美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)建议对他在第一任期任命的领导该局的克里斯托弗·雷(Christopher Wray)进行刑事调查，此前一家保守派媒体报道称，美国联邦调查局特工参与了2021年1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击。
“我会想象。我当然可以想象。我认为他们正在这样做，”特朗普在接受NBC新闻的电话采访时被问及司法部是否应该调查雷时说。
特朗普在解雇前美国联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米后，于2017年任命雷领导该局。科米是起诉在特朗普公开敦促司法部长帕姆·邦迪(Pam Bondi)“现在”采取行动起诉他的敌人几天后，大陪审团上周对他的指控是向国会作出虚假陈述和阻碍国会调查。
科米在他的Instagram账户上发布了一段简短的视频，他说:“我为司法部感到心碎。我对联邦司法系统非常有信心，我是无辜的，所以让我们进行一次审判，并保持信念。”
雷选择在特朗普就任第二个任期之前离开该局，因为他担心特朗普解雇他可能会在该部门内引起动荡。雷还引起了特朗普对1月6日美国国会大厦起义和特朗普处理机密文件的选举干预的调查的愤怒，这两项调查都是在特朗普赢得2024年大选后放弃的。
特朗普首先开始建议司法部调查雷，此前保守派媒体The Blaze援引一名身份不明的国会消息人士的话说，上周有274名美国联邦调查局特工被安插在袭击国会大厦的亲特朗普暴徒中。
川普周六在他的社交媒体平台上宣传了这场大火的故事，他说，“刚刚透露，在1月6日的恶作剧之前和期间，美国联邦调查局违反所有规则、规定、协议和标准，在人群中秘密安置了274名美国联邦调查局特工。这不同于导演克里斯托弗·雷一遍又一遍的陈述!没错，事实证明，美国联邦调查局特工参与了1月6日的抗议活动，他们可能是煽动者和叛乱者，但肯定不是“执法官员”。"
“当时的美国联邦调查局馆长克里斯托弗·雷有一些重要的解释要做。这是连续两个，科米和雷，谁被发现说谎，我们伟大的国家处于危险之中。”
DOJ监察长办公室在2024年12月的一份报告中没有发现美国联邦调查局在抗议人群中有卧底员工的证据。它还表示，在大楼被暴徒攻破后，美国联邦调查局向国会大厦部署了战术资源，并有报道称在共和党和民主党全国党总部发现了两枚管状炸弹。
该报告还称，虽然华盛顿特区有26名线人，他们在美国联邦调查局被称为“机密人力资源”，或CHSs，但IG没有发现任何证据表明任何人被指示参加对国会大厦的袭击或以其他方式鼓励暴徒成员的非法活动。
IG的报告没有发现特工被派往国会大厦的过错，在那里执法部门不堪重负，犯下了数以千计的联邦罪行，从非法侵入和袭击联邦官员到煽动叛乱的阴谋。
目前尚不清楚雷是否会受到刑事调查，但特朗普周末接受NBC采访和他在社交媒体上的帖子显示，在科米被起诉后，他似乎越来越有勇气呼吁起诉更多的政治敌人。
特朗普上周在白宫外对记者发表评论时表示，他预计会对他的对手提出更多刑事指控，同时否认他向司法部领导层施加任何直接压力。
“这不是一份清单，但我认为还会有其他的，”特朗普告诉记者。“希望还会有其他的。”
Trump suggests false claims of FBI agents' involvement in Jan. 6 riot warrants investigation of former director Wray
President Donald Trump suggested a criminal investigation into Christopher Wray, his appointee to lead the bureau in his first term, after a conservative media outlet reported the false claim that FBI agents were involved in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
"I would imagine. I would certainly imagine. I would think they are doing that," Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News when asked whether the Justice Department should investigate Wray.
Trump appointed Wray to lead the bureau in 2017 after he fired former FBI Director James Comey. Comey wasindictedin a grand jury last week on charges of making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation after Trump just days before publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to act "now" to prosecute his foes.
In a brief video posted to his Instagram account, Comey said, "My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I am innocent, so let's have a trial, and keep the faith."
Wray opted to depart the bureau before Trump took office for his second term because he had fears that Trump firing him could cause turmoil within the department. Wray had also drawn Trump's ire over investigations into election interference from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Trump's handling of classified documents, both of which were dropped after Trump won the 2024 election.
Trump first began suggesting Wray should be be investigated by the Justice Department after the conservative outlet The Blaze, citing an unidentified congressional source, reported last week that 274 FBI agents had been embedded in the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol.
Trump promoted The Blaze's story on his social media platform on Saturday, saying "It was just revealed that the FBI had secretly placed, against all Rules, Regulations, Protocols, and Standards, 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th Hoax. This is different from what Director Christopher Wray stated, over and over again! That's right, as it now turns out, FBI Agents were at, and in, the January 6th Protest, probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists, but certainly not as "Law Enforcement Officials."
"Christopher Wray, the then Director of the FBI, has some major explaining to do. That's two in a row, Comey and Wray, who got caught LYING, with our Great Country at stake."
The DOJ's Office of the Inspector General found no evidence that the FBI had undercover employees in the protest crowd in a December 2024 report. It also said that the FBI deployed tactical resources to the Capitol after the building had been breached by rioters and reports of two pipe bombs discovered at the Republican and Democratic national party headquarters.
That report also said while there were 26 informants in Washington, D.C., who were dubbed within the FBI as "confidential human sources," or CHSs, the IG uncovered no evidence suggesting that any were instructed to join the assault on the Capitol or otherwise encourage illegal activity by members of the mob.
The IG report did not find fault with agents being sent to the Capitol where law enforcement had been overwhelmed and thousands of federal crimes had been committed, ranging from trespass and assault on federal officers to seditious conspiracy.
It's not immediately clear whether Wray will be placed under criminal investigation, but Trump's interview with NBC and his social media posts over the weekend show he appears to be increasingly emboldened in the wake of Comey's indictment to call for the prosecution of more political foes.
In comments to reporters outside of the White House last week, Trump suggested he expected more criminal charges to be brought against his opponents while denying he was applying any direct pressure to Justice Department leadership.
"It's not a list, but I think there will be others," Trump told reporters. "I hope there will be others."
