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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Christopher Wray

FBI Director Christopher Wray answers questions during an interview, in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, August 21, 2024. (Abbie Parr/AP)
December 11, 2024, 11:43 pm
FBI director Wray says he will resign before Trump takes office
Ties between bureau chief and president who appointed him soured due to Russian 2016 election interference probe, further deteriorated after court-approved raid on Florida home
By Agencies
FBI Director Christopher Wray answers questions during an interview, in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, August 21, 2024. (Abbie Parr/AP)
August 22, 2024, 8:25 am
FBI director worried as US faces multiple threats ‘elevated all at once’
From cybercrime to terrorism, Christopher Wray says there is a peak of different dangers, urges partnership between law enforcement agencies and other entities
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
April 18, 2024, 6:05 am
FBI director says probes of anti-Jewish hate crimes tripled in months after Oct. 7
In call with Jewish leaders and security officials, Christopher Wray says threat against Jews has ‘elevated’ since Hamas onslaught, warns Iran’s proxies could attack on US soil
By Ron Kampeas
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 11, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
April 11, 2024, 3:13 pm
After ISIS attack in Moscow, FBI chief warns similar plans may be brewing in US
Christopher Wray set to tell Congress that never in his career have threats to public safety and national security been so significant
By Andrew Goudsward
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies to a Congressional committee in Washington, DC, January 31, 2024. (Julia Nikhinson / AFP)
February 15, 2024, 4:15 pm
FBI director makes unannounced visit to Israel, meets with Shin Bet and Mossad reps
Christopher Wray also meets with FBI agents stationed in Tel Aviv, emphasizes importance of their work on Hamas and Hezbollah in wake of October 7
By AFP and ToI Staff
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 31, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
October 31, 2023, 8:17 pm
FBI director: Hamas could carry out attacks on US soil; antisemitism at historic high
In Senate testimony, Christopher Wray warns Oct. 7 atrocities ‘will serve as an inspiration’ to extremists, says Jewish community is ‘targeted by terrorists across the spectrum’
By AFP and JTA
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray prepares to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 15, 2022 in Washington, DC (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / Getty Images via AFP)
November 19, 2022, 6:10 pm
FBI director says US Jews under threat ‘from all sides’ amid rise in antisemitism
According to Christopher Wray, some 63% of religious hate crimes are motivated by Jew-hatred; hate crimes and domestic terrorism warnings raised to ‘national priority’
By ToI Staff
An Illustration of a man holding his phone with an NSO Group logo with a computer screen in the background, in Jerusalem, on February 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 13, 2022, 8:42 am
FBI came close to deploying NSO’s spyware, may use similar tools in future – report
New York Times says officials from US agency pushed for use of controversial Israel-made tech before shelving plans amid negative publicity
By ToI Staff
FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 2, 2021. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
August 11, 2022, 3:32 am
FBI director Wray denounces violent threats following search of Trump’s home
Agency head calls threatening rhetoric ‘dangerous and deplorable’ as far right commenters online call for assassinations and insurrection
By MARGERY A. BECK
FBI director Christopher Wray testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, on May 25, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Pool Photo via AP, File)
June 1, 2022, 7:32 pm
FBI says it thwarted Iranian cyberattack on Boston Children’s Hospital
Bureau’s director says agents learned of planned digital strike from unspecified intelligence partner, got medical center the info needed to block it
By Eric Tucker and Alan Suderman
Head of the Shin Bet security service Ronen Bar leaves his home in Rishpon, central Israel, October 11, 2021. (Flash90)
March 13, 2022, 4:39 pm
Visiting Washington, Shin Bet head warns of Ramadan flare-up with Palestinians
Security agency and IDF warn tensions during Muslim holiday, which coincides with Passover, could lead to escalation, echoing concern raised recently by Biden administration
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
In this file photo taken on January 6, 2021, riot police push back a crowd of supporters of US President Donald Trump after they stormed the Capitol building in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
March 2, 2021, 11:33 pm
FBI chief says US Capitol riot was domestic terrorism, defends handling of intel
Chris Wray highlights concern about rise in extremist violence, including from militias and white supremacists as agency adapts from focus on international terror in wake of 9/11
By Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK
District of Columbia National Guard stand outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, after a day of rioting protesters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
January 22, 2021, 11:16 pm
Biden to review ‘serious, growing national security threat’ from domestic groups
US law enforcement and intelligence may pivot from focus on overseas terror toward the threats posed by violent extremism at home
By Eric Tucker
US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after pleading not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a southern border wall, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
November 6, 2020, 5:48 pm
Twitter bans former Trump adviser Bannon for call to behead Fauci, FBI chief
Bannon urged putting the officials’ heads ‘on pikes’ as ‘a warning to federal bureaucrats’; Twitter permanently suspends account for ‘glorification of violence’
By AFP
US President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on school choice in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, December 9, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)
December 9, 2019, 11:24 pm
Watchdog report says FBI’s Russia probe justified, no political bias found
But Justice Department’s inspector general points to ‘serious performance failures’ by bureau; Trump maintains conclusions show ‘an attempted overthrow’
By MICHAEL BALSAMO
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