The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives despite having handwritten evidence, a blistering House report found.
The House Judiciary Committee, Intelligence Committee and Intelligence Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigation released the scathing, unclassified report on its findings Tuesday after combing through roughly 3,000 case file documents it was given last month on the attack that wounded six, including current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and led to the death of gunman James T. Hodgkinson.
“This is the same FBI that can’t tell us who planted the pipe bomb [on Jan. 6, 2021], who can’t tell us who leaked the Dobbs opinion and who can tell us who put cocaine at the White House,” House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) chided Tuesday morning.
“We shouldn’t be surprised that they reached the wrong conclusion. They knew what the facts were.”
Shortly after Hodgkinson’s June 14, 2017, attack on a Republican practice session for the congressional baseball game in suburban Alexandria, Va., the FBI wrote up an executive intelligence briefing that concluded he wanted to commit “suicide by cop.”
Four years later, in 2021, the FBI abruptly changed its determination — without new evidence, according to Tuesday’s report — to conclude that Hodgkinson’s attack was actually motivated by domestic violent extremism.
“The FBI then spent the next four years privately guarding the basis for its determinations by impeding Congressional oversight,” the report assessed. “It was not until the FBI was investigating January 6 protesters and the application of Congressional pressure that the FBI changed course.”
— Ryan King in FBI ‘butchered’ 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes
Show me one person who is surprised by the FBI’s behavior and I’ll show you a fool.
I wonder how many records they deleted during the Biden Admin.
I b-e-t* they were real busy after the election last year.
*avoiding comment moderation
I had to do gymnastics to get comments to post on the first two pages I looked at here today. Absurd.
Still a whole lotta Whitey Bulger’s FBI to clean out over there.
The FBI is overtly political. It shouldn’t be. It seems to me this “botched job” was an attempt by democratic party operatives to conceal the fact of violent left wing extremism