Christopher A Wray was the government’s top criminal prosecutor in 2004 when the FBI director, Robert S. Mueller III, and the deputy attorney general, James B. Comey, threatened to quit the Bush administration over a controversial surveillance program. He offered to join their protest.
Now, with President Trump’s selection of Mr. Wray on Wednesday to be the director of the FBI, all three men will be central figures in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that has rocked the Trump administration. Mr. Mueller is leading the investigation into Russian influence — and the inquiry led Mr. Trump to