The Oversight Project, a watchdog organization, has called upon the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate former FBI Director Christopher Wray for allegedly making false statements to Congress. The referral, submitted on June 26, 2025, points to testimony Wray provided on four occasions from 2020 through 2023, concerning voter fraud and the FBI's surveillance of Catholic Americans.
During his tenure, Wray appeared before several congressional committees and made declarations regarding the absence of coordinated voter fraud and the FBI's conduct towards Catholic Americans. Notably, on September 24, 2020, before the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, he stated that the FBI had not identified any national voter fraud efforts in significant elections. Additionally, in a March 2021 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Wray asserted a lack of widespread voter fraud evidence that could have influenced the presidential election outcome.
These statements have recently come under scrutiny following disclosures by current FBI Director Kash Patel. An FBI report from August 2020, unveiled by Patel, documented Chinese-made counterfeit US driver’s licenses that could potentially be used for fraudulent voting. Border Patrol agents had seized about 20,000 such licenses before the 2020 elections, raising concerns about foreign interference.
A joint statement from Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino criticized the previous FBI leadership for politicizing the bureau and concealing vital information from the public during the 2020 election. The Oversight Project further emphasized the regular briefings Wray received from Nikki Floris, then Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, which casts doubt on Wray's unawareness of election integrity threats.
Another controversy involves an FBI memo that labeled Catholics as potential domestic terrorists. Wray's response to inquiries about this memo during a July 2023 hearing and his subsequent comments in December 2023 have been contested by Senator Chuck Grassley's findings. Grassley revealed that the memo had reached over a thousand FBI agents and that there were multiple documents citing anti-Catholic sources, contradicting Wray's attempts to downplay the issue.
The Oversight Project's criminal referral suggests that Wray's congressional testimony was not only misleading but also omitted crucial information about the distribution of the Catholic memo and the extent of election interference intelligence. This move by the watchdog group has sparked a new wave of scrutiny over the FBI's actions and transparency, potentially leading to significant legal and political ramifications.
