Wray must not have any curiosity or doesn’t want to know.
I think if I were Wray maybe I wouldn’t want to have read the thing until after it’s released so that I don’t have to testify to anything in it.
Um… has he been provided with the report? Is he entitled or empowered to ask for one? Is a copy sitting on his desk and he’s just been too busy?
It’s impossible to evaluate his statement in isolation from any other information.
No, and no.
Not TPM’s best article ever, no.
Well it’s live and I assume currently going on so guessing the just sent a blurb and a link to alert you to watch
OK, that’s a fair point. Thanks.
Wray’s position makes sense. As FBI chief, there may be something in the report that could trigger an investigation of a sitting president. Without at least having the report in hand, and preferably in public circulation, that would be a very sensitive political and constitutional matter.
They are no doubt keeping a tight lid on this thing, precisely because of what happened last night. The bigger the circle of people who have access, the greater the chance of it being leaked.
So I could understand Wray not wanting to be in that circle. Because, even though they are keeping it tight, the circle is inevitably getting a little bigger each day. By specifically NOT including yourself in that gradually growing circle, he removes himself from accusations of being the leaker.
I agree that Barr and the White House and Ezra Cohen Watnick are doing their best to keep the Report in the exclusive possession of Barr. I don’t really see it that Wray is trying to avoid reading it. I think he ought to have been given a copy and I think it shows the intent of AG Barr that not even the fucking Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been trusted to read the report without the white washing that Barr is currently conducting. Anyway, that is my assumption. And I’m sticking to it.
FBI Director Wray: ‘I Have Not’ Read The Mueller Report
Having been appointed to his position by Toadglans, he might not be reading the report in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. He might realize that Barr needs to be taken out to the woodshed and Toadglans needs to be taken out to the stockade.
I see that @tiowally has a convert to the nickname toadglans. Today, the TPM board. Tomorrow, the World! But I agree with you.
@jacksonhts @tiowally
Yes, I’m a convert. Sometimes I refer to THE WORLD-WIDE ASSHOLE as Orange Anus Trumplethinskin Toadglans, an amalgamation of multiple colorful descriptors that fail to attain even one-tenth the disgust I feel for the worthless hate-filled pathological-lying miscreant.