Two top Republicans of the House Judiciary Committee on Monday requested FBI Director Christopher Wray to “immediately review” his agency’s actions in its investigation of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
The two congressmen also sought to question two individuals, former FBI head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap and FBI agent Joe Pientka, about their actions related to the retired three-star U.S. Army general.
“We write to request that you immediately review the actions of the FBI in targeting LTG Flynn,” Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Johnson (R-La.) wrote in a letter to Wray (pdf). “The American people continue to learn troubling details about the politicization and misconduct at the highest levels of the FBI during the Obama-Biden administration.”
Jordan, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, and Johnson, the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, gave Wray a deadline of May 18 to provide the information they requested and to facilitate the interviews with Priestap and Pientka.
They also asked Wray to explain when he “personally first learned of the FBI’s misconduct with respect to LTG Flynn,” explain “why the Committee and the American public are learning of the FBI’s misconduct with respect to LTG Flynn from court filings rather than from [Wray],” and explain “whether [Wray] or any other member of the FBI’s senior leadership prevented or delayed the disclosure of additional exculpatory information to LTG Flynn and his legal team.”
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11.26.2024