The FBI is coming under fire after blatantly stonewalling House Republicans.
In an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) called out FBI Director Christopher Wray for his “defiant,” “evasive” and “standoffish” behavior during a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 12.
During the hearing, Wray refused to answer questions, and even made “demonstrably untrue” claims, about the bureau’s censorship collusion with Big Tech platforms.
However, Johnson is now demanding Wray amend his testimony. Johnson’s comments come two days after MRC Free Speech America exclusively found that Wray evaded GOP questions a whopping total of 96 times.
Citing the latest approval ratings of the scandal-ridden FBI, Johnson said the American people have lost their faith in the bureau. “I think some of the answers, he provided to us in the hearing were demonstrably untrue. It’s just a problem, scandal upon scandal, continues to stack up,” Johnson told host Trey Gowdy before warning of the seriousness of the situation. “We can’t keep a constitutional Republic, a government for and by the people if the people lose faith in the institution of justice and there's nothing less than that at stake right now.”
Johnson recounted that in the hearing he pressed Wray on a lawsuit and preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s assault against free speech. “My focus on the hearing this week was this explosive court opinion — federal court opinion — out of my home state of Louisiana handed down July 4, 155 pages, Trey, and every American should read it,” Johnson said. “The judge looked at all of the evidence and determined that the Biden administration, the DOJ, the FBI and other federal agencies were engaged in this broad, strategy to censor and silence conservatives online and they met regularly with the social media platforms to do just that.”
The Louisiana lawmaker explained the dire consequences of the censorship. “The judge said that he issued an injunction because he said it had the desired result: millions of protected free speech postings were pulled off of the internet because some FBI agent somewhere decided they didn’t like the message,” Johnson stated.
The injunction, which was subsequently blocked by an appeals court, had marked a massive victory for free speech advocates. “It’s staggering,” the Louisiana lawmaker said of the evidence. “[T]he court said in its own words, ‘It’s arguably the most massive attack on free speech in United States’ history.’ This is this big stuff and the FBI has a serious, serious problem.”
Johnson said he and House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will hold Wray accountable in an upcoming letter. “Chairman Jim Jordan and I are preparing a letter that we’ll issue probably Monday or Tuesday to ask the director to correct his testimony. We are going to point the contradictions and what he said under oath,” Johnson concluded in the fiery interview.
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