FBI Director Christopher Wray made “demonstrably untrue” statements last week during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, a Louisiana congressman alleges.
Wray was called by committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to answer questions about the possible politicization of the FBI.
“Chairman Jim Jordan and I are preparing a letter that we’ll issue probably Monday or Tuesday to ask the director to correct his testimony,” U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Fox News’ ‘Sunday Night in America.’
“We are going to point out the contradictions and what he said under oath, and we’ll start with that,” Johnson said.
“I think some of the answers he provided to us in the hearing were demonstrably untrue,” the congressman added. “It’s just a problem that scandal upon scandal continues to stack up.”
Johnson said he found it hard to believe that the director was not protecting President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and that the FBI was not involved in limiting free speech with social media companies.
“He was defiant, he was evasive, and really, he was standoffish to the Judiciary Committee, and of course, we have the important responsibility of oversight of his agency,” Johnson told Fox News.
In a press release last week, the FBI said Wray was outlining his position on a wide range of issues, including social media censorship.
“The FBI is not in the business of being the ‘truth police’ or telling any social media company to censor an account, and we don’t moderate content,” the press release claimed.
“The FBI is, as a law enforcement and intelligence agency, responsible for working with companies, in a fully lawful way, to protect our communities from child predators and terrorists, as well as hostile foreign countries like China, Russia, and Iran, looking to exploit social media platforms to commit crimes and threaten national security.”
Johnson noted that many Americans seem to view the FBI in a different light.
“The latest polling said that only 37 percent of Americans have any faith in the FBI,” Johnson said in the Fox Interview. “This is a threat to our entire system of justice. The people have to believe that they’re fair and impartial and we do have equal justice under the law, but right now under this leadership, we don’t.”