May 17, 2023
FBI Director Christopher Wray's response to the Durham report was less than reassuring. Wray acknowledged that the FBI has "implemented dozens of corrective actions" that "could have prevented the missteps" Durham identified if they had been in place in 2016. Director Wray is either misinformed or he's lying. Either way, he's clearly wrong. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy put it: "Just so I have this straight, we've implemented new FBI training so that agents know they shouldn't swear in [FISA] court applications to the truth of political opposition research that they haven't corroborated? What was the prior training that said that was OK?" As John Durham noted, additional rules and regulations are fruitless if fidelity and integrity don't mean anything. The sad fact is that nothing has been done to prevent the brazen politicization that happened in 2016. I know that because the brazen politicization is still happe