How the Media Misrepresented the FBI Director's Comments on Spying

FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on May 7, was asked a series of questions on the topic of spying and surveillance on the Trump campaign.

Wray’s answers to the questions posed by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) have been widely misrepresented and misreported. Media outlets such as The Washington Post and CNN published headlines claiming that Wray had said there was no evidence of spying on the Trump campaign. There also were multiple claims that Wray had directly refuted statements by Attorney General William Barr.