JAKARTA - FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he would resign from office at the end of Joe Biden's administration. Wray left the FBI before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump next month.

Wray made the announcement at the FBI headquarters filled with FBI members on Wednesday, December 11.

"After weeks of thinking carefully, I decided the right thing for the FBI was that I served until the end of the current administration in January and then resigned," he said as quoted by CBS News, Thursday, December 12.

My goal is to stay focused on our mission the much-needed work you do every day on behalf of the American people. In my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the FBI further into a dispute, as well as strengthening our involvement in this. very important values and principles in the way we do our job, "said Wray.

He insists he really likes his job at the FBI.

"I love our mission, and I love our people, but my focus is on doing what's right for the FBI," he said.

Thousands of people from the FBI office in the US watched a live broadcast of his speech. Several people cried as Wray spoke. At the end of his remarks, he received a lively applause that lasted for more than a minute, until Wray left the room.


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