“9/11 was a gamechanger in so many terrible ways, not just for the United States and for our own national security apparatus but for the whole world. And those attacks blew apart any notion of separation between foreign and domestic threats, any notion that such attacks only happen to other people in other countries.”

American attorney

Christopher Asher Wray is an American attorney who served as the eighth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2017 to 2025. He was born in 1966. Nominated by President Donald Trump to replace James Comey, Wray was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30 and took office on August 2, 2017, beginning a 10-year term. His public record is tied to federal law enforcement and the leadership of the FBI.