The FBI Director Christopher WRAY announced that he would resign from his position at the end of the administration and left before the inauguration of President Donald Trump next month.
On Wednesday, he presented at the Bureau headquarters at the indoor viewing of the FBI with the FBI staff.
“After a few weeks of thinking, I made a retirement after I decided to serve until the end of the current administration in January,” he said. “My goal is to focus on our mission. It’s an essential thing to be on behalf of Americans every day. This is the best way to avoid deeply drawing the soup. And principles “
Wray continues to say, “Not to mention it, but I’ll say it anyway.” “I like this place, like our mission, love our people, but my focus is that we are always doing the right thing for the FBI.”
Thousands of people in the FBI office all over the country have adjusted the live stream of speech. As WRAY said, some cried. At the end of his remarks, he received a standing ovation for more than one minute until Wray left the room.
The next president welcomed WRAY’s announcement in a social media post and called it a “wonderful day for the United States.”
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WRAY said in the FBI’s class and files, “We are either … we are not on the side of Americans.” We must try to do our work in the right way with strictness and sincerity. “
Attorney General Merrick Galland praised WRAY and said, “As a FBI director under the president of both parties, he has honestly served our country for seven years.”
“The FBI director is responsible for protecting the FBI’s independence from inappropriate impacts on the crime investigation.” “That independence is central to preserving the rule of law and protecting the freedom we value as an American. Wray has done it with sincerity and technology.”
The decision of the Wray was “briefly” and wrestled with this decision. After all, the focus of Wray is focusing on doing the best work for the FBI, sources said. WRAY was concerned that if he stayed, the attack would be raised to a political fight when the threat level rose on several fronts.
The FBI directors were appointed for ten years, which was to historically isolate its position in political consideration. But the president has the authority to dismiss and nominate at will, and many FBI directors have not provided full conditions. The Senate must also vote to check the presidential candidate to serve as the FBI director.
Wray’s presentation summarizes the way Patel In Trump’s second term, I am leading the FBI. PATEL meets senators who will vote for their confirmation in the parliament.
Wray and FBI leadership was the goal of Trump’s IRE in 2022 when the FBI agent executed court approval. search warrant In his Mar-A-Lago residence in Florida. The search was exposed to the classified record processing after Trump left the office. The survey ended with a criminal prosecution for Trump, which was raised by a special lawyer, Jack Smith, but was then rejected by the federal judge. Trump denied his mistake without guilty.
When confirmed, PATEL will be the third FBI director working according to the Trump administration, and will take over the federal law enforcement devices of the state in intense criticisms from his allies in the hills of Trump and Parliament. While WRAY is expected to start a job, but Trump announced that it plans to nominate PATEL among federal enforcement agencies on whether WRAY will resign before Trump’s inauguration.
WRAY acquired the post after Trump fired James Comey. Robert Muller’s promise As a special lawyer for that case. Afterwards, Komi, a spokesman for the next president, discovered a confrontation between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party when he left the FBI’s best job.
Since 2017, WRAY has focused on internal issues such as recruitment and national security issues such as responding to China’s espionage campaigns. He was alerted by foreign efforts aimed at the US infrastructure and warned of Iran and Russia’s aggressive attitude.
The FBI employs about 35,000 people, including thousands of field agents, and employs nationwide crimes, including terrorism, spies and exploitation of children.
The PATEL, which can be a replacement for Wray, represents his criticism of federal agencies, and he said he would implement large -scale reforms and seek retaliation for Trump. The media is lying about American citizens who emphasized the presidential election. ”
According to his words, writing to Bureau’s employees is “to conduct an investigation without fear or favor, and that does not pursue the investigation when there is no prediction.”
Patel will report directly to the US Attorney General.
The plans to name Trump’s 44 -year -old Patel as the FBI director was criticized by the Democratic Party’s Democrats and some former executives of Trump’s first term.
In Trump’s first term, John Bolton, a national security adviser, compared the nomination with Joseph Stalin’s secret police chief.
“Fortunately, the FBI is not Stalin’s secret police, Bolton said. “Senate must reject this nomination 100-0.”
But the Republican members of the Parliamentary Party seemed to have been held in this choice and insisted that he could change the FBI.
