Jordan and Johnson Wrote Him After Wray Did Not Answer

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Fox News (Gregg Re, May 18, 2020) reported that Reps. Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson said FBI Director Christopher Wray had “declined to respond” to their May 4 letter seeking information and interviews after the Flynn-case disclosures. The same story quotes their letter to agent Joe Pientka: “Because Director Wray has declined to respond to our request, we are forced to write to you directly.” They asked him to sit for a transcribed House Judiciary interview.

A prior Fox piece that month said the same members demanded that Wray produce Priestap and Pientka after the Flynn filings. Those are letters and a news account. They are not a hearing transcript. They are not a finding that the FBI “hid” him as a legal conclusion. The phrase “hidden from scrutiny” in later roundups is commentary.

Jordan’s public line in that Fox story was “Where is Christopher Wray?” That is a member’s remark, as reported. This site does not invent a Trump quote about the letter.

Sources

Gregg Re, Fox News, May 18, 2020. “Where is Christopher Wray?” Jordan/Johnson letter to Pientka. www.foxnews.com

Fox News, May 2020. Republicans demand interviews with Priestap and Pientka. www.foxnews.com

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

The director would not produce the agent. The committee wrote the agent. That is how you know the name mattered. A letter is not a deposition. It is the ask they did not want on C-SPAN.