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Josh Hawley @HawleyMO Tweeted Feb 1, 2022: In a closed door hearing this morning on the Islamic terrorist attack against the Jewish synagogue in Texas, FBI assistant director repeatedly refused to acknowledge the FBI was wrong jn failing to call the attack what it was - terrorism directed against Jewish Americans.Feb 1, 2022 Why is this difficult? Why can’t the FBI acknowledge Islamic terrorism when they see it. And why are they even now defending their original asinine comments saying the attack was “not related to” the Jewish community.

What happened to the FBI? ... The FBI’s Dallas division’s special agent in charge, Matthew DeSarno, described the gunman to the press as “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” I don’t blame SAC DeSarno — a former colleague — for this disbelieve-your-lying-eyes assessment. He takes his orders from FBI headquarters. And we exist in woke times. Yes, sometimes investigations take time, and we don’t want to release inaccurate information. Yet this was a ground ball. The White House asserted the FBI’s course correction a day later, allowing that, of course, the...