Wray Update
Remember the other day when I characterized Wray’s sudden departure from Senate hearings as flipping them off? Apparently some other folks also think he should have pushed his vacay plans back a tad:
Representatives Elise Stefanik, Chair of the House Republican Conference, James Comer, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member, and Mike Turner, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Ranking Member co-signed the letter.“We write to conduct oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) use of Government aircraft and compliance with the applicable Federal regulations and requirements,” reads the letter, first obtained by Fox News. “We have questions about whether you are properly reimbursing federal taxpayers for your personal travel aboard government aircraft.”
This was not the director’s first round-trip getaway using the FBI plane. On June 2, the plane traveled to Saranac Lake on June 2 and returned to Washington, D.C. on June 5. Wray is required to reimburse the cost of a coach class airline fare when the plane is used for personal trips, but it costs several thousand dollars per hour to operate the Gulfstream, the paper noted.
Government plane travel is authorized for “official purposes” and can only be used for informal travel when no commercial air is available or would cost more, according to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance, Fox News noted.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "Your Tax Dollars At Work"
Its part of the new Green Deal that Biden is pushing. Everyone above GS15 gets a Gulf Stream.
I don’t see what all the bitching and moaning is about. After all, we just had a Kongress Kritter take the Fam on a vacay to the Far East on the Taxpayers dime and that’s halfway around the world. Wray vacay is only about 400 air miles away and only takes about an hour’s total flight time. He’s gotta keep the Company Plane close by in case he needs to get back in a hurry to oversee the serving of a sealed indictment warrant. For those that need it I’ll leave this here…/S/
Just another example from the power hungry despots as to why we can’t have nice things and we are 30 TRILLION $s in debt.
Or when Hillary used her State Department position as a ruse to fly around the world on our dime to shake down dictators for her family “charity”.
Not to mention Malig-Nancy Pelosi keeping a USG Jet at her disposal along with spending six-digit sums of OUR money on booze!
https://youtu.be/ZCqh5ROtQRg
Odd… tracking (of the FBI Gulfstream g550, previously youtubed departing Rotterdam, Holland in January 2020), has been turned off per the “owner”…N616RK – BANK OF UTAH TRUSTEE (SALT LAKE CITY UT)This aircraft (N616RK) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator.
Hmmmmmm……..so if “something” were to “happen” to that plane in mid flight………it couldn’t be tracked………the passengers couldn’t be found or recovered…….all hands lost….hmmmmmmmmm…….
Then again, I do recall John Sunnunu jetting off to New Hampshire frequently to get his hair cut. There was very little bitchin’ ’bout that. Just saying.
Wray is probably up there with Sununu… From Wikipedia:
Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel. Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security. Sununu became the subject of much late-night television humor over the incident. Sununu worsened the situation shortly afterwards when, after leaking rumors of financial difficulties in his family, he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie’s auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine, spending $5,000 on rare stamps. Sununu then sent the car and driver back to Washington unoccupied while he returned on a corporate jet. Sununu resigned his White House post on December 4, 1991. Sununu repaid over $47,000 to the government for the flights.
If they are not going to disestablish the FBI as they should, they could move their headquarters to flyover country.