge-gate. Who recommended Wray to Trump? Say what you will about Hoover, but he did not stay around as Director solely because he had dirt on everybody. He also ran an effective organization, with clear intent and direction.
The real problem with the agency is that, like most of government, it was seeded in with ideological fellow travelers during the Obama years. All those people are now mid-career, where they are most dangerous, because they are completely embedded in the system, and still far enough from retirement that it is difficult to wait them out, which is the standard government method for dealing with problem employees.
“was seeded in with ideological fellow travelers during the Obama years.”
Good point.
Patel has his hands full – I imagine that he will work with Musk on this.
Having survived 24 years in the “BU” trying to fight the losing battle to keep it apolitical and accountable, my recommendation now as it was when I gratefully retired, is tear it down and start anew. I’ll be glad to help
Thanks for keeping up the good fight, James. I would hope that Kash Patel assembles an all-star IG team of retired agents and other independent trusted investigators who have an exemplary record of allegiance to the U..S. Constitution and adherence to the highest standards of ethical and professional behavior to help clean house and refer for prosecution all who have violated their oath and the law in the service of a criminal Democrat party. These should be the new “Untouchables” who will know where the bodies are buried and who can help Kash identify the keepers and the miscreants. It will likely require a massive restructuring of the bureau and a rework of its charter, and Kash and his Untouchables should be the right team for the job.
Those early morning gustapo raids, unless against real dangerous criminals, has to end. Julie Kelly’s book on Jan 6 was a totalitarian dystopian nightmare. No warrants , platoons of military armed agents robotically ransacked, arrested and scared the hell out of families of trespassers. I want those agents prosecuted and gone. “Just following orders “ didn’t work for the Nazis at Nuremberg.
Wray is a typical heels-dug-in bureaucrat who thinks he is above all the people he works for. I often think of Leon Trotsky, who was wrong on communism, but absolutely correct on the putrid, corrupt bureaucracy in the old Soviet Union. His belief was what actually cost him his life after a couple of exiles. We have the same putrid, corrupt bureaucracy here in the good old USA.
Wray said something like “we do what’s right for the FBI”! Please note that – not what’s RIGHT – not what’s RIGHT FOR OUT NATION – but what’s RIGHT for the FBI!! That, ladies and germs, is the issue at hand! The FBI was founded to PROTECT Our Nation – not PROTECT the FBI FROM our Nation!
As far as the “political appointee” crap! Yes, the Director is Appointed by A President and MAY serve Ten years – not MUST serve Ten years as so many ill-informed Congress critters and nitwits seem to think! And even though the person is appointed, it’s NOT to be as a bulldog for the President. The President should identify the best person to LEAD what was considered Our Most Important crime and safety organization. Something went wrong somewhere!!
Mr. Patel has a huge, probably impossible job ahead unless he serves his FULL TEN YEARS under PRESIDENT TRUMP and possible President Vance or DeSantis. I do hope he makes enough progress in his first YEAR and exposes the corruption and sabotage that has taken place. MANY current and former FBI folks should be worried!! Just remember – when that 3am (not lolly gagging until 4) knock on your door happens, you’re NOT protected any longer!!!
Wray is staying on until Inauguration Day to continue his work overseeing the mother of all shredding, data and record destruction episodes in American history. Meetings’ being held to go over proper email deletion and the widespread use of BleachBit and of course everyone getting their stories in line. Then there is the discussions going on about which agency employees are going to be a “problem” and their upcoming unfortunate fatal “accidents” and “suicides”. If one does not clearly understand this is going on, you are part of the problem.
Wray’s phony pained adieu to the nation is exactly what one would have expected from him. Good bye, so long, don’t ya come back, ever.
While doing all this damage, the intelligence and defense agencies let foreign spies (other than themselves!) run amok. When I read about rogue drones over New Jersey, I flashed back to the Chinese spy balloons that none of these wizards of intelligence could or would stop until these had gathered enough information for the enemy.
What about the C I A? Maybe that should be shut down too!
The FBI does a lot of good though. The FBI lab is probably the best in the world. Given the mobility and international nature of some crime syndicates, a national agency is probably necessary. The world is a different place than it was 200 years ago so alluding to those past times is pointless.
An apolitical FBI not helmed by criminal Democrats is what we need.
Robert, I disagree with you that we should replace the FBI. Whatever law enforcement power the Federal Government needs, it should coordinate this with state and local police agencies. This will help the Federal Government understand better its subservient role to the States and will prevent federal tyranny. @TomJarman1979
“Mr. U. will not be missed,/Who, as an anthologist,/Sold the many on the few,/Not
excluding Mr. U.” — e,e, cummings
(Mr, U. was a real editor cummings thought abused his position as to who got published and who didn’t. A different category in the world, but same type guy.)