联邦调查局局长克里斯托弗·雷周三在众议院司法委员会面前面临共和党人的质询。
该委员会由俄亥俄州众议员吉姆·乔丹担任主席批评的雷和司法部的人，指责这是出于政治目的滥用资源。
乔丹的委员会发布了一份报告周二，美国社交媒体公司为“代表被俄罗斯结盟行为者渗透的乌克兰情报机构向美国社交媒体公司提出审查请求”提供便利。
联邦调查局局长说，联邦调查局逮捕了2万名暴力罪犯，平均每天从街上清除60名罪犯。
“联邦调查局正在进行300多项针对这些卡特尔领导人的调查，并与我们的合作伙伴合作，仅今年我们就已经缴获了数百公斤芬太尼，阻止了致命药物到达全国各州的预定目的地，拯救了无数美国人的生命，”雷说。
乔丹还指责联邦调查局去年8月对前总统唐纳德·特朗普的家进行搜查时越权。在一个信对于雷的老板，司法部长梅里克·加兰，乔丹称这次袭击是“双重标准和误判的严重表现”
面对一些共和党人呼吁国会减少对联邦调查局的拨款，局长为该机构的行动进行了辩护。当被问及舞厅、浴室和卧室是否是存储机密信息的合适场所时——这显然是指地方在Mar-A-Lago据称储存机密文件的地方，他拒绝对此案发表评论，但他确实表示，所描述的房间通常不是敏感的隔间信息设施(SCIFs)，该局将其定义为存放机密文件的适当设施。
“我不想对悬而未决的案件发表评论，但我要说的是，关于在哪里存储机密信息，有具体的规定，这些信息需要存储在SCIF中...以我的经验来看，舞厅、浴室和卧室都不是安全区，”雷说。
瑞也面临着关于亨特·拜登调查的问题。众议员马特盖兹，佛罗里达州，大声朗读WhatsApp消息据称拜登利用他父亲的政治关系威胁了一位中国商业伙伴。
“我将确保坐在我旁边的人和他认识的每一个人之间以及我永远怀恨在心的能力，你会后悔没有按照我的方向行事，”据称拜登在听证会上引用盖兹的消息中写道。"我和父亲坐在这里等电话。"
“你是在保护拜登夫妇吗?”盖兹接着问雷。
“绝对不行，”雷回答。
上月，拜登同意的承认两项与税收有关的轻罪，并达成审前转移协议，使他能够避免一项重罪枪支指控的起诉。乔丹，连同监督委员会主席詹姆斯·卡莫和筹款委员会主席詹森·史密斯，对调查的处理方式提出了质疑。
特拉华州联邦检察官魏红星被推后关于总统之子拜登受益的政治干预的指控乔·拜登.
“为了澄清一个明显的误解，并避免未来的混乱，我希望明确一点:在这种情况下，我没有要求指定特别律师，”韦斯在给参议院司法委员会参议员林赛·格雷厄姆的一封信中写道。
早些时候证词国税局举报者加里·沙普利(Gary Shapley)向国会声称，韦斯未能说服华盛顿特区和加利福尼亚州的联邦检察官对拜登提出指控，因此韦斯随后要求成为特别顾问，据沙普利说，这遭到了拒绝。
雷伊还面临着以下问题第702条外国情报监视法案，一项监视计划将于今年年底到期。弗吉尼亚州共和党众议员本·克莱恩说，第702条“看起来像是一个框架，使联邦调查局能够监视无数的美国人。”
“我不能说对某些人来说是什么样子。我可以告诉你，在国家安全调查的背景下，这是一个专注于海外外国人的权威机构，”雷回答说。
当Wray说联邦调查局只访问“整个702收集的大约3%”和“联邦调查局只访问其中大约1.5%的内容”时，Cline反驳道，“嗯，如果你对美国人的通信进行数十万甚至数百次未经授权的702条款数据搜索，这显然是一种国内监控工具”，并表示他认为这“对FISA当局对贵组织的重新授权构成了真正的问题”。"
虽然乔丹反对重新授权第702条款，引用了官员被发现滥用第702条款程序的案例，但雷却反对辩论该计划对执法部门来说是无价的，因为它有助于逮捕使用美国公司电子邮件账户的恐怖分子和其他外国对手。
据了解该计划的消息人士透露，约旦计划在拨款法案中附加条款，规定联邦调查局将迁至阿拉巴马州的汉斯维尔，否则将被撤销资助。计划是第一个据报告的《华尔街日报》写的。
FBI director faces GOP grilling about alleged agency 'politicization'
FBI Director Christopher Wray is facing a grilling from Republicans before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has been critical of Wray and the Justice Department, accusing it of misuse of resources for political purposes.
