WASHINGTON, D.C. – FBI Director Christopher Wray sat down with FOX entertainment channel on Tuesday for a wide-ranging interview, discussing threats and the Bureau’s dedication to protecting the American people.
During the interview, Director Wray affirmed the FBI’s commitment to objectively seeking facts, upholding the Constitution, and protecting the American people. Additionally, Director Wray confirmed that the Bureau has assessed that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China.
“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” Wray said. “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government… has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our US government and close foreign partners are doing.”
He also emphasized his pride in the Bureau’s dedicated workforce.
“We have 38,000 men and women at the FBI, not one of whom is a political appointee,” Wray said. “Every single one of them is career law enforcement… what I see is an FBI full of people who are tackling the work with bravery, with rigor, with objectivity, and who put others, complete strangers, before themselves every single day. And I will stack our workforce up against anyone, anywhere, anytime.”
Director Wray explained that too often, the standard for whether an investigation, a court decision, or an election is fair is whether a particular group believes their side won or lost.
“That’s not how independence and objectivity work. We are not on either side. The FBI is on the American people’s side, on the Constitution’s side.”
(PHOTO: FBI Director Wray with a FOX entertainment news actor.)
