{"id":123076,"date":"2017-06-07T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=123076"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:55:08","slug":"wray-nominated-by-pres-fbi-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=123076","title":{"rendered":"Wray nominated by Pres., FBI, Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-123077\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher-333x175.jpg 333w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WrayChristopher.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Donald Trump says he&#8217;ll nominate a former Justice Department official as FBI director.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s tweets that his choice &#8212; lawyer Christopher Wray &#8212; is &#8220;a man of impeccable credentials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no more information in the two-sentence tweet that ends, &#8220;Details to follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wray emerged from a list of former prosecutors, politicians and law enforcement officials interviewed by Trump since the president fired FBI Director James Comey last month.<\/p>\n<p>Wray works at the King &amp; Spalding law firm. He represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case. Two former Christie aides were convicted of plotting to close bridge lanes to punish a Democratic mayor who wouldn&#8217;t endorse the Republican governor.<\/p>\n<p>Wray worked for the Justice Department under President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; President Donald Trump says he&#8217;ll nominate a former Justice Department official as FBI director. Trump&#8217;s tweets that his choice &#8212; lawyer Christopher Wray &#8212; is &#8220;a man of impeccable credentials.&#8221; There&#8217;s no more information in the two-sentence tweet that ends, &#8220;Details to follow.&#8221; Wray emerged from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123079,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123076\/revisions\/123079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}