“We do not recruit, open, or operate confidential human sources to infiltrate, target, report on religious organizations,” Wray said. “That product did not, to as best as we can tell, result in any investigative action as a result of it.”
Jordan and other members of the committee asked Wray why he has not released the names of the FBI agents involved in crafting the memo and why the FBI has refused to provide an unredacted copy of it. Jordan said he and other members of the committee would like to speak with those involved.
Wray told the committee that the FBI is conducting an internal review of the memo, which will likely be completed later this summer. He said he would provide the committee with a briefing on the findings. He would not commit to providing the names of the agents involved in approving the memo or providing an unredacted copy but said he would look into possibly providing a document with fewer redactions.
“I will find out if there’s more of the document that can be shared with you,” Wray told Jordan. “We’ve tried to be very careful with what we redact and there’s always a basis for it, so let me go back and see if there’s more that we can provide. But I know my instructions are to be as sparing as possible in the redactions that we provide.”
“We will work collaboratively with the committee,” Wray said. “We obviously have rules that govern what we can share and we have to be mindful of those too, but in my experience, that’s what the long-standing accommodation process between the executive branch … and Congress … we absolutely will pursue that in good faith.”
When Rep. Ben Cline, R-Virginia, inquired whether anyone would be fired over the creation of this memo, Wray again said he would wait until the completion of the internal review before making a decision on that.