FBI Director Christopher A. Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, The Washington Times has learned.
Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn't want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director's thinking.
"He's going to be gone at the inauguration. On or before the inauguration," a source said.
The Deputy Director, Paul Abbate, had planned to stay on and appoint an acting director of the FBI until Trump's nominee was confirmed.
However, Grassley just published a blistering letter stating he has no confidence in Wray, and no confidence in Abbate, and Abbate should resign too.
Apparently Abbate is planning to resign.
Mr. Grassley's letter changed Mr. Abbate's plans, and he is now looking for an alternate acting deputy director to appoint.
Former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and RussiaGate Hoax Debunker Devin Nunes says he's worked with Kash Patel and thinks Patel is the right pick for cleaning up the FBI.
President-elect Trump's nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director has sparked a frenzy of outrage from the fake news media. I'm sure none of this surprises Kash, who has faced it all before.
Fake news outlets don't typically attack congressional staffers by name, but years ago they made an exception for Kash. At the time, he was my lead staff investigator on the House Intelligence Committee as we examined allegations that President Trump had colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 presidential election.
We quickly began uncovering evidence that the entire Russia collusion narrative was a hoax funded by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign and weaponized by our own intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Shockingly, the abuses included the Department of Justice and FBI providing false information to a secret court to get a warrant to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
Back then, Kash was an outstanding sleuth and a bulldog investigator who drew on his own experience as a DOJ prosecutor to figure out what misdeeds these corrupt officials were committing. To get the evidence, we had to overcome their ceaseless stonewalling, over-classification of documents, and countless other tricks and maneuvers they employed to bury the truth.
Fake news reporters and "resistance" bureaucrats understood the evidence we found undermined their hoax narrative, so they launched an all-out jihad against Kash, with anonymous sources accusing him of committing every conceivable atrocity known to man.
The attacks on Kash went beyond these information warfare operations--in a face-to-face meeting with us, top DOJ officials, who apparently didn't appreciate their dirty laundry being aired, threatened to subpoena Kash's communications. What we only found out years later was that they had already seized Kash's emails, along with those of other congressional staffers investigating the collusion hoax, including staffers for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
So the DOJ and FBI spied on Kash Patel because he was rolling up their crime network.
I'm sure he won't take that personally or anything, though.
In sum, the DOJ secretly spied on their own constitutionally mandated overseers to find out what we knew and how we knew it.
You can imagine how intimidating it would be for a staffer to be directly threatened by top-level Department of Justice officials. But Kash could not be bullied. He was fearless, methodical, and intelligent, and ultimately played a decisive role in exposing the most consequential and damaging hoax in American history.
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Kash understands surveillance abuses and intimidation tactics because he experienced them himself -- and he never backed down.
If you want an FBI director who will go along to get along, you're better off with someone else. If you want a director who will follow the Constitution and transform the bureau into an impartial, trustworthy law enforcement agency that zealously goes after criminals instead of political targets, then Kash is, bar none, the right man for the job.
Amy Klobochar is fighting for some extraconstitutional power to insist that the criminal Wray remain in is position as boss of the FBI crime family. Ron DeSantis says that's not how it works.
I heard Trump will be attending the Army-Navy game with DeSantis this weekend. People speculated he might be looking to ask DeSantis to step in for Hegseth at DOD, but Trump restated his support for Hegseth and Joni Ernst has been rocked back on her adulterous heels by the right posting one damning video after another of her supporting BLM, voting for Biden's cabinet appointees, praising trannies in the military and women in combat, etc. So Hegseth looks less shaky today than he did a week ago.
I don't know if Trump would offer DeSantis a position and I'm not sure that DeSantis would want to take it. I don't think there are any major positions left to offer, except something like Director of the CIA or something like that.