FBI director faces lawmakers during House Judiciary Committee hearingABC 7 New York
Washington, DC,
July 12, 2023
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By Luke Barr FBI Director Christopher Wray faced a grilling from lawmakers 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. |