FBI Director Christopher Wray's Thursday statement represents a disgraceful attempt to silence critics by conflating condemnation of the bureau's conduct with violence and threats against law enforcement
By calling criticism "attacks" and then immediately warning the country of the danger "violence and threats" against the FBI pose, Wray deceitfully framed legitimate speech as violence or, at a minimum, the threat of violence
The object of this framing is obvious: to silence Americans who have finally found their voice following the FBI's raid of Trump's private residence at Mar-a-Lago
There is nothing "unfounded" about any of these criticisms
The double standard appears also to apply to Hunter Biden, unless the FBI somehow succeeded in quietly searching his residences without anyone's notice.
If Wray sees the men and women of the FBI doing their jobs professionally and with rigor, objectivity, and a fierce commitment to our mission of protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution, then why did these whistleblowers only come forward?
Were they not as rigorous and committed as Wray thought?
Margot Cleveland is The Federalist’s senior legal correspondent
She is also a contributor to National Review Online, the Washington Examiner, Aleteia, and Townhall.com.
Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize-the law school's highest honor. She later served as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/12/fbi-director-calls-legit-criticism-of-corrupt-fbi-violence-but-we-werent-born-yesterday/
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