FBI Director Christopher Wray confessed Thursday he left an August Senate oversight hearing to hike the Adirondacks.
using the official FBI jet — confirming The Post’s initial scoop despite initially indicating it was a “business” obligation.
“that the reason that the hearing had to be cut short is because you were flying on a Gulfstream jet for a personal vacation in the Adirondacks.”The FBI honcho went hiking after ducking out of a U.S. Senate hearing.Wray argued the hearing wasn’t cut short because “we had agreed beforehand on the time and length of it” before adding: “As to how I fly — I am required, not only permitted but required, to fly on an FBI plane wherever I go.
“You had to leave a hearing early because you’re gonna see him later in Iowa?” Hawley asked incredulously. After an intervention by Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin , who noted Wray was making his “third appearance in two years before this committee,” the FBI director was excused.
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