Jordan's committee released a report on Tuesday about U.S. social media companies facilitating "censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors."
The FBI director said the FBI arrested 20,000 violent criminals, removing an average of 60 criminals from the streets per day.
"The FBI's running well over 300 investigations targeting the leadership of those cartels, and working with our partners, we've already seized hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl this year alone, stopping deadly drugs from reaching their intended destinations in states all over the country and saving countless American lives," Wray said.
Jordan also has also accused the FBI of overreaching when executing the search of former President Donald Trump's home last August. In a letter to Wray's boss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Jordan called the raid a "serious appearance of a double standard and a miscarriage of justice."
The director has defended the agency's actions in the face of some Republicans calling on Congress to reduce funding for the FBI. When asked whether a ballroom, a bathroom, and a bedroom are appropriate places to store confidential information -- an apparent reference to the place where classified documents were allegedly stored at Mar-A-Lago -- he declined to comment about the case, but he did say that the rooms described are not often sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIFs), which the bureau defines as the proper facilities for housing classified documents.
"I don't want to be commenting on the pending case, but I will say that there are specific rules about where to store classified information and that those need to be stored in a SCIF ... and in my experience, ballrooms, bathrooms and bedrooms are not SCIFs," Wray said.
Wray is also facing questions on the investigation into Hunter Biden. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., read aloud a WhatsApp message in which Biden purportedly threatened a Chinese business associate by invoking his father's political connections.
"I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction," Biden purportedly wrote in the message quoted by Gaetz at the hearing. "I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father."
"Are you protecting the Bidens?" Gaetz then asked Wray.
"Absolutely not," Wray answered.
Last month, Biden agreed to plead guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors and enter into a pretrial diversion agreement that would enable him to avoid prosecution on one felony gun charge. Jordan, along with Oversight Chairman James Comer and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, has raised questions about the way the investigation was handled.
Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss has pushed back on allegations of political interference to benefit Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
"To clarify an apparent misperception and to avoid future confusion, I wish to make one point clear: in this case, I have not requested Special Counsel designation," Weiss wrote in a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In earlier testimony to Congress, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley claimed that Weiss was unsuccessful in persuading federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., and California to bring charges against Biden, so Weiss then requested to become a special counsel, which -- according to Shapley -- was denied.
Wray also faced questions about Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a surveillance program set to expire at the end of this year. Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., said Section 702 "looks like a framework that enables the FBI to spy on countless Americans."
"I can't speak to what it looks like to certain people. I can tell you that it is an authority focused on foreigners overseas in the context of national security investigations," Wray replied.
When Wray said that the FBI only accesses "about 3% of the entire 702 collection" and that "the FBI only accesses content in about 1.5% of that," Cline shot back, "Well, if you're conducting hundreds of thousands or even just hundreds of warrantless searches of Section 702 data for Americans' communications, it's clearly a domestic surveillance tool" and stated his belief that it "poses a real problem for the reauthorization of FISA authority for your organization."
While Jordan has argued against reauthorization for Section 702, citing cases when officials have been found to have misused the Section 702 program, Wray has argued the program is invaluable to law enforcement, noting its utility in nabbing terrorists and other foreign adversaries who have used email accounts serviced by U.S. companies.
Jordan plans to attach riders to appropriations bills which state the FBI is to move to Hunstville, Alabama, or get defunded, per a source briefed on the plan. The plan was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
