Posted on 05/09/2021 7:53:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A mere week after a gunman tried to kill more than two dozen Republican senators, House members and staffers on an Alexandria baseball complex, FBI supervisors spoke to the press to deliver their verdicts.
James T. Hodgkinson’s gust of 70 rifle and handgun rounds, while positioned like a sniper behind the third base dugout and then on the move, was not terrorism, nor was it planned, they said at the June 21, 2017, briefing.
“At this point in the investigation, it appears more spontaneous,” said Timothy Slater, FBI special agent in charge of the Washington field office, in what proved to be the bureau’s public accounting.
By November, the FBI was ready to brief privately the more than a dozen Republicans who had gathered at sunrise that June 14 for the final practice before the annual congressional charity baseball game versus Democrats at Nationals Park.
The bottom line stunned the Hodgkinson-targeted lawmakers assembled in the U.S. Capitol visitors center.
Mr. Hodgkinson was committing “suicide by cop,” the FBI briefer said. In essence, the bureau had relegated the near-mass killings aimed at Washington’s legislative branch to a self-centered personal decision by a leftist activist from Illinois.
“What are you talking about?” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio Republican, recalls asking the briefer.
“I said ‘if you want to do suicide-by-cop, just pull a gun on the cop,’” he told The Washington Times in an interview. “‘Where are you getting this?’ They just kind of stood by it. We were pretty dismayed.”
By that fall, the attack on a dozen or more Republicans had fast-faded from Washington media consciousness. Conservative pundits asserted that the “memory hole” stemmed from the wrong formula: a backer of Sen. Bernie Sanders like Hodgkinson trying to murder Republicans was not as good a story line as a Donald Trump...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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Lindsey Graham added $$$ to the FBI in the first or second Porkulus.
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Can someone name for me a single aspect of the FBI that is not corrupt to the core and/or politicized?
REMINDER: FBI COVERED UP BERNIE SUPPORTER’S MASS SHOOTING OF REPUBLICANS
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3655117/posts
Rep. Steve Scalise says congressional baseball shooting was like ‘rebuilding Humpty Dumpty’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3590021/posts
James T. Hodgkinson
https://freerepublic.com/tag/hodgkinson/index?tab=articles
The only thing worth keeping at this point is tge FBI lab.
If this doesn't indicate planning at the outset then I am a monkey's uncle ...
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the Tribulation. Vintage movie but made a lasting impression on me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QeZYtApatY
The FeralBootlickerInterrogators is an ass (and DOJ,CIA)
I have two takeaways from this article;
1) Lindsey Graham has always been someone to never trust & the article confirms it.
2) The FBI has gone from the most admired law enforcement agency in the world to one of the worst and it started very soon after J. Edgar Hoover died.
That shooting incident was a golden opportunity to put the Rats on defense and depict them as the radical commies that they are. This is war folks. The Republicucks are playing tiddly winks.
Splinters?? There should be NO trust.
The FBI has told Americans in no unceratin terms that they don’t care what we think.
Thanks for the link, looks interesting (albeit long).
Why would anybody trust the FBI at this point?
I’m willing to believe that FBI field agents have the right attitude and wish to uphold the highest standards of integrity. OTOH I absolutely refuse to believe that there’s a single “suit” in the Hoover building who can even *spell* the word integrity.
NO!
The Fraudulent Bureau of Investigation.An organization specializing in investigating in the legal activities of Conservative Political Parties and their members while ignoring criminal activities of the Party Presently in power.
If the Conservatives ever regain control of the Presidency and the Congress the Entire 7th floor of the FBI needs a complete cleaning. The entire senior management needs to bee terminated.
That go’s double for the corrupt CIA. An organization who’s responsibility is to provide the President with intelligence from around the world.Not to include the United States.
These intelligence agencies need to be place on a much tighter and shorter leash. They have become involved in domestic politics too the harm of the American people.
The fbi is NOT the “freind” of the average american citizen. peter strozk, lisa page, mccabe, rosenstien... are NOT the “outliers”! They are the example. I don’t know who they get their orders from, but I can tell you for ABSOLUTE certain that it is NOT US!
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