Yet Just the News reportedly has the subpoenas and states they were dated Nov. 20, 2017, with the materials to be sent to the Department of Justice by Dec. 5, 2017.

Comey was fired in May 2017, and Wray began his tenure in August 2017. It is not clear if this targeting of congressional staffers began under Comey.

It is hard to imagine such an extraordinary move being taken without the director’s knowledge.

So Wray is either engaging in willful blindness or failed to exercise control of his own department.

[It’s perfectly clear that it at least continued under Wray, and given the dates of the subpoenas, escalated under him at least. And all of this strongly suggests that Wray lied to Congress last week, unless the FBI under Wray has gone so rogue as to push subpoenas targeting congressional staff without involving the FBI director in that decision. Either way, Wray needs to go. — Ed]