The Judiciary Committee will coom to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight of the federal bureau of investigation. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Thank you, director wray, for appearing for the first time in front of this committee and thank you for your service to our country in your new position. There is much to discuss today, and we look forward to your answers. The president recently tweeted that the fbi is in tatters. While some will take umbrage with President Trumps assertion, it does appear to me that at the very least the fbis reputation as an impartial, nonpolitical agency has been called into question recently. We cannot afford for the fbi, which has traditionally been dubbed the premier Law Enforcement agency in the world, to become tainted by politicization or the perception of a lack of evenhandedness. Questions regarding the fbis imparti
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Flooding. Undrinkable. The only thing that changed was the water source. Dangerous amounts of lead changing one communitys water supply. Mob boss turned convict. The real Whitey Bulger. And we begin on a deadly airstrike on Doctors Without Borders in afghanistan. 22 people including children were killed. Who was responsible. Questions were deflected. There were denials. The days went by without an answer. And then they admitted that the u. S. Ordered the attack and called it a mistake. Good evening, john, youre right. After four days of shifting explanations, the top military in afghanistan put it plainly. The u. S. Military was to blame on the attack in northern afghanistan, but general John Campbell is making headlines for another part of his testimony. Hes openly promoting a change to the president s plan to withdraw all of americas forces by the end of next year. A hospital was mistakenly struck. It was a stark admission by the top command center afghanistan. Who left no doubt who
The committee would want to do is compromise or interfere with that. We have to go through a process how we can be sensitive to those operational considerations while at the same time be responsive to congress and this committee and its oversight responsibility. I thank jim for yielding. We have been in communication with the Inspector General and respect the investigation that is taking place there. And we have asked the department of justice and through them the federal bureau of investigation for all of the 1. 2 million documents that have been provided to the Inspector General. Minus those that relate to any particular ongoing grand jury investigation. Now, i have received back from the assistant attorney general mr. Boyd, a letter indicating that they will make a full some response to that request. So i would like in following up with mr. Issas question to hear you tell us that you will also provide us with that honoring of that request because most of those documents that departm