Wray will not back down--memo:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. When you have 35,000 employees - this is the right thing to do..

Very well said - professionalism during business as UNUSUAL!!!!!

[SummerSnow]

2. Translation: Eff you Trump and Nunes

[PunksMom]

7. Exactly!

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Trump is done.

His best hope was to gut the DOJ and the FBI and to fill both agencies with lackeys. What happens at the DOJ is yet to be seen, but the FBI looks like it will be fully intact. And royally pissed at Trump.

[maxsolomon]

6. Fun dayn moyl zu Got's oyem.

Trump has been at it one year out of 4 (or, ugh, 8). "Done" is a long way from where we are.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Cant he put anybody in there? Cant he put his golfing buddy in there?

I am asking, i dont know.

Remember, rule of law, etc., means NOTHING to them. Taking care not to harm the FBI, LAST thing he cares about

[Gothmog]

4. Statement from the FBI Agents Association

Link to tweet

[Hassler]

20. If Rudy Ghouliani knows anything . . .

... the NY bureau is exempt from this statement.

[honest.abe]

5. Sounds like this stupid memo stunt is backfiring.

Cheers!

[juxtaposed]

27. why do you say?

[AlexSFCA]

8. repubs always underestimate fbi

those people have integrity, it’s very difficult to get a job there, some of brightest folks work there

[OldHippieChick]

9. For a short while I was buying the idea that Wray

should quit if the memo was released as a show of defiance, but I think this is the better response and I am glad we will continue to have principled people in control.

[Cha]

15. I know, right!

[politicaljunkie41910]

19. Oh I always thought he should stick with it and make the Dotard fire him.

[meadowlander]

10. Why is this an "internal communication"?

Seriously, Wray. Stand by your agents publicly.

[Honeycombe8]

23. It should be an internal memo to the agents.

A personal communication to them. It has to do with their work and the office. He's reassuring them. He's not doing it for public consumption.

[meadowlander]

30. I've worked for similar organizations

and when we got memos like this it was because we were being publicly attacked and our management didn't want to stand up for us in the press no matter how ill informed or unjust the attacks were. It's just breadcrumbs to the troops to make sure they don't mutiny while the public face of the organization nods and does nothing about public lies and misconceptions.

If he actually believed it, he would be telling the NYT, not sending an internal memo to be leaked to the NYT.

[Honeycombe8]

31. That was your experience. This is the FBI. They don't normally do office memos & send them for

publication.

[meadowlander]

32. They didn't send this one for publication either.

The NYT "obtained" the internal memo probably from a pissed off staff member who received in internally.

It doesn't change the fact that if Christopher Wray wanted to actually stand up for his staff there are a lot of ways he could have done it besides sending a memo to those staff internally as opposed to, you know, picking up the phone and saying what he had to say on the record to the press directly.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Exactly. He did it properly. The FBI doesn't normally send out its communications with agents...

over the public internet. Geez. Some people are just looking for issues.

[Cha]

11. Yay, Wray!!!!

Mahalo, King

[sheshe2]

12. 'Wray' to go, Wray!

A true patriot, Cha.

[Cha]

14. lol.. Indeed, she!

We were discussing this yesterday.. in that some thought Chris Wray should resign in protest.. and then there were the rumors..

But, we thought he should "stay, stand, and Fight".

That's why all the extras !!! on my "Yay, Wray!!!" post.

For the Planet

[sheshe2]

16. Stand and Fight.

Hope he is one of Donnies worst nightmares.

[WheelWalker]

22. Rule #1: Face the danger.

[sheshe2]

24. You are correct.

[Cha]

28. Here's to Chris Wray and Robert Mueller, she!

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Awright, Wray. Over there. End of the line behind Rosenstein and Brand . . . . .

[jaxind]

17. OK, Countdown....

OK, countdown to how many minutes it will take tRUMP to start villifying Wray! After all the glowing tweets and statements he has made about Wray from the time that he brought Wray into the position of FBI director, now tRUMP will do his usual U-turn and turn on the hate!

[RestoreAmerica2020]

18. Saturday massacre, Wray? Noone defies el rey!

[Honeycombe8]

21. Good memo to the agents. Great! I think Trump WANTS him to quit.

So he can say, well he left on his own. I had nothing to do with it. And then he can pick a tool like Nunes.

[smirkymonkey]

25. Good to hear!

[spanone]

29. K&R...