It’s sure not the FBI we watched on TV.

Excerpts from The Daily Caller report:

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday told FBI Director Christopher Wray it is “indefensible” that he previously fled an oversight hearing regarding his agency’s handling of Hunter Biden’s potential criminal activity.

“So you were going on vacation?” the senator asked. “I was, yes,” Wray said.

“So you left a statutorily required oversight hearing in order to go on a personal vacation in the Adirondacks,” Hawley said.

“The ranking member Chuck Grassley asked you during the hearing, he said, ‘I assume you must have other business.’ You said, ‘Yes.’ He then said, ‘If you have a business trip, you’ve got your own plane, can’t it wait awhile?’

Chuck Grassley: ‘We only just heard half an hour ago that now you have to leave. We were gonna have a seven-minute round followed by a three-minute round. I’ve got seven people on my side of the aisle, including me, who are waiting for this additional round. Is there any reason we can’t accommodate them for 21 minutes?’ And you said you had a plane to catch, you had somewhere to go, and now we find out it was for vacation?” Hawley said.

“You left an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee required by statute so that you could vacation with your family. I find that absolutely unbelievable, and frankly, indefensible,” the senator said.

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Someday there will be a day of reckoning for these partisan criminal hacks, many of whom ought to be in jail. Once justice has been delivered to the miscreants, the next step should be determining not only if the FBI can be reformed, but if it should exist at all. This writer leans toward the latter. The United States survived for nearly a century-and-a-half without having need of a Federal police force. It can do without it now.