Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: The FBI’s latest scandal should be strike three for Christopher Wray
, “The FBI’s former top spy hunter in New York was charged Monday with taking secret cash payments of more than $225,000 while overseeing highly sensitive cases, and breaking the law by trying to get Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska removed from a U.S. sanctions list — accusations that shocked the cloistered world of his fellow high-ranking intelligence officials.” A separate criminal indictment arising out of D.C.
The Jan. 6 committee report’s damning conclusion: “Federal and local law enforcement authorities were in possession of multiple streams of intelligence predicting violence directed at the Capitol prior to January 6th. Although some of that intelligence was fragmentary, it should have been sufficient to warrant far more vigorous preparations for the security of the joint session.
One would think that a failure of this magnitude would set off an exhaustive self-investigation coupled with detailed findings and steps to remedy the problems uncovered. That omission would seem to be a failure of leadership nearly on par with the operational failure itself.
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