Wray Hangs On With FBI Besieged by Trump and GOP’s Russia Probe
- Bureau director copes with protests, policing and GOP probes
- Trump has Wray on informal probation: ‘Let’s see what happens’
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While Christopher Wray’s boss, Attorney General William Barr, stood in front of the White House on live TV this month making sure federal officers followed orders to push back demonstrators, the FBI director was doing his job far from the cameras.
Working behind the scenes, Wray helped set up a command center at the FBI’s Washington field office to coordinate the federal response to protests after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. He communicated with command centers in the bureau’s 56 field office across the country and put the FBI’s elite tactical Hostage Rescue team on standby in Washington.