The Oversight Project has filed a criminal referral with the Department of Justice and FBI, demanding federal authorities investigate former FBI Director Christopher Wray for allegedly providing false and misleading testimony to Congress during his tenure.
The watchdog organization cited specific statements Wray made on four separate occasions between 2020 and 2023.
These dates include September 24, 2020; March 2, 2021; July 12, 2023 and December 5, 2023.
The alleged false statements centered on two critical areas: voter fraud concerns and the FBI’s targeting of Catholic Americans.
Both issues have become flashpoints in the debate over federal law enforcement practices.
During a September 2020 hearing before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Wray testified that “we have not seen historically any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”
Months later, in March 2021 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Wray stated, “We are not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome in the Presidential election.”
These statements, however, now face scrutiny following revelations from current FBI Director Kash Patel.
Patel recently provided Congress with an FBI intelligence report dated August 2020 that documented concerns about China mass-producing counterfeit US driver’s licenses.
The intelligence report revealed that these fake licenses were allegedly intended for fraudulent mail-in ballot casting in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden.
Border Patrol agents had seized approximately 20,000 counterfeit driver’s licenses on August 5, 2020, according to Oversight Project’s reporting.
FBI Director Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino issued a joint statement Tuesday addressing the matter
They declared that “based on our continued review and production of FBI documents related to the CCP’s plot to interfere in the 2020 US Presidential election, previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people.”
The statement continued, describing this as “exposing the weaponization of law enforcement for political purposes during the height of the 2020 election season.”
The Oversight Project highlighted testimony from Nikki Floris, who served as Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism at the FBI.
In October 2019, Floris warned that “make no mistake, China is aggressively pursuing foreign influence operations.”
Floris “routinely, if not daily, briefed FBI Director Christopher Wray on threats to the integrity of the 2020 election,” according to the Oversight Project.
This suggests Wray had regular access to information about foreign election interference attempts.
The organization emphasized Wray’s position and responsibilities, stating that “ultimately, Wray was the FBI Director. He was briefed constantly by Floris on this specific topic, and he was certainly aware this topic was a matter of burning national interest and would be raised in any oversight hearing.”
The second area of concern involves the FBI’s treatment of Catholic Americans.
The Oversight Project referenced an FBI memo that identified Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, The Post Millennial outlined.
When questioned about this intelligence memorandum during a July 2023 hearing, Wray responded that “what I can tell you is you’re referring to the Richmond product which is a single product by a single field office which as soon as I found out about it I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.”
During a December 2023 Senate Judiciary hearing, Wray further claimed that “this notion that the other field offices were involved is a garble and let me explain why I say that.”
“The only involvement of the two other field offices was the Richmond authors of the product included two sentences or thereabouts references each of these other office’s cases.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) contradicted this characterization in June, revealing that “there wasn’t just one FBI document that used biased anti-Catholic sources, but over a dozen.”
Grassley discovered that the Richmond memo had reached over 1,000 FBI agents nationwide before becoming public.
The Oversight Project challenged Wray’s testimony as fundamentally inaccurate.
They argued that his statements failed to reveal both the scope of the memo’s production and distribution, as well as the existence of additional materials on the subject.
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