The FBI’s Briefing On The GOP Baseball Shooting Couldn’t Have Been More Bizarre

Federalist, the ^ | 22 June 2017 | Mollie Hemingway

[Slyfox]

If the guy had a written list, guns, stored ammo, motive, opportunity and actually did it - I would say it was an act of terror.

But then again, I am not the all-knowledgable FBI.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Whoever authored and approved this report should be fired immediately.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Why don’t they have a new Director at the FBI yet? Questions but no answers. Maddening is right.

[Texas Eagle]

THIS needs to be investigated. Who is the person who came to these conclusions?

[Geronimo]

So it also has nothing to do with Todd Frazier of the Chicago White Sox being the worst hitting 3rd baseman in the MLB?...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#1 "This is maddening"

Our daily reality has become something only Orwell and Kafka could foresee. When you can't trust the G-Men, who can you trust?

And more than a day later we still don't have any official ID of who it was who attacked the LEO in the Michigan airport.

[rktman]

Yeah, but there wasn’t enough for any reasonable prosecutor to take it to a grand jury. Oh, wait. That was hildabeast. DOH!

[lakecumberlandvet]

When the FBI becomes incapable and/or unwilling to INVESTIGATE then what we’re left with is a Federal Bureau. Not good.

[montag813]

Sounds like McCabe as as detestable and incompetent as Mueller and Comey before him.

[Steve_Seattle]

What is wrong with the FBI? This is insane. The guy clearly hated Republicans, and deliberately stalked and targeted them. I am also suspicious that the New York Times just happened to mention that the Republicans practiced at a field with little security. Why would they mention that?

[ptsal]

Did Bernie’s office staff print the list?

[NorthMountain]

When an assassin specifically attacks Republicans and ONLY Republicans, it’s fairly obvious that his intent was to injure or kill Republicans.

[DesertRhino]

The FBI is completely corrupt and is nothing more than a deep state machine. Despite a few brave agents going after bank robbers, and some of their science based work, etc, it has always been a corrupt agency. It was created that way by that homo J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover was a pure distilled Wilson era progressive with all that implies.
He specialized in information gathering and then using it for blackmail against politicians and others.

That un-American mentality is hard wired into that agency. In bank robbers, they’ll be honest. With anything remotely political, they simply cannot be trusted.

[rktman]

Probably not. The letter head address was some house on a lakefront which any caring dem would never ow.............oh.

[DungeonMaster]

More of the swamp is exposed. Drain it!

[Cboldt]

-- Ran down the list of condemning actions and items all of which pointed to pre-mediation, and then baldly announced the assassination attempt was "spontaneous" --

That pattern is what got Comey the top job. Of course it is going to be emulated.

[anton]

The FBI at its administrative levels sucks. Always has, always will.

I was naive to it until Richard Jewell. After that, I wouldn’t piss on any of them if they were on fire.

[ptsal]

The closing paragraph from her article:

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The FBI’s briefing appears so contrary to the facts as to be insulting. When a man with a history of hating Republicans cases a location, takes pictures, verifies the targets are Republicans before opening fire, has a list of Republican politicians in his pocket, and shoots and nearly kills Republicans, it’s hard to swallow the FBI’s contention that the shooting was “spontaneous” with “no target.” The agency should reconsider whether it wants to troll Americans about something this serious.

[9YearLurker]

Molly has really been coming into her own this year with consistently good work.

[Cboldt]

-- Trump has nominated Christopher Wray from FBI Director. It may surprise you to learn that the ball is now in McConnell's court. --

Not until Trump transmits the nomination in writing. Nominations received in last month.

The WH has a nominations page too, the search can be done from either "sent" or "received" direction.