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FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wray spoke to one of the nation's largest police groups on Saturday, Oct. 14 about how the agency works with police around the country, including helping secure an indictment against two men accused in the death of a small-town Michigan teenager caught in an international online sexual extortion scheme. There's recently been a sharp in increase in such cases. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FBI says terrorism threat hits ‘a whole other level’ after Hamas attack

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Call for ‘Day of Jihad’ prompts greater vigilance by FBI, Jewish groups

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Rioters supporting President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Christopher Wray pushes back on claims that FBI agents, Ray Epps instigated Jan. 6 riot

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Law enforcement officials say, Taylor Taranto, a man wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives. Taranto was seen a few blocks from the former president's home, and he fled even though he was chased by U.S. Secret Service agents. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

FBI whistleblower: Deputy director told subordinates to hide Jan. 6 informants

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FBI chief Wray refuses to tell Congress who authorized memo targeting Catholics

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray departs after testifying before a House Committee on the Judiciary oversight hearing, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

FBI Director Wray dodges questions about dirty tricks in probes of Hunter Biden, Trump

By Kerry Picket and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, listens as FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, to discuss recent law enforcement action in transnational security threats case. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Five questions FBI Director Wray must answer when he’s grilled by the House Judiciary Committee

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of the Navy's budget request for fiscal year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Gaetz asks FBI’s Wray for answers about a BLM-demonstrating agent who got promoted

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 27, 2023. The FBI has offered to show top lawmakers next week a bureau document that purports to relate to President Joe Biden and his family following weeks of demands by congressional Republicans and a contempt threat against Director Christopher Wray. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

House committee tees up contempt vote against FBI Director Wray

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after he and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, met with FBI officials to view confidential documents Comer demanded in his investigation of President Joe Biden's family, Monday, June 5, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

House oversight chairman: FBI says Biden bribery investigation active, involves shell companies

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to supporters of Kentucky republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft, during a campaign stop in Elizabethtown, Ky., Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Comer to review subpoenaed FBI doc related to alleged Biden bribery scheme

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Phone call between Comer, Wray keeps contempt threat over FBI director’s head

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

An explosive device is shown outside of the Republican National Committee office, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, federal agents were working at the same time to detonate this pipe bomb and another, found just blocks away at the offices of the Republican and Democratic National Committees. (AP Photo, File)

Lawmakers demand FBI explain slow pace of investigation of pipe bombs at RNC, DNC in 2021

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Appropriations subcommittee Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing for Fiscal Year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FBI director: 22% budget cut will hurt agency’s fight against violent crime, espionage

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray speaks during a news conference to announce an international ransomware enforcement action, at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. The FBI has seized the website of a prolific ransomware gang that has heavily targeted hospitals and other healthcare providers. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Wray: FBI assessed long ago that COVID likely caused by China lab leak

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Jordan calls for more documents on FBI’s rescinded anti-Catholic memo

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Biggs tells FBI director GOP lawmakers undecided on reauthorization of FISA over past abuses

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland, accompanied by FBI Director Christopher Wray, right, takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to discuss new and recent enforcement actions to disrupt and prosecute criminal Russian activity. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FiLE**

New House Judiciary panel subpoenas Garland, Wray over FBI targeting of parents

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Members of the New Orleans Police Department investigate a carjacking scene on N. Pierce St. that resulted in an elderly woman's death in New Orleans, La., Monday, March 21, 2022. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

Hidden COVID crisis: Violent juvenile crime exploded amid school shutdowns

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Thursday that his agents are investigating several instances where someone in the U.S. weaponized a drone by adding an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

FBI says illegal weaponized drones are ‘here now’ in U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times