What Christopher Wray’s Resignation Costs Us
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced that he would resign shortly before Donald Trump reenters the White House in January. Related From Slate It’s Looking Like Pete Hegseth Will Still Be Able to Drink Then, if the Kash Patel nomination fails in the Senate, Trump can exploit the FVRA to keep his acting FBI director in power for as long as two and a half years by pulling all of these legal levers that are available to him. Now it seems like Trump’s FBI director will be Kash Patel or someone vastly worse—that’s the choice now? Instead, he would’ve had to follow the FBI’s line of succession, which would have elevated deputy FBI director Paul Abbate, who is a Wray appointee with a lot of integrity and independence.
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