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.
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.
Did the left control Congress in 2017? Nope. The GOP did.
2017 was also when the GOP was lying to the House about Spygate. Bottom line is the GOP had no interest in providing substantive oversight of the FIB because that would have validated President Trump’s positions and increased his political capital. That would have moved the MAGA agenda forward and that was the last thing Ryan and China Mitch wanted.
Most of the GOP are Assistant Democrats, TransRepublicans.
Whose side are they on at the FBI?
Don’t answer that. It was rhetorical.
Nominee for best post of the day. So right.
Reminds me of the government extremists who spied on a presidential candidate using fictional information submitted by political opponents and continued their grand plan for years.
Deny and wait long enough and the story dies a slow death and is forgotten.
ok, now what about the picnic train incident?
Unfortunately, there are communist borg running most of government now,
They knew it, and the refusal to admit it is criminal. The left wanted it to happen and is OK with it.
If anyone did so much as to touch Pelosi the FBI would conduct a nationwide search for conspirators and label the whole thing as an insurrection.
Dirty cops organization that should be gutted from top to bottom and started again. They wander between being just dirty cops and being the American KGB/Gestapo.
No, the FBI started its flush when Mueller took over. That rat-bastid came out of the Frisco (California) office. When they did that, I knew it was trouble. Why do you think the DNC chose him to “investigate” Russian collusion?
The FBI is a terrorist organization, so, think of the cover-up and long delay as professional courtesy.
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