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Why would Christopher Wray go from a lawyer making $9 million a year to settling for less making $172,000 as the Director of the US F.B.I.?

Brandi NoBarExam West
2 min readMay 31, 2020

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This George Floyd story has been getting a lot of attention from news and people on social media. But there are a lot of gaps in the story. People just read anything from the news and react it without question.

I am aware of how news is used as propaganda. So I been research and shit. I was on CNN website going over the headlines from stories and videos about the this police killing. Note, there are over 200 types of content from CNN in a matter of 5 days related to George Floyd.

Nonetheless, I was reading one article that stated, “The FBI is investigating the incident. . .” Then I started thinking how do we know that the FBI is investigating and what are the requirements for a FBI investigation. After doing my own research, I found the Joint Statement Of United States Attorney Erica MacDonald And FBI Special Agent In Charge Rainer Drolshagen from the Department of Justice.

I used an outside resource to learn about the FBI. I learned that the FBI was started in the early 1900s on July 26, 1908 during the Roosevelt era. Roosevelt appointed Attorney General Charles Bonaparte as the Director. Back then the FBI was just Bureau of Investigations. Then I learned that Roosevelt was preceded by McKinley. McKinley was assassinated.

Currently the FBI Director can only serve for a 10 year term. Back then directors…

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