{"id":109320,"date":"2017-08-01T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109320"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:15:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T02:15:29","slug":"us-senate-confirms-christopher-wray-as-new-fbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/01\/us-senate-confirms-christopher-wray-as-new-fbi-director\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senate confirms Christopher Wray as new FBI director"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Department of Justice portrait of Christopher A. Wray as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. (Photo By US Department of Justice – https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal\/history\/assistant-attorneys-general\/christopher-a-wray, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 — The US Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Christopher A. Wray as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/p>\n

Wray, with a 92-5 vote, replaces James Comey who was abruptly fired by US President Donald Trump in May as investigators were looking into possible links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.<\/p>\n

At Wray’s nomination debate on Tuesday afternoon, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said “this is a tough time to take this tough job.”<\/p>\n

“The previous FBI director, as we know, was fired because of the Russia investigation. The former acting attorney general was fired. And we’ve had a slew of other firings throughout the government over the last few months,” she said.<\/p>\n

In June, Wray was nominated by Trump to succeed Comey as the FBI director.<\/p>\n

During a confirmation hearing last month, Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would strive for independence, in light of that Trump had allegedly asked for loyalty from the then-FBI leader.<\/p>\n

“My commitment is to the rule of law, to the Constitution, to follow the facts wherever they may lead,” Wray said.<\/p>\n

“There isn’t a person on this planet whose lobbying or influence could convince to just drop or abandon a properly predicated and meritorious investigation,” he added.<\/p>\n

Born into a family of New York lawyers, Wray graduated in 1989 from Yale University and got a law degree in 1992 from the Yale Law School.<\/p>\n

Wray was later hired as a Justice Department prosecutor for years before rising to assistant general in charge of overseeing fraud investigations.<\/p>\n

In 2005, he resigned to join private practice as a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding.<\/p>\n

Under US law, the FBI director serve a single 10-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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