i was unable to watch all of this yet, but the Republican side kept questions focused to the FISC. 2 of them, i'm taking issue with.
the live feed became unlisted videos. i was able to find this through some browser searching, but it's not showing on the YT channel.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before House Judiciary
https://www.c-span.org/video/?468923-1/fbi-director-wray-testifies-house-oversight-hearing1. "some" GoP members are seeming to take issue with one of the roles picked to help address the issues with the FISC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-court-new-overseer-gop-criticismQuote
The GOP official added: "It's concerning that our of all the people FISC could have chosen to lead it's reform efforts, the court selected an Obama era official who has ignored the illegal surveillance of Carter Page."
Kris served in the Obama administration as assistant attorney general for national security from 2009 to 2011, and he served as an associate deputy attorney general under George W. Bush from 2000 to 2003.
Kris has penned columns in support of the FBI’s surveillance practices, prompting GOP concerns over his new role overseeing reforms tied to those practices.
as far as i can tell it's only an advisory role, and he has also been vocal in the needs of reform after the release of the IG's FISA report. even stating that more needs to be done than what is suggested.
he also wasn't even serving as AG under Obama in his second term. (when all of this happened)
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Yet in his new role, Kris has taken a firm approach -- recently blasting the bureau's proposals for FISA reforms as "insufficient," and saying they must be dramatically "expanded" in the wake of a critical Justice Department inspector general report last year.
Kris, in a letter to Boasberg last month, declared that the proposed corrective actions to the FISA system “do not go far enough to provide the Court with the necessary assurance of accuracy, and therefore must be expanded and improved.”
Overall, Kris echoed the findings of the Justice Department Inspector General (IG), noting that the FBI had "profoundly" and repeatedly "breached its obligation" to provide accurate information to the secret court "through a series of significant and serious errors and omissions" during the Russia probe.
looks like a non-issue.
2. "some" GoP members are looking exclusively for a reaction from Chris Wray over the abuse of the FISC.
i understand "why" they want this to happen - it would be a lot harder for people to deny the atrocities committed by particular prior agents surrounding the FISC during the investigation into Trump's Campaign. it would also be testimony Durham could use.
Wray is professional to keep emotions and opinion out of testimony. all this would be doing is trying to prove the bias of prior FBI, while showing the bias of your own FBI. it's pretty dumb for GoP to try to force this.
stick to reform please
This post was edited by tagged4nothing on Feb 6 2020 11:29am