Quote:In March, FBI Director Kash Patel made a major move regarding the 2017 congressional baseball practice shooting and provided the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence all the documents they had requested regarding the incident. In a joint statement, the Judiciary, Intelligence, and Oversight committees issued a scathing joint report Tuesday alleging that the FBI bungled their investigation and tried to cover up the political motivations of the shooter:

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.

Here’s what went down the day, as I reported recently:

Doubtless you’ll remember the awful shooting at a practice for the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game for Charity where 66-year-old James Hodgkinson first confirmed that Republicans were playing, then unleashed over 60 rounds from his SKS 7.62mm rifle. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was severely injured and spent months in recovery, while four other victims were also hit. It could have been much worse without the heroics of Capitol and Alexandria Police, who took out Hodgkinson after a 10-minute shootout.

It was a clear act of political violence perpetrated by a madman who hated Republicans, which is why it wasn’t an even bigger news story. If the shooter had been a white supremacist MAGA lover spraying bullets at Democrats, we’d see wall-to-wall coverage every time the month of June and the anniversary of the shooting rolled around.

Despite the shooter’s clear political motivations gleaned from social media (including being a member of a Facebook group named “Terminate the Republican Party”), the FBI initially categorized the shooting as “suicide by cop” and didn’t change the classification for four years despite the obvious fallacy of their determination.

The Committees said the Bureau made plenty of other maneuvers to shade the truth:

“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.”

“The FBI used false statements, manipulation of known facts, and biased and butchered analysis to support a narrative that Hodgkinson committed suicide by cop without any nexus to domestic terrorism.”

The Committees further revealed that a handwritten note made it quite clear what really happened, but the feds ignored it:

That suppressed evidence includes key details about a handwritten note found on [shooter] Hodgkinson that listed several Republicans as targets.

At the time, the FBI said it found a sheet of paper that had names of six members of Congress, but did not elaborate.

GOP lawmakers argued that the case file made clear the attack was a “premeditated assassination attempt on Republican congressmen by a radical, left-wing political extremist, who was seeking to affect the conduct of our government.”

Americans have lost a lot of trust in the formerly revered institution that became politicized over time and was then morphed into an outright weapon by first Obama and then Biden. Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and the House GOP Committees are working hard to clear out the rot, but there’s a lot of mud in that swamp. This report proves it once again.

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I think Trump should have fired every FBI agent and exec in DC and started over with field promotions from elsewhere.

(05-06-2025 02:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I think Trump should have fired every FBI agent and exec in DC and started over with field promotions from elsewhere.

They should've been sent to the Barrow Alaska Field Office.

(05-06-2025 02:13 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(05-06-2025 02:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I think Trump should have fired every FBI agent and exec in DC and started over with field promotions from elsewhere.

They should've been sent to the Barrow Alaska Field Office.

Nah, they could still muck up the system a bit from there. Even if not, it's still not a harsh enough punishment.

Sending them to Russia seems like a better idea. Traitors.

They should at least fire every person in the chain of command of that particular case. Any one of them could have blown the whistle on what was a vital investigation.

(05-06-2025 02:44 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-06-2025 02:13 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(05-06-2025 02:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I think Trump should have fired every FBI agent and exec in DC and started over with field promotions from elsewhere.

They should've been sent to the Barrow Alaska Field Office.

Nah, they could still muck up the system a bit from there. Even if not, it's still not a harsh enough punishment.

Sending them to Russia seems like a better idea. Traitors.

Send them to one of those islands in Alaska where you actually can see Russia.

(05-06-2025 02:01 PM)TripleA Wrote:  I think Trump should have fired every FBI agent and exec in DC and started over with field promotions from elsewhere.

Yep. Have said the same thing. Keeping ANYONE involved in what we endured over the last near decade coming out of the seventh floor is a terrible mistake.

Even if you can't fire these complicit crooks, they can sure as hell be reassigned to Kenai or Int'l Falls.

Oh, and see about knocking them down the GS scale a rung or two as well. Maybe 3. Traitors.