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Posted on 06/22/2017 1:16:16 PM PDT by detective
James Hodgkinson's assault on Republican members of Congress was the most serious political assassination in decades. And yet at the same time it was wrapped up by the Capitol Police.
There was really little for the FBI to do here. Hodgkinson's motives were fairly clear. He had a list of names of targets. His social media was filled with rants against Republicans. A witness describes him studying the area of his future attack. According to Rep. DeSantis, he asked if the players were Republicans or Democrats.
This is about as open and shut as anything gets. All the FBi had to do was go through his laptop and phone to confirm that he hadn't been coordinating with anyone else. Except the FBI instead decided to treat Hodgkinson as if he were a Muslim terrorist. And by that I mean launch into a cover-up of his motives.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
http://wtop.com/alexandria/2017/06/former-alexandria-mayor-met-congressional-gunman-at-local-ymca/
Exactly. And well-stated.
“All the news that’s fit to print for up-and-coming assassins.”
The FBI is looking like fools to most of the country.
This is a perfect cartoon opportunity, with all the evidence piled around the FBI, and the FBI saying “Just a spontaneous act”.
Yes, indeedy! The NY Times, famous also for leaking national security secrets.
Wow! Thanks.
I’ll dig in.
Wow! Article speaks volumes!
“At this point in the investigation, it appears more spontaneous,” Slater said.
Hodgkinson had a piece of paper with the names of six members of Congress written on it, Slater said, but the note lacked any further context and there was no evidence from his computer, phone or other belongings that indicated he planned to target those officials. Slater declined to name the officials whose names were on the note or say whether they were Republicans or Democrats or were at the baseball practice.
In April, Hogkinson made the tourist rounds in Washington, visiting monuments, museums, the U.S. Capitol and the Dirksen Senate Office Building and taking pictures, the FBI said. He also took pictures of the baseball field where he would later fire more than 60 shots.
“The FBI does not believe that these photographs represented surveillance of intended targets,” the FBI said in a statement.
So the working theory here is that Hodgkinson just stocked up on firepower, for no apparent reason, took photos of the baseball field because it was so picturesque, had a list of members of Congress for no apparent reason, and then randomly and spontaneously opened fire while he happened to be carrying a rifle and touring local baseball fields?
That hit list? It’s just a piece of paper.
Timothy Slater, special agent in charge of the criminal division for the Washington field office, would not classify it as a hit list, saying it was only “a piece of paper.”
“If you look at his pattern of life and what he was doing on his laptop and social media accounts, there was no indication that that was a list to target or that there were any threats associated with those names on the list,” Slater said.
It just happened to be a piece of paper in his weapons locker.
Authorities found the list in a storage locker Hodgkinson had rented in Alexandria, Virgina, since April. Inside, they also found 200 rounds of ammunition, a laptop, a receipt from a gun purchase in November 2016 and SKS rifle components
Just a piece of paper.
That morning, Hodgkinson used Google Maps to search for a route from Alexandria to his home in Belleville. He also ran a Google search for the “2017 Republican Convention,”
Spontaneous. The official FBI release whitewashes his social media postings.
Items found on Hodgkinson included a piece of paper that contained the names of six members of Congress. No context was included on this paper, however, a review of Hodgkinson’s web searches in the months prior to the shooting revealed only a cursory search of two of those members of Congress. A second document with a rough sketch of several streets in Washington, D.C. was found on Hodgkinson; however, it was not deemed to be of investigative significance.
Not much seems to be. Also there seems to be a discrepancy here as to whether the list was on him or in his locker.
They treat a DIMocRAT terrorist lightly.
I hope this swamp is drained soon!!!
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The FBI is one part of the federal government that will blindly follow orders and murder women, children and babies. Understand that, and you understand the American Gestapo FBI.
The SS were elite troops and not a police force - you’re thinking of the Gestapo a political police force, in some respects worse that the SS.
The FBI doesn’t have time for this open-and-shut case, they’re too busy unvestigating the Seth Rich murder.
“We think they were not planning the 9-11 attack in the last few months, because they stopped putting violent threats on social media in the last few months.”
Choose one:
Faking Bogus Investigations
Famous But Incompetent.
(Dear FBI: We invite you to join in and opine.)
What do you expect them to do?
The only thing I can see is going after the wife. She claims to have known nothing, which is hard for many to believe.
Proving she had knowledge though would be difficult.
When I was in the 5th grade a friend told me it stood for Female Body Inspector.
That’s pretty childish though.
How could someone who can’t find their own arse with both hands qualify for that kind of work?
This begs the question. If the shooter was asking if they were Republicans or Democrats playing on the field, how did the shooter know they were either? When I see people playing baseball, I would never ask someone in the vicinity if they were “Republicans or Democrats”.
How did he know politicians were playing on that field? Did anyone ask? Are they not curious if he was tipped off by that 3/2017 article from the NYT?
Did the cops not investigate how the shooter knew high profile people were playing on the field?
I find this a bit outrageous.
Yup. List of names in pocket..........spontaneous!
!. Investigate his contacts with the many violent left wing groups he belonged to.
2. Investigate his extensive target practice near his home in Illinois shortly before he left his wife and home to travel to the DC area and spend several months there.
3. Develop a time line of his activities over the past year.
4. Develop a detailed time line of all his activities since he arrived in the DC area.
5. Determine why he was surveilling the baseball practice field and several other locations.
6. Review all his on line contacts.
7. Investigate his on line contacts and connections, the groups he belonged to and the several hundred people who liked him on Facebook.
8. Investigate his role in the Sanders campaign and his many contacts during that campaign.
9. Investigate his role in the “Occupy” movement and his contacts from that movement.
10. Investigate his wife and her activities and contacts.
11. Determine how he was able to choose the baseball practice when many influential Republican lawmakers would be together in public with minimal security for his assassination attempt.
12. Investigate the unusual and highly suspect relationship with his child and foster child. One ran away from home. The other supposedly poured gasoline all over herself and set herself on fire. Investigate what really happened.
How did he know politicians were playing on that field?”
Hodgkinson knew about the time and place of the baseball practice. It was a unique opportunity when many influential Republicans would be in public in one place with minimal security.
His question about whether they were Democrats or Republicans was just verifying the information he already knew.
Hodgkinson had taken numerous surveillance photographs of the little known field two months before the shooting.
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