FBI Director Chris Wray, appointed by former President Donald Trump, testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
conducted by the Justice Department's inspector general. Durham pursued prosecutions of three people as a result of his investigation, two of whom were acquitted. The third, a former FBI lawyer, pleaded guilty.
During questions about a rise in threats to law enforcement after FBI agents executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, including anof a FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wray lamented that it's not only officers who have been targeted, but their families. In defense of FBI employees, Wray told lawmakers that their work extends beyond investigations that grab headlines — agents have arrested 20,000 violent criminals and child predators last year, and is involved in 300 investigations targeting the leadership of drug cartels, he said.
"It would hurt the American people, neighborhoods and communities all across this country — the people we are protecting from cartels, violent criminals, gang members, predators, foreign and domestic terrorists, cyberattacks," he said, adding stripping the FBI of its funding would help"violent gangs and cartels, foreign terrorists, Chinese spies, hackers and so forth."
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