Transcript of 12/5/23 hearing

Transcript of 12/5/23 hearing Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on FBI Oversight LIST OF PANEL MEMBERS AND WITNESSES DICK DURBIN: The Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order. Today we continue our work to restore the committee's traditional oversight role, which I have tried to work on since I've become chair. Director Wray, your testimony marks the fourth time you've appeared before this committee since January of 2021. I want to begin by thanking you for the work that you and more than 35,000 FBI employees do to protect America and uphold our Constitution. I'm troubled that the FBI is facing baseless claims that you have been weaponized for political purposes and dangerous calls to defend the agency. There are people listening to that sort of rhetoric. This irresponsible -- irresponsible charge has real consequences. Just last month, a man from Tennessee pled guilty to a December 2022 plot to attack the Knoxville FBI office and kill the agents involved in