Christopher Wray confirmed as new FBI director
Friday, 21/07/2017 17:12 (GMT+7)
The Senate Judiciary Committee on July 20th approved Christopher Wray to be the next FBI director.
FBI director Christopher Wray (Photo: EPA/VNA)
"His unanimous support by the Judiciary Committee today is a strong indication of our faith in his abilities to lead the FBI, and I look forward to confirming him on the Senate floor," Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the committee’s Republican chairman, said in a statement.
“I believe to my core that there’s only one right way to do this job,” Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “And that is with strict independence. By the book. Playing it straight. Faithful to the Constitution."
Wray graduated from Yale Law School in 1992. He served as assistant US attorney for the northern district of Georgia from 1997 through 2001. He went on to become associate deputy attorney general of the United States, eventually leading the Department of Justice's criminal division.
Christopher Wray would replace James Comey, who was abruptly fired by US President Donald Trump in May./.
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