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FBI ‘butchered’ 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes
The New York Post ^ | 05/06/2025 | Ryan King

Posted on 05/06/2025 8:41:14 AM PDT by thegagline

The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman’s anti-GOP motives***

The House Judiciary Committee, *** 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,” ***Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) ***

Shortly after Hodgkinson’s June 14, 2017, attack on a Republican practice session for the congressional baseball game in suburban Alexandria, Va., the FBI wrote up an executive intelligence briefing that concluded he wanted to commit “suicide by cop.”

*** “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.”

But congressional investigators have since found evidence that the bureau concealed information from the public that would have undermined its initial “suicide by cop” conclusion.

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

*** 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.”

“The guy had a hit list in his pocket,” Jordan said. “[Former FBI director James] Comey, [former FBI deputy director Andrew] McCabe, [former FBI director Christopher] Wray, they all knew it was domestic terrorism, but that didn’t fit their narrative.”

***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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In a just world, everyone who was involved in the cover-up should be put up against a wall. The attempted mass assassination did not fit the narrative that the greatest threat to democracy is right-wing extremism.
1 posted on 05/06/2025 8:41:14 AM PDT by thegagline
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2 posted on 05/06/2025 8:42:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Marxists who want to sow fear and demoralization have ALWAYS used the “mentally-ill lone wolf” over the last 60 years.


3 posted on 05/06/2025 8:43:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: thegagline

On purpose for political gain.

When do we get to the arrests part?


4 posted on 05/06/2025 8:47:36 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (“Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here I am! Send me.")
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There is always this bland “The FBI” concealed this, the Secret Service “didn’t find that”. But they never seek to find out who and fire them. So the FBI concealed evidence, altered statements etc. Well, who was that somebody? Who ordered it done? Who concurred” Who did it? Who typed it out? Who made the report? Why aren’t they fired? It may not be criminal, but it certainly fireable.

Start finding out the who’s and getting rid of them. They are corrupt and don’t change with the political appointees. They are the long term FBI agents who are corrupt.


5 posted on 05/06/2025 8:50:43 AM PDT by Eastern Shore Virginian (Yea, I sometimes gild the lily.)
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When do we get to the arrests part?

Right after they release the Epstein files and extensive video library, or never—whichever comes first.

6 posted on 05/06/2025 8:50:58 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell.)
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I am sure the guy who shot Pres. Trump was also mentally ill lone wolf.


7 posted on 05/06/2025 8:52:53 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Eastern Shore Virginian

Agree, get the authors names and fire them.


8 posted on 05/06/2025 8:53:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: thegagline

The FBI is a failed institution and needs to be razed. And I agree with your solution, too.


9 posted on 05/06/2025 8:55:22 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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Fire them? The last word they should hear is the word Fire at the Navy yard.

Stop pussy footing around. They are in the Executive Branch, the EXService, the FBI, some of the other investigative services, the legislature, and the courts. They are not obstructionists or even seditionists, they are outright criminal communists. McCarthy tried to tell us and that was when the rot was controllable. Now it is spread to the point of needing extreme surgery. We are barely on life support as a nation. We are kidding ourselves if we think we got 3+ more years, the midterms can take away the bare majority we have and that includes RINOs.


10 posted on 05/06/2025 9:02:16 AM PDT by Mouton (There is a new sheriff and deputy in town to now!)
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STILL WAITING.

What about the most recent cover-up of Trump assassination attempt?

We are nearly TEN MONTHS in.

Why is there radio silence?


11 posted on 05/06/2025 9:08:06 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Botched? The word suggests error. No, it was not botched. It was propaganda.


12 posted on 05/06/2025 9:13:02 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

13 posted on 05/06/2025 9:17:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Consequences beyond a strongly worded letter?


14 posted on 05/06/2025 9:32:54 AM PDT by glorgau
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“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,” ***Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) ***

15 posted on 05/06/2025 9:36:24 AM PDT by GOPJ (Judicial robes aren't invisibility cloaks that allows judges to engage in criminal acts. J Turley)
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Boy, this is going to upset the FReeper Kash haters.


16 posted on 05/06/2025 9:45:12 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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17 posted on 05/06/2025 9:45:31 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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Are you volunteering to go down there and help?


18 posted on 05/06/2025 9:46:29 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: bray

The House Judiciary Committee did the heavy lifting and teed it up for Kash and Bondi.

The remaining question is whether those two can swing at the ball without whiffing.


19 posted on 05/06/2025 9:57:22 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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The FBI botched “

They did not “botch it”. They covered it up


20 posted on 05/06/2025 10:11:47 AM PDT by iamgalt
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