Wray also went on offense against a number of GOP allegations – saying it is 'ludicrous' to suggested that anyone from the agency was involved in the January 6th attack and 'somewhat absurd' to accuse the FBI of working with social media companies to suppress information on COVID-19 origins.
'Consider the fact that the FBI was the only the only agency the entire intelligence community to assess it's more likely than not that was the explanation,' he said.
Jordan insisted the FBI had worked with social media companies to censor speech – on everything from the Hunter Biden laptop to covid origins and vaccines and mail-in voting.
'That's exactly what you did,' said the chairman. 'And the judge said it last week. Every week people meeting with big tech companies say “Hey, look at this, this violates your policy, take this speech of Americans down.'”
He was referring to a Missouri case where a judge blocked the White House, FBI and DOJ from contacting social media companies due to collusion concerns.
Earlier this week the committee released a report based on documents subpoenaed from Meta and Alphabet finding that after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's intelligence agency enlisted the FBI to help combat 'Russian disinformation' on social media.
The FBI transmitted Ukraine's takedown requests to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., asked Wray how many undercover agents were at the Capitol complex on Jan. 6.
'I'm not sure there were undercover agents,' said Wray.
“I find that kind of a remarkable statement,' said Biggs. 'You don't know?'
'I say that because I want to be very careful. There have been a number of court filings related to these topics.'
'Are you acknowledging then there were undercover agents?' Biggs pressed.
'As I sit here right now i do not believe there were undercover agents,' said Wray. 'Did you have any assets that day present in the crowd?' said Biggs.
'When it comes to … confidential human sources, that's a place where again I want to be careful. There are court filings,' said Wray.