House Intel Committee Releases Report on the FBI’s Conclusions on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting

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House Intel Committee Releases Report on the FBI’s Conclusions on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting​

House Intel Committee Releases Report on the FBI’s Conclusions on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting​ Share on Facebook Share on X Print this Page Share by Email​ Washington, May 6, 2025 Tags: Oversight & Investigations WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01), released a majority staff report assessing the FBI’s analytic integrity and investigative standards with respect to the 2017 Congressional Baseball Shooting targeting Republican Members of Congress. This report was developed from the 3,000-page FBI case file provided by Director Patel for Committee review, and lays out the Committee’s conclusion that, under Acting Director Andrew McCabe in 2017, the FBI used false statements, manipulation of known facts, and biased and butchered analysis to support a narrative that shooter James Hodgkinson committed suicide by cop without any nexus to domestic terrorism. As outlined in the report, the Committee observed that: The FBI investigation failed to substantively interview the shooting victims and other eyewitnesses. The FBI investigation failed to develop a comprehensive timeline of events. The FBI case file was improperly classified, which may have assisted FBI in obfuscating substandard investigative efforts and analysis. Key Takeaways Prior to gathering and reviewing all evidence, the FBI predetermined James Hodgkinson’s motives were “suicide by cop,” a conclusion that is inconsistent with the facts and evidence. The FBI case file makes clear this case 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. In its press release, the FBI withheld information from the American public that would have undermined its “suicide by cop” narrative, including that there were no uniformed police present when the shooting occurred, that the FBI had handwritten notes demonstrating Hodgkinson’s political thoughts and motivations, the FBI had 15 photos taken by Hodgkinson took two months prior when he was casing the baseball practice field. The FBI’s cherry-picking on what to disclose or not to disclose to substantiate a conclusion demonstrates politicization and lack of objectivity that the Committee has observed in other IC analytic products for high-profile cases. With no new information, the FBI changed its determination from “suicide by cop” to domestic violent extremism in 2021..... ============================================== The FBI fail to tell the public the shooter had a list of 6 Republicans that he want to kill. They said it wasn't politically motivated. Clearly they did not want the shooting to reflect badly on the Democrats.