Cristopher Wray - testifying now at confirmation hearing - What are your thoughts?

[Stinky The Clown]

I know very little about the guy. He has one black mark just by virtue of who appointed him.

What are others' thoughts?

[brooklynite]

1. Chuck Grassley:"my first series of questions will seem like softball..."

[Glorfindel]

2. I trust Sam Nunn. His glowing recommendation convinced me.

After all, what does former Senator Nunn have to gain by misleading the public about Mr. Wray? Not a thing. Nunn was much more conservative than I am, but he was always a Democrat through-and-through. It was a loss to Georgia and the nation when he decided to retire.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Nunn and Wray were concurrent partners at King & Spalding. They got each other's backs.

[Glorfindel]

10. What's wrong with that? I had a cousin who worked at K&S for several years.

According to her, it's a top-notch law firm. She went on to teach at Harvard after working there. After all, Nunn could hardly recommend someone he didn't even know.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. Just stating the fact. I worked there, too. That's how I know.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. So it's common for large and prominent law firms To have attorneys of all ideological stripes.

All I ask is that Wray follow the law.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Picked by Trump...

...is enough for me.

[Skidmore]

4. Grassley must ave gotten orders

to trash Comey t every opportunity.

[blogslut]

6. He's sure good at brown-nosing Grassley

[Thrill]

7. How is a President that's under FBI investigation

Allowed to nominate a FBI director? Democrats shouldn't even be allowing him a hearing.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. So far he seems OK, but Chuck Grasshole is his usual odious self.

Feinstein is up; she will ask more useful questions.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. This article just posted on Slate "Christpher Wray Will Not Be Trump's Stooge"

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/07/christopher_wray_will_not_be_trump_s_stooge.html


The president wants his FBI director to do his bidding. Too bad he’s nominated another James Comey.

By Leon Neyfakh

Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director hasn’t even gotten through the first step of his confirmation process, and the president has already tried to use him.


You can be forgiven for not noticing: It happened on June 7, the morning before James Comey was set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Trump surely knew how much anticipation had been building for Comey’s testimony, and he couldn’t have been happy about it. (When he said back in January that Comey had “become more famous than me,” he didn’t mean it in a nice way.) And so, Trump got on Twitter and broke a little news:

I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2017
Despite all the normal caveats about how Trump may not be sophisticated enough to deploy tweets as a distraction mechanism, it’s hard to believe the timing here was an accident. More likely, Trump’s naming of Christopher Wray was meant to coincide with the avalanche of coverage the president knew was coming as soon as Comey was sworn in the next day. Like a lovelorn high school senior making a point of talking to his new girlfriend in front of an ex who’d dumped him, Trump looked to be projecting strength and steadiness. Have your little hearing, he seemed to be saying. I’ll just be over here with my new FBI director.

The move didn’t work. Wray, a total unknown outside the federal law enforcement community, was the furthest thing from a splashy “statement” pick. Instead of finding someone who might chart a defiant new course at the FBI—someone like Joe Lieberman, the former senator, who was reportedly under consideration before Wray got the nod—he’d settled on a former federal prosecutor who identified strongly with the institutional culture of the Justice Department and the FBI. In other words, he’d picked another James Comey.

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[Orsino]

13. Needs to be asked, and made to answer...

..."Did anyone in the Administration interview you, and if so what expectations were set for your performance, accountability and loyalty?"

[standingtall]

14. There is no friggin way Trump should be allowed to appoint anyone as the head of the FBI

In a just America.Trump wold not have appointed this guy if he didn't think this guy was going to protect him.