Wray was far better than most (not all) of Trump's FBI candidates. But I suspect we didn't get a guy who had a good idea of how to turn the tables on a bully.
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Wray is one of the ~4 people outside of Mueller's team who has best visibility on what Mueller is doing, today, tomorrow, next week. Maybe he thinks if he can buy a week all the momentum will shift. But how many concessions has he already made on FBI independence?
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Replying to @emptywheel
Has he made a substantive concession yet? The work goes on just the same with McCabe and Baker’s replacements.
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Would we for sure know? Agree work goes on w/McCabe and Baker replacements--and am actually intrigued by pick of Harmon at CoS for his Hanssen background. But what if Trump fires Rosenstein overnight?
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I agree we wouldn’t know; I just think people are assuming we have evidence of the FBI being compromised when we might only have evidence of Wray doing what it takes to appease Trump.
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Right. The problem is, are Wray (and Rosenstein) in sufficient control of the situation they can manage him when it comes time to say no. I don't know how we answer that Q.
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