Posted on 05/15/2021 7:30:49 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The FBI quietly admitted Friday that the 2017 Alexandria, Virginia, baseball field shooting that nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise has been classified as “domestic terrorism” carried out by a “domestic violent extremist” targeting Republicans after the bureau previously classified it as “suicide by cop.”
The revelation appears in the middle of an appendix on page 35 of a 40-page FBI-DHS report released on Friday titled “Security Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism.” In a section describing approximately 85 different “FBI-Designated Significant Domestic Terrorism Incidents in the United States from 2015 through 2019,” the Alexandria baseball field shooting appears, with the FBI categorizing the perpetrator as a “Domestic Violent Extremist” and describing the incident thusly: “An individual with a personalized violent ideology targeted and shot Republican members of Congress at a baseball field and wounded five people. The subject died as a result of engagement with law enforcement.”
In June 2017, James Hodgkinson, a man from Illinois who was living out of a van in Alexandria, opened fire at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park after asking GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan, who was leaving practice early, if the players were Republicans or Democrats. Hodgkinson struck Scalise in the hip, hit lobbyist Matt Mika in the chest, and injured two U.S. Capitol Police officers, Crystal Griner and David Bailey. Scalise nearly bled to death and required multiple surgeries before returning to Congress.
Hodgkinson, an avid liberal and supporter of Democratic presidential primary candidate and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, was killed by law enforcement. He had posted on Facebook that “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” and joined other groups such as "Terminate The Republican Party" and "Join The Resistance Worldwide!!"
Last month, the FBI had said that the shooting would have been classified as "domestic terrorism" if it happened today, but that seemed to dance around the issue of how it should properly be classified. Earlier in April, Republican congressmen had criticized the decision by the FBI, led in an acting capacity at the time by Andrew McCabe, not to label the shooting by Hodgkinson as domestic terrorism despite his targeting of elected Republican leaders as they practiced for the annual congressional baseball game, calling upon FBI Director Christopher Wray, who has led the bureau since August 2017, to provide answers.
Lying is a way of life in the FBIAS.
So they are willing to admit it as long as the media doesn’t notice?
Can there be anything left to the reputation of the once heralded FBI? One misstep after another.
Not much trust left there either.
Yep.
50 years from now our federal government may even acknowledge the 2020 election was stolen.
The FBI, CIA, IRS, DOJ, etc., are all deep-staters.
Good. Now arrest Bernie as the cause of it. If Trump can be the cause of insurrection, Bernie is definatively the cause of attempted murder!
The contrast between the baseball shooting and January 6th could not be any stronger. The difference? Dems are using Jan 6th to advance their agenda while the GOP did nothing in 2017-18 when this mattered. One side wants to win. The other does not.
Why was the GOP not pounding hell out of the FBI to admit it was a Democrat terrorist attack in 2017 when this mattered? Obviously, they didn’t want to support Trump in his battle against fascist Democrats.
FBI is run by a satanic cabal
So, they finally admit this after first telling Congress that it was “suicide by cop”. How interesting.
FBI defends ‘suicide by cop’ designation for 2017 baseball field shooting https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/29/fbi-suicide-by-cop-2017-baseball-shooting-485002
House GOP hits FBI’s ‘suicide by cop’ ruling in 2017 attack on congressmen https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/11/house-gop-hits-fbis-suicide-cop-ruling-2017-attack/
So, since they told Congress, in 2017, that it was suicide by cop, when they knew it wasn’t, does that mean that those that conducted the briefing lied to Congress? Thereby committing Perjury.
Why do you say they are, heralded?
They’re only heralded by themselves and the government that uses them as US version of the Stasi/KGB.
Most of their cases wreak of entrapment. And the only reason they get away with most of the convictions they do is most of the defendants cannot afford to fight them or the DOJ. And federal sentencing guidelines allow federal judges to impose a longer sentence if you “waste the courts time” and are found guilty, instead of taking the plea.
The left almost 100% controls the media. We only hear what they want us to hear.
I had lost trust in the CIA and the IRS long ago. The FBI joined that list over the last four years. They’re all disgraceful organizations.
Domestic terrorism AGAINST Republicans... Not BY Republicans.
By a Democrat, encouraged by other Democrats.
There are many in the govt and NS forces that are starting to lean hard on them. Dissolution and rebuilding the organization is now necessary.
When something really, really has a stench, Andrew McCabe’s name is there in the stew.
Nothing new, really. John Kerry’s “anti-war” group plotted to kill congressmen in the 1970s to end support for the Vietnam War.
Major props to the FBI, they really are improving!
They are Democrats. They don't get punished for perjury.
Wow, I’m qualified to be an FBI agent.
We knew that the day of the event. /The FBI is a terrorist organization
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