Josh Hawley Torches Wray, Mayorkas Over Drone Sightings: ‘This Is Really Weird’

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is demanding accountability from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as mysterious drone sightings continue to plague the United States, particularly in New Jersey and surrounding Northeast states.

While speaking with Fox News, Hawley noted that Wray and Mayorkas postponed their yearly “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland” hearing, which was scheduled for November 20. The two high-ranking officials would have been forced to testify before the U.S. Senate about emerging national security threats, though the meeting was postponed until an undisclosed date in December. 

With December more than halfway over, a new hearing date has yet to be announced.

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“The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, and the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, were supposed to testify under oath in the Senate on threats to the homeland. It’s a hearing that they have to do every year. They canceled it a couple of weeks ago, they have refused to re-schedule,” Hawley said, adding that department aides will be giving a briefing behind closed doors only on Thursday. 

“They do not want to talk about this in public. They don’t want to answer questions about it. This is really weird and it’s getting weirder, they need to level with the American people,” the senator added.

Mayorkas and Wray’s decision to skip the hearing generated anger on both sides of the aisle.  

“Their choice to not provide public testimony about their departments’ efforts to address wide-ranging national security threats robs the American people of critical information and the opportunity for public accountability of what the federal government is doing to keep Americans safe,” Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, said in a statement. The Democrat lawmaker added that the cancellation marks the first time in 15 years that both the FBI director and DHS secretary have together refused to offer public testimony on threats to the homeland, calling it a “shocking departure.”

A separate hearing before the House Homeland Security committee also was postponed.

When asked why little to no information about the drones has been released by federal officials, Hawley stated that the American people are “getting the total runaround.”

The conservative senator then pointed to numerous statements from senior Biden Administration officials, including Mayorkas and National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby, who have blamed the uptick in drone sightings on misidentified aircraft and civilian-owned drones.

“But here’s the deal Jesse, when we’re shutting down air force bases, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base gets shut down for a while. When commercial airliners are interfered with, they can’t do their flight patterns because of these drones up,” Hawley told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “That’s weird. You can’t tell me the government doesn’t know what’s going on here, and the fact they will not brief us, they will not level with us, they won’t answer questions in public; there’s something really strange that’s going on.”

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