FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared for a segment on 60 Minutes Sunday night, during which he was asked about President-elect Donald Trump‘s nominee for his post, Kash Patel.
CBS anchor Scott Pelley asked Wray if he was concerned that the FBI could be turned against him because Patel listed him as a member of the “deep state” in his 2023 book, Government Gangsters, and Patel’s pledge to root out perceived corruption and retaliate against perceived enemies if he is confirmed.
Wray initially refused to answer the question, saying, “You know, I’m not going to weigh in on specific people or their rhetoric. From where I sit, facts and the law drive investigations, not politics or partisan preferences.”
When Pelley pressed the FBI director on Patel’s labeling of him as “corrupt,” Wray drew on his background as a “strict, by-the-book law enforcement…
